LARCH 060

Tuesday, March 23rd, 1999
Announcements: Exam #2 on Thursday March 25th during classtime. A-O names in 121 Sparks, P-Z in 112 Buckhout. Slide review tonight at 101 Thomas from 7-8pm

Lecture notes

FREDRICK LAW OLMSTEAD 2:

Land/environment:

• Environment/expansionism
• Exploitation/preservation

Socio-cultural milieu:

• Invention/ industrial revolution
• Civil war
• Rapid change/ transportation
• Social issues - immigration

Design Expression:

• ELS plus
• Human rights, health, welfare
• Expanded to campuses, city planning (not just parks). Also helped welfare of soldiers (food, treatment, etc...) during Civil War
• Eventually fo ill/tired, got invited to a gold mine in California (Mariposa) to help miners
• Saw uniqueness in Yosemite Valley, wrote reports on it becoming accessible (along with other architects)
• Then he went to the EAST coast
• Emerald Necklace: (Boston)- series of linked spaces (parks), create a feeling of country, begun in the 1870's, took about 25 years, had flood/drainage problem (from the bay). Solution was to have upper and lower pools that drained into the ocean----result: became cleaner, and more pleasant
• Franklin park: final piece of Emerald Necklace...used solids and voids, spontaneous recreation, set aside entry and adjacent lands called "antepark" but this space is now occupied by constructions.
• Biltmore (NC): Large scale estate (land of the Vanderbilt's), 125,000 acres, Richard hunt designed the chateaux, Olmstead designed landscape. Loggers stripped all trees away, so Olmstead suggested a vision of a forestry program (rebuild it ). There was a geometric build around the estate , the rest of the land was dedicated to forestry and farming
• Fredrick Law Olmstead died in 1903