Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era
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\ ChoiceThis book by Karson (Library of American Landscape History), handsomely illustrated with plans and historic photographs and with photographer Betsch's wonderful work, focuses on eight American landscape architects and seven places they designed in the roughly four decades following the death of Frederick Olmsted in 1903. . . . Summing up: Recommended.\ \ \ \ \ Landscape ArchitectureFormidable in scope and impressive in presentation. . . . Altogether, text, visuals, and format work to produce a significant and beautiful book. Building on past scholarship and pointing the way for future investigations, Karson's work contributes significantly to the profession's history and our understanding of its evolution. Landscape historians will devour what's here; others should find inspiration in planting schemes, design details, scale relationships, and photography. This is a feast to be savored and digested slowly, over time.\ \ \ The American GardenerYet again Robin Karson has hit the ball out of the park. This is, after all, the American landscape historian who has received much critical acclaim for her previous books. Her latest opus is an edge-of-the-seat discourse on seven sublime American gardens, their extraordinary owners, and their exceptional designers. . . . The book is generously illustrated with historic photographs. These are complemented by the superb modern black and white pictures of Carol Betsh, which exquisitely capture the spirit of each site. Too often, Americans prefer to focus on gardens on the other side of the pon, from England to Japan. IN this book, as in her previous works, Karson redirects us towards our own homegrown antecedents. And we are that much richer for it.\ \
