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Charles E. Beveridge, PhD, Honorary
ASLA
The
Olmsted Medal was instituted in 1990 to recognize individuals,
organizations, agencies, or programs outside the profession of landscape
architecture for environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship.
Charles Eliot Beveridge, PhD, Honorary ASLA, one
of ASLA’s new Honorary
Members, is the world’s foremost authority on the
work of Frederick Law Olmsted. In his work as an author and scholar,
Dr. Beveridge has devoted his 40-year career to the study of Olmsted’s
philosophies and achievements in landscape architecture. As series
editor of the 12-volume The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
(Johns Hopkins University Press), Dr. Beveridge has ensured that
Olmsted’s ideas and body of work have achieved the acclaim
and protection they deserve. He served as advisor to the U.S. Postal
Service in 1999 on the Olmsted stamp, as historical advisor to National
Geographic’s March 2005 feature article on Olmsted, and
as consultant on HGTV’s Olmsted program in 2001. He has worked
closely with landscape architects and communities throughout the
U.S. and Canada to ensure the preservation and ongoing stewardship
of Olmsted’s work.
Read the nomination letter from Kristi
Farnsworth, ASLA, and support letters from Elizabeth
Barlow Rogers, Hon. ASLA, Grady
Clay, Honorary ASLA, Darwina
L. Neal, FASLA, Susan
Rademacher, and Witold
Rybczynski, Hon. FAIA.
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