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ONE CIVIC SQUARE REBECCA A SCHMIESING CHECK AMOUNT: $22.81
CARMEL, INDIANA 46032 9135 BRYANT LANE #2B
INDIANAPOLIS IN 46250 CHECK NUMBER: 162967
CHECK DATE: 8/20/2008
DEPARTMENT ACCOUNT PO NUMBER INVOICE NUMBER AMOUNT DESCRIPTION
1125 4343000 22.81 TRAVEL FEES EXPENSE
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Parks meeting, July 9, 2008 at Indianapolis Museum of Art Olmsted design concepts
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Seven S's of Olmsted's Design Charles E. Beveridge, January 1986
SCENERY: Design of "passages of scenery" even in the small spaces and in areas intended
for active use. Creation of designs that give an enhanced sense of space: indefinite
boundaries, constant opening up of new views. Avoidance of hard -edge or specimen planting,
creating instead designs that have either "considerable complexity of light and shadow near
the eye" or "obscurity of detail further away."
SUITABILITY: Creation of designs that are in keeping with the natural scenery and
topography of the site: respect for, and full utilization of, the "genius of the place."
STYLE: Designing in specific styles, each for a particular effect. Primarily in the "Pastoral"
style (open greensward with small bodies of water and scattered trees and groves) for a
soothing, restorative atmosphere, or in the "Picturesque" style (profuse planting, especially
with shrubs, creepers and ground cover, on steep and broken terrain), for a sense of the
richness and bounteousness of nature, with chiaroscuro effects of light and shade to produce
a sense of mystery.
SUBORDINATION: Subordination of all elements, all features and objects, to the overall
design and the effect it is intended to achieve. The "Art to conceal Art."
SEPARATION; Separation of areas designed in different styles, so that an "incongruous
mixture of styles" will not dilute the intended effect of each: separation of ways, in order to
insure safety of use and reduce distractions for those using the apace; separation of
conflicting or incompatible uses.
SANITATION: Provision for adequate drainage and other engineering considerations, not
simply arranging of surface features. Planning or designs so that they promote both the
physical and mental health of users,
SERVICE: Planning of designs so that they will serve a "purpose of direct utility or service;"
that is, will meet fundamental social and psychological needs: "So long as considerations of
utility are neglected or overridden by considerations of ornament, there will be, no true Art."
Further quotes frorn Fredrick Law Olmsted, Sr. and F. L. Olmsted, Jr
Olmsted's emphasis on the "sanitary" influence of his style of landscape design reflected his
desire to have his designs produce an effect on the whole human organism. He believed that such
service to human needs, and not simply the creation of decoration, should underlie all art.
"Service must precede art," he declared.
The two writers who most influenced his thought on this subject were the eighteenth -century
Swiss physician Sohann Georg von Zimmermann.... Solitude Considered, with Respect to Its
Influence on the ,Mind and the Heart
Separated from his home and family, he sank into deep melancholy that was assuaged only be
daily walks in a garden "cultivated in the English taste" of a friend near Hanover. His curiosity
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aroused, Zimmermann began a search for the explanation of nature's ability to heal derangements
of the mind. He concluded that scenery worked its powerful effect through the imagination
When in later years Olmsted described the process by which he wished his own landscape
designs to have their effect, his basis was the same theory of unconscious influence. In one classic
example, he contrasted the effect of a common wild flower on a grassy bank with that of a gaudy
hybrid of the same genus, imported from Japan and blooming under glass in an enameled vase.
The hybrid would draw immediate attention. He observed, but "the former, while we have passed
it by without stopping, and while it has not interrupted our conversation or called for remark, may
possibly, with other objects of the same class, have touched us more, may have come home to as
more, may have had a more soothing and refreshing sanitary influence."
Olmsted used the style of the Beautiful or as he usually called it, the pastoral to create a sense
of the peacefulness of nature and to sooth and restore the spirit. The Pastoral style was the basic
mode of his park designs, which he intended to serve as the setting for "unconscious or indirect
recreation." The chief purpose of a park, he taught, was "an effect on the human organism by an
action of what it presents to view, which action, like that of music, is of a kind that goes back of
thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words." 1886
"It is under similar conditions to these that we find in nature that class of scenery which is
termed pastoral. It consists of combinations of trees, standing singly or in and casting
their shadows over broad stretches of turf, or repeating their beauty by reflection upon the calm
surface of pools, and the predo associations are in the highest degree tranquilizing and
grateful, as expressed by the Hebrew poet: Ve maketh me to lie down. in green pastures; he
leadeth me beside the still waters.
Report on design for Prospect Park, 1866
Report upon the development of public grounds for greater Baltimore
reprinted 1987 by Friends of Maryland's Olmsted Parks and Landscapes:
pg 21 "Perhaps all that can be said to unite the various ends which now bear the "park" label is
that they have to do with recreation out of doors, and that the recreation is expected to come in
part at least from beauty of appearance.
"Provision for exercise in the open air is a matter of vital importance, calling more and
more loudly for systematic municipal action as cities increase in size and density of population, as
more and more people come to be engaged in confining [indoor] occupations, and as quick and
cheap transportation reduces the amount of exercise which people take as incidental to their daily
work.
pg 28 "For the most part, however, larger parks are used.. in a way that has been called
'neighborly'. People go out to them in small groups and families and stroll or sit about together
enjoying the refreshing landscape in one another's company in sight of other sucl) groups, perhaps
but a little apart from them. They want shade, a certain degree of retirement from others,
and a well- marked withdrawal from the ordinary city sights and sounds; they prefer a point with a
view which gives a sense of spaciousness in marked contrast to their cramped city quarters, and
they crave a sense of freedom from restraint."
"problem" of protecting parks from use by too many people, reminds me of Holliday, Eagle
Creek Brown County
p. 79 "[I]t will be... more costly to develop on account of the small proportion of moderately
level land and the necessity of maintaining as the chief landscape character a wilder sylvan
condition, which cannot be so easily maintained under the wear and tear of large crowds."
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Purchase Order No.
357470 Schmiesing, Rebecca Terms
124 Hillcrest Drive Date Due
Westfield, IN 46074
Invoice Invoice Description
Date Number (or note attached invoice(s) or bill(s)) Amount
7111108 reimb. Mileage 719/08 22.81
Total 22.81
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