Simo, Melanie
100 Years of Landscape Architecture. Some Patterns of a Century.
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Seller ID: 1091 Washington, D. C.: ASLA Press, 1999. First edition (374 pp.). Large 4to (32cm x 29cm) in pictorial dust wrapper (a nick and a few scratches), fine black cloth with impressed design, silver gilt titles to spine. SIGNED by ASLA President Barry L. Starke and ten past presidents of the ASLA (Stone, Woener, Neal, Martensen, Bennett, Man, Otsuji, Leslie, Dunbar, Schach) and several medalists (Osmundson, Lewis, Zube, Fabos, Stone). Eight chapters on the rise and development of the practice of landscape design are illustrated by more than 100 full-page b&w and colour plates showing a hundred years' worth of projects and installations (beginning, of course, with a photo of Olmsted and Vaux sauntering in Central Park). A splendid retrospective. Price: $350.00
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