Rapuano

Clarke, in turn, deputized Rapuano to head the Department of Landscape Design—an elite "skunk works" charged with system-wide park planning and design.

The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011

A latter-day Xerxes, Rapuano fell in love with the plane and carried his affections back to New York.

The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011

The most visible of Rapuano's Roman keepsakes, however, were the plane trees he specified in nearly every New York project.

The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011

Son of Neapolitan immigrants, Rapuano studied landscape architecture at Cornell University and in 1927 won a coveted Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011

Though U.S. landscape architects had long mined the Renaissance to create sumptuous private estates, Rapuano was among the first to use an Italianate lexicon for the design of public parks.

The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011

Its principal designer, Michael Rapuano, had measured and drawn the Villa d'Este in 1928 as a student at the American Academy in Rome, work used by the Italian government to restore the gardens themselves in the 1930s.

Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011

"This is a business of heroes and fall guys, and it's really easy when somebody has a great short-term record to make them into a hero and when poor to say they're an idiot," said Ms. Rapuano, who is now portfolio manager at Lane Five Capital Management LP.

A Star Exits After Value Falls Joe Light 2011

Lisa Rapuano , who worked under Mr. Miller at Legg Mason until 2004, said Mr. Miller was aware of how unusual his run of tremendous performance was, even as he was in the midst of it.

A Star Exits After Value Falls Joe Light 2011

Mr. Rapuano, a prolific designer of public works during the Robert Moses era, lavished special attention on Ippolito's exquisite giardino segreto .

Art at the Scale of Landscape Thomas J. Campanella 2011

The curving cordonate , or stair ramps, at Carl Schurz Park and Dinosaur Playground refer to those at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, which Rapuano measured and drew, and at the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, documented by another Cornellian and Rome Prize winner, Ralph E. Griswold.

The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane Thomas J. Campanella 2011