Midwestern landscape architecture / edited by William H. Tishler.

Title & Author:

Midwestern landscape architecture / edited by William H. Tishler.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Shaping America's heartland / William H. Tishler -- Adolph Strauch : Cincinnati and the legacy of Spring Grove Cemetery / Noël Dorsey Vernon -- Horace Cleveland : the Cleveland years / William H. Tishler -- Frederick Law Olmsted : designing for democracy in the Midwest / Victoria Post Ranney -- William Le Baron Jenney and Chicago's West Parks : from prairie to pleasure grounds / Reuben M. Rainey -- Ossian Cole Simonds : conservation ethic in the prairie style / Julia Sniderman Bachrach -- George Edward Kessler : landscape architect of the American Renaissance / Kurt Culbertson -- Jens Jensen : the landscape architect as conservationist / Robert E. Grese -- Warren H. Manning and his Minnesota clients : developing a national practice in a landscape of resources, 1898-1919 / Lance M. Neckar -- The Olmsted brothers in the Midwest : naturalism, formalism, and the city beautiful movement / William W. Tippens -- Wilhelm Miller : prairie spirit in landscape gardening / Christopher Vernon -- Elbert Peets : history as precedent in midwestern landscape design / Arnold R. Alanen -- Genevieve Gillette : from thrift gardens to national parks / Miriam E. Rutz -- Annette Hoyt Flanders : from beaux arts to modernism / Patricia L. Filzen.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0252025938 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780252025938 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780252072147 (pbk.)
0252072146 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape architecture Middle West History.
Landscape architects Middle West History.
Landscape architects Middle West Biography.
Architecture du paysage Midwest (États-Unis) Histoire.
Architectes paysagistes Midwest (États-Unis) Histoire.
Architectes paysagistes Midwest (États-Unis) Biographies.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture.
Middle West.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Tishler, William H.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217490
Call No.: SB470.54.M54 M5 2000
Status: Available

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