Fredrick Law Olmsted: Designing America
Movies & TV / DVD
UPC: 841887021524 / Publisher: PBS (Direct), July 2014
Explores the life and career of landscape design pioneer Frederick Law Olmsted.
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"Frederick Law Olmsted was among the first to regard landscape architecture as a profession and a fine art ? in fact, with Calvert Vaux he virtually created that profession. To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted?s efforts to preserve nature created an ?environmental ethic? decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics."
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