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A LIVING MUSEUM
| 题名： | A LIVING MUSEUM |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Leslie Nemo |
| 摘要： | Sprawling over 1,700 acres outside Chicago in Lisle, Illinois, the Morton Arboretum considers itself, first and foremost, a museum - no matter what some of its earliest visitors might have thought. "The general misunderstanding which still exists in the minds of many people in regard to the aim and purpose of the Morton Arboretum leads us to strive to clarify this miscomprehension," wrote botanist E.L. Kammerer in a 1932 bulletin from the arboretum (Bulletin of Popular Information, Nov. 21, 1932, Vol. 7, Nos. 11-12). But O.C. Simonds, a landscape architect and civil engineer, believed an arboretum should be more than just a museum. "It should be a work of art, showing to advantage the hills and valleys, with the former emphasized by the growth of tall trees, retaining large open areas so that the foliage, the sky lines, and the reflections in water can be seen to advantage," he wrote in a May 22, 1925, article that appeared in an edition of Bulletin of Popular Information. Simonds, and others of his time, referred to this as the Prairie Style, popular in the Midwest, which sought to emphasize the regions lush indigenous plantings and wide-open spaces. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Civil Engineering |
| 卷： | 93 |
| 期： | 3 |
| 页码： | 28-32 |
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