[PDF.40ns] Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux

Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux

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 | #3161075 in eBooks |  2003-08-07 |  1998-01-22 | File type: PDF

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very Good Biography of Calvenrt Vaux|By David Arbogast|This is an excellent biography of Calvert Vaux, who is best remembered for his design of the architectural features of Central Park in New York City. The book focuses primarily on his professional life and is amply illustrated. It is quite readable and well annotated. My only quibble with it is that the illustrations wer|.com |Ask the average New Yorker who designed Central Park, and those who know their history will probably say Frederick Law Olmstead--and they would be partially correct. But ask for the other half of the designing duo and watch for the blank stares. Notorio

After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens. As Downing's partner, and after Downing's death in 1852, Vaux designed country and suburban dwellings that were remarkable for their well-conceived plans and their sensitive rapport with nature.
By 1857, the year he published his book Villas and Cottage...

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