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Kowsky Francis R. <1943-> |
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Country, park & city : the architecture and life of Calvert Vaux / / Francis R. Kowsky |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, USA, , 2003 |
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1-280-84371-3 |
9786610843718 |
0-19-802746-X |
0-19-534685-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (391 pages) |
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Architects - United States |
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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: 1873-1880; 9 A School of Romanticists Even Then Fast Vanishing: 1881-1895; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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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 |
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moved to New York City. There he asked Frederick Law Olmsted to join him in preparing a design for Central Park. |
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