Category: Landscape Architecture & Design

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Olmsted firm had an outsized influence on campus design, undertaking more than 400 commissions over a period of 100 years. In 2021, experts and practitioners examined this fertile field in a national conference recorded on C-SPAN.

Seven key principles shaped Frederick Law Olmsted’s work.

Throughout his career, Frederick Law Olmsted created hundreds of works of landscape architecture. But his legacy goes far beyond these built masterworks.

Learn more about the design of the Stanford University in the late 19th Century.

John Olmsted explores Frederick Law Olmsted's design principles through a psychological lens.

Olmsted 200 has inspired a renewal of interest in Olmsted parks and places— and the principles behind them. This post showcases a sampling of the many magnificent investments that dedicated communities are making in their landscapes across the country.

Frederick Law Olmsted's legacy is an important one for landscape students in Taiwan. In this blog, the author explores how they can benefit from learning more about his life before Central Park.

Thanks to the diligent research of Elizabeth Hodder, visitors to Bar Harbor’s Ogden Point can learn about the property’s rich history and ongoing efforts to restore the Olmsted design. The history of the property is well-documented, coming alive through correspondence.

In New York City, a historically underserved borough is slated to receive a new vibrant and healthful open space. 

In honor of Olmsted 200 and the upcoming 150th anniversary of public parks in Japan, Ryosuke Kondo compares Tokyo's Hibiya Park and New York City's Central Park.

Olmsted Parks Conservancy is soliciting proposals (RFP) from consultant teams to provide professional services for Beargrass Preserve, a 25-acre tract situated in the Alta Vista neighborhood adjacent to historic Cherokee Park and the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Frederick Law Olmsted was landscape architect for the US Capitol Grounds. To mark the bicentennial, the USCHS is offering a special Olmsted calendar and Olmsted ornament.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903) is one of my favorite figures in American history. Not only was he the nation’s pre-eminent landscape architect, but he made significant contributions as an author, conservationist, abolitionist, and social reformer. Frederick Law Olmsted and his sons–the Olmsted Brothers–had important ties with Chicago that are often overlooked.  At 6:00 p.m., […]

Moraine Farm (Project No. 12297) in North Beverly, Massachusetts, is a remarkable but not well-known property, retaining much of the ambiance and character that Frederick Law Olmsted intended for this private commission 140 years ago. That it has retained so much of its integrity over the decades is due to the wise and committed stewardship […]

Service must precede art, since all turf, trees, flowers, fences, walks, water, paint, plaster, posts and pillars in or under which there is not a purpose of direct utility or service are inartistic if not barbarous…So long as consideration of utility are neglected or overridden by considerations of ornament, there will be no true art. […]