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

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Kowsky, Francis R, 1943-

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (391 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780195346855
0195346858
0195171136
9780195171136
9786610843718
6610843716

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

720.92

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NA737.V4 K68 2003eb

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Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 What Is a Young Architect to Do, and How Is He to Get On?: 1824-1850; 2 Il Buono e il Bello: 1850-1852; 3 The Inexhaustible Demand for Rural Residences: 1853-1856; 4 All That Human Intelligence Can Achieve in Adorning and Beautifying the Earth: 1857-1858; 5 The Only Thing That Gives Me Much Encouragement That I Have in Me the Germ of an Architect: The Terrace; 6 Possible Together, Impossible to Either Alone: 1859-1865; 7 Country Life in Comparison with City Life ... a Question of Delicate Adjustment: 1866-1872.

8 Always Light-Armed, Cheerful, and Ready for a Run to the Nearest Summit: 1873-18809 A School of Romanticists Even Then Fast Vanishing: 1881-1895; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: 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 Cottages, Vaux had moved to New York City. There he asked Frederick Law Olmsted to join him in preparing a design for Central Park. He spent t.

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8 Always Light-Armed, Cheerful, and Ready for a Run to the Nearest Summit: 1873-18809 A School of Romanticists Even Then Fast Vanishing: 1881-1895; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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 Cottages, Vaux had moved to New York City. There he asked Frederick Law Olmsted to join him in preparing a design for Central Park. He spent t.