Alfred Caldwell

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Alfred Caldwell (born May 26, 1903 in St. Louis , Missouri , † 1998 in Bristol , Wisconsin ) was an American landscape architect , architect , civil engineer and poet .

Life

After a disappointing college year in 1920, Caldwell became self-taught and apprenticed to Jens Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright . He then worked as an assistant at Jens Jensen from 1924 to 1931, before he was a freelance landscape architect in Chicago until 1934 . Caldwell oversaw parks such as Eagle Point Park , Dubuque, Iowa for the next two years . From 1936 to 1939 he then worked as a landscape designer in the Chicago Park District. He worked as a civil engineer at the United States War Department from 1940–1945 . 1945-1960 he held an architecture professorship at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1948 he received his master's degree in urban planning from the Illinois Institute of Technology with his thesis, The City in the Landscape: A Preface of Planning . Caldwell was 1960–1964 urban planner at the Department of City Planning, Chicago. A visiting professorship took him to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute , Blacksburg, Virginia in 1965 . He then was 1965-1975 architecture professor at the University of Southern California Los Angeles. In 1973 he founded a private landscape architecture firm in Los Angeles and Bristol, Wisconsin, which he ran until 1981. At the Illinois Institute of Technology he was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Professor of Architecture from 1981–1996.

Services

Called a genius by Jens Jensen. Working under Jens Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright. Partner in book projects and built objects with Ludwig Hilberseimer . As a freelance landscape architect, he struggled through the bad times of the 30s, designed landscapes as a park director and distinguished himself in later years as a university lecturer. He was particularly valued by Bauhaus architects such as Ludwig Hilberseimer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for his drawings and contributions to discussions. With these two he also participated in the planning of the "Lafayette Park" redevelopment project in Detroit in 1955.

Works

A comprehensive bibliography with many unpublished manuscripts and journal articles would lead here too far. Selected Works:

  • Suspension Structure Progressive Architecture 42, September 1961, republished in Bauen und Wohnen, September 1963.
  • The City in the Landscape: A Preface of Planning , 1948, Master Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Projects range from planting plans and detailed plans for Promotory Point, Burnham Park, Chicago 1936, Riis Park, Chicago, Lincoln Park Lily Pool, Chicago, to private houses and gardens as well as projects and book contributions with Bauhaus architects Mies and Hilberseimer, for example on "The City in the Landscape "1942.

literature

  • Dennis Domer: Alfred Caldwell: The Life and Work of a Prairie School Landscape Architect . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Virginia, 1997, ISBN 0-8018-5551-9
  • Werner Blaser : Architecture and Nature: The Work of Alfred Caldwell. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dennis Domer: Alfred Caldwell: The Life and Work of a Prairie School Landscape Architect . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Virginia, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Caldwell, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri, USA
DATE OF DEATH 1998
Place of death Bristol (Kenosha County, Wisconsin) , USA