First: "The Shape of Things To Come", Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, April 9, 2017. Data points:
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- father of landscape architecture in the United States
- arrived in Dallas, 1855
- his works include
- Central Park, Manhattan, NYC
- Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC
- the Emerald Necklace of Boston
- White House grounds, Washington, DC
- Capital grounds, Washington, DC
- The article comes at a time when there is a movement in Dallas to "re-wild" the Trinity River, to let natural ecologies one again take over the space between the levees. My reading of the tea leaves: Olmsted would have said "no." Or perhaps, "hell, no."
- first recipient of this award
- $150,000
- Dallas philanthropist Margaret McDermott, recently celebrated her 105th birthday, donor behind the award
- Brettel occupies the Margaret M. McDermott chair of art and the aesthetic studies and the Edith O'Donnell distinguished university chair at the University of Texas at Dallas
- also the art critic at The Dallas Morning News
- writer considers Walked the dean of American landscape artists; currently active; in his 80s
- his firm is active worldwide
- educated at UC-Berkeley; the University of Illinois; and, Harvard University
- first major work: his firm designed the overall landscape for the incipient Dallas Arts District
- then, the corporate community of Solana northwest of DFW
- then, the landscape master plan for the University of Texas at Dallas
- that led to designing the landscape for Clements University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- he has designed a landscape master plan for the University of Texas at Austin
- his signature landscape: the National September 11 Memorial in New York City
- others:
- Barangaroo Reserve Park, Sydney, Australia
- Sony Headquarters, Berlin
- Jamison Square, Portland, OR
- Harvard, Boston, MA
- Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia
- Glenstone, Maryland
- Cleveland Clinic
- two immense landscape/architectural environments under construction will crown his storied career
- the Transbay Transit Square, San Francisco: one block wide, a quarter mile long, and four stories above street level
- the Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore: a five-story circular tropical garden in a totally air-conditioned space inside the airport; for airport travelers to relax
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