Tuesday / March 08, 2022 / 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Architects of an American Landscape: Richardson and Olmsted
Online
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Hugh Howard will discuss his new book, Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America's Public and Private Spaces, a dual portrait of Olmsted, America's first landscape designer and first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and their immense impact on the United States.
Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest landscape architect and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and the grounds of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, as well as the preservation of Yosemite Park and Niagara Falls. His close friend and sometime collaborator, Henry Hobson Richardson, has not been as widely recognized despite his outsized influence on American architecture, from Boston's Trinity Church to Chicago's Glessner House and Marshall Field Wholesale Warehouse. Howard reveals how these two men created original, all-American idioms in architecture and landscape that influence how we enjoy our public and private spaces to this day.
To purchase the book, visit Bookshop. The program will be recorded, and all attendees will receive a link afterwards which will remain active for seven days.
TICKETS:
- $10
- members of AIA Chicago use coupon code AIACHICAGO
- members of IL-ASLA use coupon code IL-ASLA
- members of Glessner House
- $12 non-members
