American Romantic Landscapes: Olmsted, Farrand and Vaux

Olmsted, Vaux and Farrand were the leading landscape architects of nineteenth and early twentieth century America, and between them they invented a new romantic style of garden design built on pastoral, picturesque, native and ecological principles.

The argument of this talk is that their work is not just revered but newly useful: climate change, urbanization and habitat destruction make the ecological half of what they were doing more relevant now than when they did it. The style grew partly out of the painting principles of the Hudson River School, so the talk moves between history, garden design and art.

Jennifer Yates presents. She is an artist and an award-winning landscape designer whose work aims at the ecological as much as the beautiful. She holds a Bachelor of Interior Architecture with a minor in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, studied Art at Brown University, then went on to Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at the New York Botanical Garden.

Good to know. Free, at the library.