CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE REDUX

CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE REDUX

Gakugei-Shuppansha has published a Japanese edition of A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. This is the first foreign edition of the book, which was published by Scribner in 1999. Thanks to Mr. Hiroki Hiramatsu for...

OFF LIMITS

Andrés Duany takes issue in Architectural Record with Michael Sorkin’s review of Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents. But the problem with a compilation of 20 essays by many different authors is that it rarely presents a coherent argument, so almost anything you...

WAMO

An international competition for the Washington Monument Grounds has attracted more than 500 participants, and the announcement of the six finalists from as far afield as Korea and the Netherlands has garnered attention in the architectural media. The competition is...

The Olmsted Legacy

If The Olmsted Legacy, a one-hour documentary on the great landscape architect is playing in your area don’t miss it. It includes interviews with many Olmsted scholars (including yours truly) and is an excellent introduction to a man who influenced not only the...