Archive for May, 2020

LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore by Ethan Carr.  In the mid-nineteenth century, Thoreau recognized the importance of preserving the complex and fragile landscape of Cape Cod, with its weathered windmills, expansive beaches, dunes, wetlands, and harbors, […]

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Saturday, May 16, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback

LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners by Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein. When Sidney J. Hare (1860–1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888–1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture […]

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Saturday, May 16, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback

Four LALH Authors Featured in MW Landscape + Outdoor Living Program The American Garden at Midcentury In the 1930s, American landscape architects began experimenting with designs that would give their clients easy access to outdoor spaces where they could relax and socialize informally. Especially in California, these designs served as extensions of interior spaces. LALH […]

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Monday, May 11, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback

Essays on Landscape Laurie Olin Forthcoming Published by the Library of American Landscape History Cloth       One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the grounds of the Washington Monument, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and Bryant Park in New York City. His […]

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Friday, May 8, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback

Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect for the Motor Age Sarah Allaback Forthcoming Fall, 2021 Published by the Library of American Landscape History Cloth       Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954) was the first woman landscape architect to design state parks, the first to plan the landscape of a federally funded housing project, and the first […]

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Thursday, May 7, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback

Beauty of the Wild: A Life Designing Landscapes Inspired by Nature Darrel Morrison Forthcoming, Summer 2021 Published by the Library of American Landscape History Cloth       In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. […]

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Thursday, May 7, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback

LEGACY HERO: Jack Dangermond, Redlands, California (2019) In the last decades of the twentieth century, the mapping and spatial analytics software created by Jack Dangermond and the company he founded, Esri, transformed the professions of landscape architecture and urban and regional planning. Through his Redlands, California, firm and its suite of geographic information system (GIS) […]

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