Archive for May, 2020
Dan Kiley
Monday, May 18, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback
Dan Kiley Jane Amidon University of Georgia Press in association with LALH Forthcoming A volume in the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series Visionary landscape architect and city planner, Dan Kiley (1912-2004) exerted a foundational, lasting influence on the shape of the American landscape in the second half of the twentieth century. […]
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NEW RELEASE: Robert Royston
Saturday, May 16, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback
LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of Robert Royston by Reuben M. Rainey and JC Miller, the fourth volume in the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. The first biography of the landscape architect Robert Royston (1918-2008) documents the life and work of a designer and teacher who […]
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NEW RELEASE: The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore
Saturday, May 16, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback
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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NEW RELEASE: Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners
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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LALH AT MODERNISM WEEK IN PALM SPRINGS, FEBRUARY 13-23, 2020
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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Laurie Olin: Essays
Monday, May 11, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback
Laurie Olin: Essays 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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Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect
Friday, May 8, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback
Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect 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 to lecture in […]
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Beauty of the Wild
Thursday, May 7, 2020 | Posted by Sarah Allaback
Beauty of the Wild 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. Growing up on a small farm in […]
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LEGACY HERO: Jack Dangermond, Redlands, California (2019)
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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