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- catalog abstract ""Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life." So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work. With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape. As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English, Across the Open Field is "an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth." -- Book Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11354985.
- catalog coverage "England Description and travel.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life." So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work. With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape. As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English, Across the Open Field is "an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth." -- Book Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. As the Twig Is Bent -- 2. On Buckland and Drawing: First Impressions and Later Observations -- 3. Village and Farm: Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire. An Agricultural Lindscape. Bronze and Iron Age Developments. Medieval Longbridge and the Emergence of Wessex. Norman Prosperity. Architecture in the Landscape: The Great Rebuilding. Climate, Ecology. and the Landscape. Longbridge at the Crossroads -- 4. Et in Arcadia Ego: Landscape Gardens and Parks. Love at First Sight. Habits of Mind. Longleat. Italian Moods, Palladians, and the Landscape. Stourhead. Lancelot "Capability" Brown. The Landscape Movement Spreads. Pusey House. Buscot House. Wardour Castle, Buckland House, and Richard Woods. In Conclusion: Beauty Past Change.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-342) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 352 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812235312 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Penn studies in landscape architecture".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "Gardens England History.".
- catalog subject "Gardens, English History.".
- catalog subject "Landscape England.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture England History.".
- catalog subject "Landscapes England.".
- catalog subject "Olin, Laurie Journeys England.".
- catalog subject "Olin, Laurie Travel England.".
- catalog subject "SB470.55.G7 O44 2000X".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. As the Twig Is Bent -- 2. On Buckland and Drawing: First Impressions and Later Observations -- 3. Village and Farm: Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire. An Agricultural Lindscape. Bronze and Iron Age Developments. Medieval Longbridge and the Emergence of Wessex. Norman Prosperity. Architecture in the Landscape: The Great Rebuilding. Climate, Ecology. and the Landscape. Longbridge at the Crossroads -- 4. Et in Arcadia Ego: Landscape Gardens and Parks. Love at First Sight. Habits of Mind. Longleat. Italian Moods, Palladians, and the Landscape. Stourhead. Lancelot "Capability" Brown. The Landscape Movement Spreads. Pusey House. Buscot House. Wardour Castle, Buckland House, and Richard Woods. In Conclusion: Beauty Past Change.".
- catalog title "Across the open field : essays drawn from English landscapes / Laurie Olin.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".