2024 Olmsted Network Conference Keynote: Yvonne Elet

From the Olmsteds Forward: The Vassar Campus as Microcosm of Hudson Valley Landscape
Yvonne Elet
Yvonne Elet is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Vassar College. Her research and publications focus on integrated designs for architecture and landscape, from Italian Renaissance villas to twentieth century American estates. Her latest book, Urban Landscape in the Third Rome: Raphael’s Villa and Mussolini’s Forum, was published by Edifir in Florence in 2023. She teaches courses on Italian art, architecture,
landscape, and urbanism of the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, and on the Vassar campus and Springside, where she serves as Vice President of the Board. She has collaborated with students on research projects about the work of Beatrix Farrand, Percival Gallagher and Diana Balmori; launched the Vassar Campus History website; and co-organized the 2022 exhibition The Campus Green: The Olmsted Firm’s Designs for Vassar College.
Introduction by Elizabeth Bradley, President, Vassar College.