Charles eliot, landscape architect: an introduction to his life and work

摘要

Recently returned to Boston from a year-long study tour of Europe, the young Charles Eliot set up a landscape architecture practice on Park Street in December 1886. Over the next decade he would make an indelible mark on the physical form of the metropolitan region and beyond. In Eliot's solo practice, and later as a partner in Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot, he developed many fine public parks and private estates. He became one of the country's most prolific and influential landscape critics and historians, and provided the creative and political impetus for the Trustees of Public Reservations, the first statewide preservation and conservation organization in the country and the precursor to Britain's National Trust.