Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and the Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape - Couverture rigide

Cushing, Elizabeth Hope

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1625340397 ISBN 13 : 9781625340399

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014

Synopsis

In 1928 the landscape architect Arthur A. Shurcliff (1870–1957) began what became one of the most important examples of the American Colonial Revival landscape-Colonial Williamsburg, a project that stretched into the 1940s and included town and highway planning as well as residential and institutional gardens. Shurcliff graduated from MIT with a degree in engineering in 1894 but was drawn to landscape architecture. Because no formal programmes existed at the time, on the advice of Frederick Law Olmsted and with the aid of his mentor, Charles Eliot, he went on to piece together courses at Harvard College, the Lawrence Scientific School, and the Bussey Institute, earning a second B.S. two years later. He then spent eight years working in the Olmsted office, acquiring a broad and sophisticated knowledge of the profession.

Opening his own practice in 1904, Shurcliff emphasised his expertise in town planning, through the years preparing plans for towns surrounding Boston and for several industrial communities. He also designed recreational spaces in and around Boston, including significant aspects of the Franklin Park Zoo and the Charles River Esplanade, one of Shurcliff’s major projects in the region.

In this richly illustrated biography, Elizabeth Hope Cushing shows how Shurcliff’s early years in Boston, his training, his early design and planning work, and his experience creating an Arts and Crafts–style summer compound in Ipswich led to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest commission of his career and his most significant contribution to American landscape architecture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Hope Cushing is the author of numerous cultural landscape history reports and coauthor of Community by Design: The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts (University of Massachusetts Press / Library of American Landscape History, 2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625340397
• ISBN 13: 9781625340399
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
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