Ethan Carr
Ethan Carr, FASLA, LALH vice president, is a nationally recognized landscape historian and preservationist specializing in the public landscape of the United States. He has helped redefine the scholarship on American national parks and modern landscape design through his books Wilderness by Design, which won an American Society of Landscape Architects honor award, and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma, which received the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award from the Society of Architectural Historians and the J. B. Jackson Award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. He is editor of the LALH series Designing the American Park; author of The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore and Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City; coauthor, with Rolf Diamant, of Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea; and coeditor of Volume 8 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.