Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn from English Landscapes

by Laurie Olin

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812235312
• ISBN13: 9780812235319
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.0" x 11.0"