Frederick Law Olmsted Designing The American Landscape

Frederick Law Olmsted Designing The American Landscape
Written by Charles E. Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau, edited and designed by David Larkin.
Frederick Law Olmsted was a man of passionate vision and drive, an American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture. He was famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including New York’s Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Biltmore Estate, and many others. Olmsted created the first park system, urban greenways, and planned suburban residential communities. He was a pivotal figure in the movement to create and preserve natural parks such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Niagara Falls.
This timely volume presents the breadth of Olmsted’s work in beautiful color photographs.