WORMSLOE PLANTATION NAMED ONE OF “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES IN ALL 50 STATES”
House Beautiful recently named Wormsloe Plantation, the ancestral home of LALH Preservation Hero Craig Barrow III, to its 2016 list of most beautiful places. Two years ago, LALH featured Wormsloe in a VIEWarticle honoring Barrow, who is also co-founder of the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History. The historic plantation on the Isle of Hope near […]
RUTH SHELLHORN: MIDCENTURY LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WINS BEST FILM AWARD AT THE MODESTO ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
The short documentary, based on the book by Kelly Comras and produced by LALH in association with Florentine Films/Hott Productions, won top honors at the 9th Annual Modesto Architecture Festival. […]
RUTH SHELLHORN WINS AWARD
ASLA’s Southern California Chapter presented an honor award to Kelly Comras for Ruth Shellhorn (LALH 2016), the lead book in the LALH Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. The award ceremony was held at the Disney Grand California Hotel, near Disneyland, one of Shellhorn’s major landscape design projects. […]
FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL.… LALH TO PUBLISH A NEW SHIPMAN EDITION
In early September, LALH asked members to help fund a new edition of The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of our first books. Thanks to dozens of generous donors, we reached our goal of $15,000! The new edition will feature an expansive new design, many previously undocumented gardens, and new color photographs. Sure to […]
ORDER LALH BOOKS FROM OUR FALL/WINTER 2016–2017 ONLINE CATALOG
The new catalog features forthcoming LALH titles as well as our backlist, with news of recent awards. Download the catalog from our website: https://lalh.org/books/ […]
HELP US PUBLISH A NEW BOOK!
HELP US PUBLISH A NEW BOOK! A New Edition of The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman The revised edition of the 1997 classic work by Judith B. Tankard will cover newly discovered gardens, in a larger format with an expansive new design, illustrated with new color photographs. Read more. . . . Donations above $100 will […]
NEW NATURE ARTICLE: “GENIUSES OF PLACE”
LALH vice-president Ethan Carr celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of Capability Brown’s birth and the centenary of the National Park Service (with help from Frederick Law Olmsted) in an article exploring “the complex and evolving cultural construction of ‘nature,’ its representations, its manifestations and its benefits.” Read More […]
NEW EXHIBITION: “THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OF HARE & HARE”
The father-and-son team of Sidney J. and S. Herbert Hare planned dozens of parks, residential grounds, and cities throughout the Midwest and beyond. A new exhibition at Ellis Library, University of Missouri, organized by LALH author Carol Grove, celebrates the significance of the Kansas-city based firm with material from the manuscript collection of the State […]
SHIPMANIA!
When The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman appeared in 1997, practically no one had heard of the Cornish-based garden designer, but soon “Shipmania” seized the landscape history world. Marveling at the impossibly lush flower borders of this self-taught practitioner–who was also a divorced mother of three–new audiences bought the book in droves. Long out of […]
PRESERVATION HEROES: JEAN AND W. SCOTT PETERSON
When Jean and W. Scott Peterson purchased Tranquillity Farm in the 1980s, they understood that the Middlebury, Connecticut, property would be a challenge to steward, yet they appreciated the singular beauty of their twenty-five acres and all that it could become. Since then they have restored the ornamental farm’s rich cultural legacy, which includes designs […]
VIEW 2016 MAILS IN JUNE
VIEW 2016 will arrive in the mailboxes of LALH members early this summer. This issue features articles on Ruth Shellhorn’s legacy, the Los Angeles landscape architecture firm Mia Lehrer + Associates, the James Rose Center, Warren Manning’s environmental design methods, A J. Downing’s enduring influence, and many other subjects. If you’re not a member, join […]
NEW LALH ADVISERS
LALH is honored to have Robert E. Grese and Francis R. Kowsky join us as advisers. A professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan and director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, Bob is the author of The Native Landscape Reader (LALH 2011) and the biographer of Jens Jensen. Frank Kowsky, SUNY Distinguished […]
NOW SHOWING: RUTH SHELLHORN: MIDCENTURY LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The latest LALH film, Ruth Shellhorn, is now available online! Based on the scholarship from Kelly Comras’s book, the new film tells the story of the modernist landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn and her contribution to the “Southern California experience.” Like other films in the North America by Design series, Ruth Shellhorn was produced by LALH […]
NEW RELEASE: RUTH SHELLHORN
LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of Kelly Comras’s Ruth Shellhorn, the first volume in the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. “Kelly Comras’s book on Ruth Shellhorn will, at long last, put her in proper perspective as an important pioneer in landscape design and planning in California. […]
SHELLHORN: SNEAK PREVIEW
From the Library of American Landscape History and UGA Press Take an early look at the forthcoming book and documentary film on modernist landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn. To preview the book: About the book: Available April 1, 2016 Ruth Shellhorn by Kelly Comras This is the first book to examine the work of this modernist […]
LALH BOOK WINS J.B. JACKSON PRIZE
The Foundation for Landscape Studies has awarded the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize to John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner by R. Bruce Stephenson. […]
JOHN NOLEN’S ADVICE OFFERED TO ORLANDO PLANNERS
Planners Could Use Highway Makeover to Design a More Humane Orlando Op-ed, Next City January 19, 2016 The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is overseeing “I-4 Ultimate,” a $2.1 billion “makeover” of a 21-mile stretch of a busy freeway that runs through downtown Orlando. The agency claims adding lanes and re-engineering interchanges will improve the economy while […]