One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the grounds of the Washington Monument, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and New York's Bryant Park. Olin is also a prolific writer, and his essays wide span a wide array of subjects--from horticulture and education to urban history, the evolving state of the profession of landscape architecture, and many other topics of interest to a range of readers.