Cover of the new monograph: OLIN Placemaking.

OLIN: Placemaking, published by Random House, features a selection of the most celebrated landscape architecture, urban design and planning projects spanning the last 20 years at OLIN. In dialogues with noted colleagues and collaborators, each OLIN partner articulates a personal vision and philosophy of landscape and design. Laurie Olin speaks with poet Michael Palmer, while Susan Weiler reflects on her collaboration with artist Jenny Holzer. Other dialogue participants are Kim Tripp, former director of the New York Botanical Garden; Niall Kirkwood, chair of the landscape architecture department at Harvard; Sean Timmons, founder of Simmons Design Engineering; and Charles Waldheim, a leading proponent of landscape urbanism. Taken together, these conversations provide a unique window into the creative process at OLIN. “In this volume gleams work epitomizing the value of superb landscape architecture in our time,” excerpt from forward by John Stilgoe, Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard University.