Sat 8/6 @ 1PM
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) basically created the field known as landscape architecture. Most famously, he and his partner designed Central Park, along with many other parks, including the two flanking Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood: Washington Park and Jackson Park (where the Obama Presidential Center is currently under construction.) In Hyde Park he also designed the main ground of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition as well as the campus of the University of Chicago. He worked on numerous other campuses as well including Stanford, Berkeley, Smith, Wellesley, Yale, Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke. His work created urban environments across the country from Boston to Portland, Oregon.
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth, historian/filmmaker Laurence Cotton, who was originator/consulting producer on the 2014 PBS special Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, will be at the Cleveland History Center of the Western Reserve Historical Society to delve into Olmsted’s multi-faceted life and career, which includes stints as a journalist and public administrator in “Bringing Nature to the City.”
Laurence will share Olmsted’s influences and a visual tour of the landscapes he designed, as well as those of his two sons who followed in his footsteps and the Olmsted Bros. firm. (His on, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., designed the Fine Arts Garden at the south end of the Cleveland Museum of Art.)
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