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Chargement... Calvert Vaux: Architect & Plannerpar William Alex, George B. Tatum
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"Calvert Vaux, architect and planner, is an unjustly neglected nineteenth-century figure. Long overshadowed by his more famous partners, Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, Vaux has failed to receive recognition a the first professional in America to combine the talents of landscape designer, architect, and planner. Working with Downing during the early 1850s, Vaux established a set of distinctive domestic architectural designs that served as a standard throughout the remainder of the century. Vaux initiated the process that led to the creation of Central Park in New York and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and persuaded Olmsted to join him in both endeavors. Their designs for these two prototypical country parks in the city were of crucial importance in fothese two prototypical country parks in the city were of crucial importance in forming the urban face of nineteenth-century industrial America." -- William Alex, The Hudson Valley Regional Review. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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