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Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States.
Aug 24, 2024 · Frederick Law Olmsted (born April 26, 1822, Hartford, Conn., U.S.—died Aug. 28, 1903, Brookline, Mass.) was an American landscape architect who designed a succession of outstanding public parks, beginning with Central Park in New York City.
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Apr 26, 2022 · Frederick Law Olmsted, best known for Central Park, was America’s most influential landscape architect. His ideas about the importance of public parks still resonate on his 200th birthday this year.
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In 1874, Frederick Law Olmsted was charged with devising a comprehensive landscape scheme for the U.S. Capitol. Olmsted's major concern was the visual presentation of the Capitol Building and the support of its daily functions.
A timeline chronicling Frederick Law Olmsted’s rise and tenure as the most sought-after landscape architect in the United States, together with his creation of the Olmsted firm.
Frederick Law Olmsted came to the profession of landscape architecture late in his career. For thirty years after 1837 he served as an administrator-first of New York's Central Park, then of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and finally of the Mariposa Mining Company in California.
Olmsteds and ASLA. ASLA 1951. Olmsted Archives. Frederick Law Olmsted was the first person to use the title "Landscape Architect" in his work with Calvert Vaux on the 1857 design for Central Park. In Brookline, Massachusetts, Olmsted and his sons created the first full-scale office for the practice of landscape architecture, including distinct ...
