1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006284590403321

Autore

Confederazione generale fascista dell'industria italiana

Titolo

L'industria Italiana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Soc. An. Tip. Castaldi, 1929

Descrizione fisica

941 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

338

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

XV H 240

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451232303321

Autore

Kowsky Francis R

Titolo

Country, Park & City [[electronic resource] ] : The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

ISBN

1-280-84371-3

9786610843718

0-19-802746-X

0-19-534685-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

712.5097471

720.92

Soggetti

Architects -- United States -- Biography

Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History

Landscape architecture

Landscape design

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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