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Transforming the common place : selections from Laurie Olin's sketchbooks

"Transforming the Common/Place"presents selected projects by landscape architect Laurie Olin and his firm Hanna/Olin. Considered by many to be an heir to Frederick Law Olmsted's legacy, Olin has put his stamp on public spaces from Manhattan to Los Angeles and from Columbus, Ohio to London, England. His work deals mainly with the transformation of the ordinary, taking commonplace elements and making them extraordinary

Print Book, English, ©1996
Harvard University Graduate School of Design ; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Princeton Architectural Press, Cambridge, Mass., New York, NY, ©1996