LEADER 04113nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910826696003321 005 20240418031850.0 010 $a0-8122-0786-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207866 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418362 035 $a(OCoLC)859161758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748831 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053987 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11588454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053987 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11127466 035 $a(PQKB)10467536 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26856 035 $a(DE-B1597)449547 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963007 035 $a(OCoLC)979910468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207866 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442241 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748831 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682442 035 $a(OCoLC)932313029 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442241 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418362 100 $a19990512d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAcross the open field $eessays drawn from English landscapes /$fLaurie Olin 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aPenn studies in landscape architecture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51160-8 311 0 $a0-8122-3531-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tCHAPTER ONE. As the Twig Is Bent --$tCHAPTER TWO. On Buckland and Drawing --$tCHAPTER THREE. Village and Farm --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Et in Arcadia Ego --$tIndex 330 $a"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." 606 $aLandscape architecture$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aGardens, English$xHistory 606 $aLandscapes$zEngland 606 $aGardens$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xDescription and travel 610 $aArchitecture. 610 $aFine Art. 610 $aGarden History. 610 $aGeography. 615 0$aLandscape architecture$xHistory. 615 0$aGardens, English$xHistory. 615 0$aLandscapes 615 0$aGardens$xHistory. 676 $a712/.0942 700 $aOlin$b Laurie$011821 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826696003321 996 $aAcross the open field$9116570 997 $aUNINA