by Carlisle | Dec 16, 2012 | Carlisle Flowers
Students, your take-home exam, the final for this semester is as follows: write a five page paper on the best landscape architect there ever was in the United States. In my unbiased view, the answer is Frederick Law Olmsted. Your assignment is to explain how his...
by Carlisle | Nov 11, 2010 | Carlisle Flowers
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, his partner, did not plan to have a structure in Central Park. Structures were to be subservient to nature but they modified their original plan and built a terrace, the central staircase that lead to the park’s only...
by Carlisle | Nov 10, 2010 | Carlisle Flowers
“No great city can long exist without great suburbs,” said Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., the designer of Sudbrook Park, a suburb of Baltimore County, MD. The 204 acre estate of James Howard McHenry was one of three still surviving residential designs of...
by Carlisle | Mar 17, 2010 | Carlisle Flowers
American artists Mike and Doug Starn (born 1961) have been invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening to the public on April 27. The identical twin brothers will present Big...
