Grandpa of Landscape Architecture

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Written as a novel, The Claudians tells the story of the man who:

• Transmitted the term ‘landscape architecture’ to Andrew Jackson Downing, to Frederick Law Olmsted and to IFLA
• Was a cousin of the famous missionary, Claudius Buchanan
• Invented the glazing system that made the Crystal Palace possible and led to the glass and steel buildings of the 20th century
• Designed ‘the most magnificent ferme ornée in England’ at Great Tew
• Wrote and published 50 million words – more than any man who lived before him
• Invented the idea of using exotic plants in naturalistic compositions. His name for this style was ‘gardenesque’
• Designed Britain’s oldest municipal park: the Derby Arboretum
• Invented the idea of planning cities with greenbelts, greenways, and integrated transport systems
• Married a pioneer of sci-fi writing (Jane Wells Loudon) who was a visionary of future city planning
• Was the most famous garden writer of the 19^th century