The history of the profession of landscape architecture in the United States is still obscure to most people, even landscape practitioners. One of the most important figures in this field was Charles Eliot, whose story is told in this richly detailed biography. It was written by his father, the president of Harvard College, in 1902, a few years after Eliot's death at age thirty-eight from spinal meningitis.

Like his colleague and partner Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., the younger Eliot was a figure of enormous talent and energy, and a major force in the profession. He emerges from his father's...

One of the first American women landscape architects to receive professional training, Hutcheson (1871-1959) specialized in garden design, the topic of her now classic work, reprinted in this lavish edition.

Originally published in 1915, this is the first study to explore a distinctly American style of landscape design based on the celebration, replication, and conservation of the natural environment of the Midwest.

An early and influential treatise on the role of landscape architecture in nineteenth-century America.

A new edition of a book that helped shape American landscape architecture In 1903, Frank Albert Waugh (1869-1943) founded an undergraduate program in "landscape gardening" at Massachusetts Agricultural College, only the second such program in the nation. The profession he helped to pioneer is now known as landscape architecture, and the college has become the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Waugh, who had moved to New England in 1895 from his native Midwest, was one of the first practitioners to conceive of a history of American landscape architecture. He was a renowned teacher and...