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Dennis McGlade named an Honorary Fellow in the Kew Guild |
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Principal Dennis C. McGlade has been named an Honorary Fellow
in the Kew Guild, a distinguished Association of Alumni of
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in Richmond, near London.
The Guild was founded in 1893. This honor is in recognition
of McGlade’s distinguished services to the general advancement
of horticulture and the botanic sciences. McGlade, a Principal
of Olin Partnership since 1986 and the President since 2005,
has led and contributed to many of the firm's award-winning
urban and landscape design projects. His extensive knowledge
of horticulture and innovative planting technology greatly
informs and enhances his work and results in his participation
in numerous projects across the globe. McGlade's current projects
include the Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden at the Getty
Center in Los Angeles, several projects at the University
of Virginia in Charlottesville, and the masterplan of a new
community in the Cayman Islands.
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Olin
Partnership receives 2006 Firm Award from the American Society
of Landscape Architects |
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The ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award is the highest
honor the American Society of Landscape Architects may bestow
on a landscape architecture firm. The Award recognizes landscape
architecture firms that have produced bodies of distinguished
work influencing the professional practice of landscape architecture.
Olin Partnership has designed many ASLA award-winning projects,
such as New York’s Columbus Circle and Robert F. Wagner Jr.
Park; the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles; and Salt Lake
City’s LDS Conference Center.
The firm’s breadth of work includes urban plazas, public parks,
botanic and sculpture gardens, museums, and university campuses,
including Harvard, Stanford, and University of California
Berkeley. Olin Partnership has created extraordinary waterfronts,
such as Canary Wharf in London, West Indian Club on Grand
Cayman Island and San Francisco’s Rincon Park. Because of
the firm’s reputation for excellence, it has been entrusted
with many treasured historic spaces, including Independence
National Historical Park in Philadelphia and the Washington
Monument in Washington, D.C. Olin Partnership is also a recognized
leader in sustainable design and landscape over structure.
Olin Partnership synthesizes the best of art and science to
transform natural and manmade elements into expressions of
social purpose. Powerful and imaginative concepts, fine craftsmanship
and the use of handsome, lasting materials to create beautiful
and meaningful places for people are the hallmark of the firm’s
practice.
Olin Partnership shares the ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm
Award with the many clients and colleagues whose support helped
make this achievement possible.
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Acknowledgements
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Olin Partnership welcomes a new employee
Rebecca Kainer has joined the staff of Olin Partnership as
a Senior Landscape Designer. Kainer holds a Master of Landscape
Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where she
was awarded the George Madden Boughton Prize for Design Excellence
and the American Society of Landscape Architecture Honor Award.
She received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Texas
A&M University. Prior to re-joining Olin Partnership, she
was a Senior Associate at Field Operations in New York. Her
previous professional experience includes Hargreaves Associates
in San Francisco, CA, and the SWA Group in Texas. |
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"Vizcaya: An America Villa and Its Makers" released
by University of Pennsylvania Press
Laurie Olin, along with urbanist and architectural critic
Witold Rybczynski, has published the history of an extraordinary
palatial estate of the Gilded Age entitled "Vizcaya:
An American Villa and Its Makers" by University of
Pennsylvania Press. Vizcaya was completed in Miami in 1916
as the summer home of wealthy industrialist James Deering.
The book chronicles how Deering, with his team of three
rather inexperienced designers, was able to achieve a work
of innovative and remarkable beauty that today is regarded
as a national treasure. Part One, written by Rybczynski,
focuses on the house while Part Two, penned by Olin, addresses
the gardens and landscape of the 180-acre grounds. The book
collects archival material and watercolor paintings, some
published for the very first time, as well as recent photographs
of the estate, which is now a museum owned by Miami-Dade
County. This publication marks the first scholarly book
ever written on Vizcaya.
Olin is also the author of "Across the Open Field: Essays
Drawn from English Landscapes" and a coauthor of "La Foce:
A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany."
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