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Transforming the Common/Place
Selections from Laurie Olin's Sketchbook edited by Brooke Hodge |
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Transforming the Common/Place presents selected projects by landscape architect Laurie Olin and his firm Hanna/Olin. Olin, considered by many to be an heir to Frederick Law Olmsted's legacy, has put his stamp on public spaces from Manhattan to Los Angeles and from Columbus, Ohio, to London, England. His work deals largely with the transformation of the ordinary, taking commonplace elements and making them extraordinary. Often, his interventions are so expert that they seem virtually invisible.
This book focuses on three main elements of Olin's practice: public
projects - Bryant Park in New York City and the Playa Vista development
in Los Angeles; private/commercial developments - Canary Wharf and King's
Cross in London; and experimental projects - the Wexner Center for the
Visual Arts in Columbus, Ohio, carried out in collaboration with Peter
Eisenman. An introduction by John Dixon Hunt and essays Peter Eisenman
and Peter G. Rowe accompany the detailed project descriptions in Transforming
the Common/Place. Transforming the Common/Place is the first in a series
of publications on contemporary landscape architecture from the Harvard
University Graduate School of Design.
CONTENTS
ON DRAWING
Laurie D. Olin
SKETCHBOOK SELECTIONS
CHRONOLOGY
Public Projects
Bryant Park
Playa Vista
Commercial Projects
Bishopsgate
Canary Wharf—London Docklands
Kings Cross Development
Ludgate Hill
Experimental Projects
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts
Vila Olimpica
Rebstockpark
ESSAYS
Natural Appreciation and Pursuit of Ordinary Perfection: Recent Work
of Hanna/Olin
Peter G. Rowe
More than Meets the Eye: Laurie Olin's Landscape Architecture
John Dixon Hunt
essay notes
credits
Publication Title
Transforming the Common/Place: Selections from Laurie Olin's Sketchbooks
Year Published
1996, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Editor
Brooke Hodge, Editor
Essays by Peter G. Rowe and John Dixon Hunt
Format
80 pages, black and white sketches and essays
In the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collection: SB469.78.U6 O45 1996
Special Collections: Rare SB469.78.U6 O45 1996