EVENT: June 8 talk with Witold R.
A TALK BY WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI
Thursday, June 8, 20066pm
“Frederick Law Olmsted: Beyond Central Park”New York Society for Ethical Culture, Central Park West @ 64th Street
While Frederick Law Olmsted is best known as the co-designer and builder of Central Park in New York, his work and influence as a landscape architect goes far beyond that project. In this illustrated lecture, Witold Rybczynski, author of the prize-winning biography, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, discusses Olmsted as a journalist, civic leader, and town planner. Professor Rybczynski also reviews two Olmsted landscapes in greater detail: his second great public park, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and his last project, the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. ~*Harperley Hall—called “a 1911 Arts and Crafts masterpiece” by architectural historian and New York Times columnist Christopher Gray—was designed by Henry Wilhelm Wilkinson as one of the earliest cooperative apartment buildings in the city. Both Harperley Hall and the New York Society for Ethical Culture, an Individual Landmark designed by Robert D. Kohn and built in 1909-10, are part of the Upper West Side/Central Park West Historic District (designated by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1990).
Following the lecture, join us and Mr. Rybczynski across the street for book-signing, cocktails, conversation and sweeping views of Central Parkat the rooftop garden at Harperley Hall (1 West 64th Street)
$100 donation requested for talk and reception ($25 for talk only). Space is limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance.Contact LW! at [email protected] or 212-496-8110.
Special thanks to the Ethical Culture Society for its donation of space for this lecture, to Harperley Hall for the use of its roof garden, to Gail Gregg for food and beverage.