Ethan Carr in the News
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
by Elizabeth Meyer
A new reference work,"Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project" (University of Virginia Press), includes entries on two beloved figures associated with the early years of the UVa Landscape Architecture program, Professor Benjamin Howland and Lecturer Meade Palmer. This book edited by Charles Birnbaum (UVA Howland Lecturer 1992), Founder and President of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, is an encyclopedia of biographical entries about significant American landscape architects. It follows an earlier encyclopedia of biographies, "Pioneers of American Landscape Design" (2000), edited by Charles Birnbaum and Robin Karson.
UVa Landscape Architecture faculty Ethan Carr, Elizabeth Meyer and Reuben Rainey as well as alumna Sue Nelson authored bibliographic essays in "Shaping the American Landscape". The subjects of their research include significant leaders in the National Park Service, Conrad Wirth and Benjamin Howland, modernist designers Lawrence Halprin and Robert Royston, and the Virginia's most-recognized twentieth century landscape architect, Meade Palmer, whose Warrenton-based firm was a training ground for dozens of influential landscape architects from Terence Harkness (Professor, University of Illnois), Hallie Boyce (Principal, Olin Studio) to Warren T. Byrd, Jr. (former UVA Dept Chair and Professor Emeritus).
Monday, August 10, 2009
[by Jane Ford, UVa News Services]
Ethan Carr has been intrigued by public parks since he worked as a gardener in New York City's Central Park more than 20 years ago.
Since then, Carr – now a landscape architecture history professor at the University of Virginia – has devoted his career to the history and interpretation of public landscapes in America. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in art history and archaeology at Columbia University, he became New York City's park historian. He then earned a master's degree in landscape architecture at Harvard and a Ph.D. at Edinburgh College of Art.
He worked for eight years as an historian and historical landscape architect for the National Park Service and has worked at other public agencies and private offices. He has written two books on the history of American national parks.
Today, Central Park is again on his mind. Carr is editing the eighth volume of the "Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted," Central Park's co-designer and the man who set the standard for public parks in America.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The first to hold the Reuben McCorkle Rainey Chair in the History of Landscape Architecture will be Ethan Carr, Dean Van Lengen announced yesterday. Carr is one of the leading landscape historians in the United States. His work is focused on American Landscapes, in particular the National Park Service. He has written two award winning books and many articles on the design of the National Parks. His most recent book, "Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma" (2007) received the highest award from the Society of Architectural Historians. In addition, Carr has had an extensive career studying historic American Landscapes from Central Park in New York to the Hudson River and other significant places. He jointly organized the first major conference on the History of American Parks last May in Charlottesville. He is an editor for the forthcoming volume of the Papers of Fredrick Law Olmsted. Carr teaches history and theory lecture courses as well as a cultural landscape seminar at the School.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Ethan Carr is the recipient of the 2009 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) for his authorship of "Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma" (2007). The award is given annually to recognize "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of landscape architecture or garden design" and presented at the SAH's annual meeting. Carr's book will become part of the Society's permanent collection, displayed in the library of the Charnley-Persky House in Chicago, Illinois.
Friday, October 10, 2008
At the 2008 American Society of Landscape Architects meeting held last week in Philadelphia, Ethan Carr was awarded the Bradford Williams Medal, ASLA's highest honor for writing published in "Landscape Architecture Magazine". Carr, an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, is also the author of "Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma" (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2007).
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
[From UVa News Services]: The University of Virginia School of Architecture has named landscape historian Ethan Carr to serve as associate professor of landscape architecture. The appointment, announced by Architecture School dean Karen Van Lengen, will begin this fall.
Carr is a nationally recognized landscape architecture historian and preservationist specializing in the public landscape of the United States. He has redefined the scholarship on American national parks and modern landscape design through his two books, "Wilderness by Design" (1998, University of Nebraska Press), which won an American Society of Landscape Architects honor award, and "Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma" (2007 Library of American Landscape History with University of Massachusetts Press). He currently teaches history of landscape architecture, seminars in cultural landscape studies and design studios at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is editing the eighth volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, the 19th-century American landscape architect who created New York City's Central Park and other urban parks throughout the United States.
Carr earned a Ph.D. from the Edinburgh College of Art, received a master?s in landscape architecture from Harvard University, and both master?s and bachelor?s degrees in art history from Columbia University.
