Last updated: June 5, 2024
Place
Caracas Club
Olmsted Archives
Quick Facts
Location:
Caracas, Venezuela
Significance:
Olmsted Designed Landscape
MANAGED BY:
Situated in the foothills of El Avila Mountain, Caracas Country Club was developed to provide a new and integrated urban experience, the first of its kind in Venezuela. During the late 1920s, Olmsted Brothers were asked to design a residential community on the land of a former coffee plantation.
Olmsted Brothers used a sensitive approach that would embrace the pre-existing landscape features, protecting it from the surrounding urban development. Preservation of “the irreplaceable and unvalued domains of the past” was an overarching design principle.
The firm also ensured other historically significant features were preserved, including an 18th century bridge and the configuration of the main road. By preserving the land, they were able to offer wide views of the mountains.
This 92-acre community would be worked on between 1928 and 1934, and Olmsted Brothers would produce over eighty drawings and plans to ensure the area stayed true to its origins.
Source: "Caracas Country Club," The Cultural Landscape Foundation
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr
Olmsted Brothers used a sensitive approach that would embrace the pre-existing landscape features, protecting it from the surrounding urban development. Preservation of “the irreplaceable and unvalued domains of the past” was an overarching design principle.
The firm also ensured other historically significant features were preserved, including an 18th century bridge and the configuration of the main road. By preserving the land, they were able to offer wide views of the mountains.
This 92-acre community would be worked on between 1928 and 1934, and Olmsted Brothers would produce over eighty drawings and plans to ensure the area stayed true to its origins.
Source: "Caracas Country Club," The Cultural Landscape Foundation
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr