MON-A03: The Olmsted in All of Us: Reflections from the past Four Decades

Monday, November 14, 2022

9:00am – 10:30am PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 201-202

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA

President + CEO
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Washington, District of Columbia

Speaker(s)

Susan M. Rademacher, Hon. ASLA

Executive Director
River Heritage Conservancy
Jeffersonville, Indiana

The bicentennial in 2022 of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.’s birth offers opportunities to focus on “the father of landscape architecture’s” extant legacy and that of his successor firms; his roles as a designer, inventor, innovator, activist, and reformer; and, his continued relevance and impact on practice and the built environment.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the scope of Olmsted Sr.’s impact on the development of the profession, and raise the visibility of his sons and his successor firms spanning a century of practice.
Reveal the foundations for the Olmsted renaissance/movement during the past 40 years and consider its transferability.
Understand what Olmsted’s ideas, his built legacy and what his continuum of practice means to the profession today.
Reveal aspects of the legacy ripe for expansion and reappraisal (e.g. the role of women in the practice, African Americans who built many of these landscapes, etc.).