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Library of American Landscape History BOOKS AND FILMS • SPRING/SUMMER 2017 lalh.org CONTENTS Introduction 6 FORTHCOMING Lawrence Halprin Kenneth I. Helphand 7 Ellen Shipman and the American Garden Judith B. Tankard 8 BACKLIST Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner Edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback 9 James Rose Dean Cardasis 10 Ruth Shellhorn Kelly Comras 11 Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South William E. O’Brien 12 Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815–1852 David Schuyler 13 John Nolen: Landscape Architect and City Planner R. Bruce Stephenson 14 Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape Elizabeth Hope Cushing 15 The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System Francis R. Kowsky 16 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts Keith N. Morgan, Elizabeth Hope Cushing, and Roger G. Reed 17 A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era Robin Karson 18 A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens Susan L. Klaus 19 Graceland Cemetery: A Design History Christopher Vernon 20 The Native Landscape Reader Edited by Robert E. Grese 21 Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma Ethan Carr 22 Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker’s Life, 1885–1971 Robin Karson 23 Design in the Little Garden Fletcher Steele 24 2 Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston’s Mount Auburn Cemetery Blanche M. G. Linden 25 Henry Shaw’s Victorian Landscapes: The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park Carol Grove 26 A World of Her Own Making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the Landscape of Reynolda Catherine Howett 27 Midwestern Landscape Architecture Edited by William H. Tishler 28 Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England Frederick Law Olmsted 29 The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in a Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning, Charles A. Platt, and Ellen Biddle Shipman Robin Karson 30 ASLA CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES Landscape for Living Garret Eckbo 31 New Towns for Old John Nolen 32 Landscape-Gardening O. C. Simonds 33 Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening Robert Morris Copeland 34 The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening Wilhelm Miller 35 The Art of Landscape Architecture Samuel Parsons Jr. 36 Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West; with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains H. W. S. Cleveland 37 The Spirit of the Garden Martha Brookes Hutcheson 38 Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect Charles W. Eliot 39 Book of Landscape Gardening Frank A. Waugh 40 AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 41 DESIGNING THE AMERICAN PARK SERIES 44 Edited by Ethan Carr CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN SERIES 45 Edited by Daniel J. Nadenicek 3 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS CENTENNIAL REPRINT SERIES 46 NORTH AMERICA BY DESIGN FILM SERIES 47 Fletcher Steele and Naumkeag: A Playground of the Imagination 48 Designing in the Prairie Spirit: A Conversation with Darrel Morrison 49 The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System 50 Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts 51 Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California 52 4 Library of American Landscape History is the leading publisher of books that advance the study and practice of American landscape architecture—from gardens and parks to city plans. LALH books educate the public, motivating stewardship of significant places and the environment, and they inspire new designs that connect people with nature. LALH is a publicly supported charitable organization with 501 (c) (3) status. Your gifts support the LALH publishing program. Please call for information (413) 549-4860. Visit lalh.org LALH Board of Directors LALH Advisers Daniel J. Nadenicek, ASLA, President George W. Curry, FASLA Athens, Ga. State University of New York, Syracuse Ethan Carr, FASLA, Vice President Julius Gy. Fabos, FASLA Amherst, Mass. Professor emeritus, University of Shannon Hackett, Treasurer Massachusetts Amherst New York, N.Y. Robert E. Grese Barbara Shear, Clerk University of Michigan New York, N.Y. Kenneth I. Helphand, FASLA Craig Barrow III University of Oregon Savannah, Georgia Francis R. Kowsky Dede Delaney SUNY/Buffalo Windham, Conn. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, OC, FCSLA, Cynthia A. Hewitt FASLA, BCSLA Yorklyn, Del. Vancouver, B.C. 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(413) 549-3961 fax 5 INTRODUCTION Library of American Landscape History, the topics related to landscapes and their design, only not-for-profit organization devoted to pub- all of which are chosen for their relevance in lishing books on the history of the North Amer- the field today and their contribution to the his- ican landscape, was founded in 1992 to advance torical record. In April 2016, LALH launched its scholarship in the field of landscape studies. new Masters of Modern Landscape Design series Since then, LALH has developed dozens of with Ruth Shellhorn, the first of many volumes books, as well as touring exhibitions, films, and that will explore significant figures in American other online resources featuring North Ameri- landscape design, providing missing chapters in ca’s rich and varied landscape. In 2011, LALH our history and establishing a new understand- com pleted the ASLA Centennial Reprint series, ing of the historical context and basis of land- a collection of ten classic volumes selected for scape design practice today. their impact on the history of landscape design. As the LALH catalog demonstrates, the les- LALH is building two groundbreaking book sons of early practitioners continue to provide series—Critical Studies in the History of Envi- insight into the development of design solu tions ronmental Design, in partnership with the for the twenty-first century as well as the preser- University of Georgia Press, and Designing the vation of historic landscapes. The books featured American Park, with the University of Massa- in LALH’s catalog reflect its mission—to advance chusetts Press—which extend our understand- the study and practice of American landscape ing of landscape architecture by focusing on architecture, motivate stewardship of significant public spaces and social issues. Other mono- places and the environment, and inspire new graphs published by LALH address a range of designs that connect people with nature. 6 FORTHCOMING Lawrence Halprin Kenneth I. Helphand LAWRENCE HALPRIN A volume in the series Masters of Modern Landscape Design November 2017 University of Georgia Press in association with LALH A Bruce and Georgia McEver Fund for the Arts and Environment Publication Paperback $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-8203-5207-7 To order: University of Georgia Press tel. 1-800-848-6224 KENNETH I. HELPHAND During a career spanning six decades, Lawrence Halprin used his conception of a Sierra stream Halprin (1916–2009) became one of the most as the catalyst for the Portland (Oregon) Open prolific and outspoken landscape architects of Space Sequence, a series of parks featuring great his generation. He took on challenging new fountains that linked housing and civic space in project types, developing a multidisciplinary the inner city. practice that experimented with adaptive reuse A charismatic speaker and passionate artist, and ecological design in relation to shopping Halprin designed landscapes that reflected the malls, the freeway, and urban renewal. In his democratic and participatory ethic characteris- lifelong effort to improve the American land- tic of his era. He communicated his ideas as well scape, Halprin celebrated the creative process as in lectures, books, exhibits, and performances, a form of social activism. and he consulted on important urban commis- A native New Yorker, Halprin earned degrees sions throughout the country. Along with his from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin contemporary Ian McHarg, Halprin was his gen- before completing his design degree at Harvard. eration’s great proselytizer for landscape archi- In 1945, he joined Thomas Church’s firm, where tecture as environmental design. Throughout he collaborated on the iconic Donnell Garden. his long career, he strived to develop poetic and Halprin opened his own San Francisco office in symbolic landscapes that, in his words, could 1949. Halprin’s firm initially focused on residen- “articulate a culture’s most spiritual values.” tial commissions in the Bay Area, completing close to three hundred in its inaugural decade. “Lawrence Halprin will be enormously useful to By the 1960s, the firm had gained recognition teachers and students of landscape architecture for significant urban renewal projects such as around the world, as well as attractive to pro- Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco (1962–68), fessional landscape architects, architects, urban Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis (1962–67), and designers, and the educated public.” Freeway Park in Seattle (1970–74). In 1965, —Laurie Olin, FASLA 7 FORTHCOMING Ellen Shipman and the American Garden ELLEN SHIPMAN Judith B.