Alfred Caldwell : the life and work of a Prairie school landscape architect / edited by Dennis Domer.

Title & Author:

Alfred Caldwell : the life and work of a Prairie school landscape architect / edited by Dennis Domer.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Description:

xx, 307 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301) and index.
Caldwell chronology -- The life of Alfred Caldwell -- Atlantis and return (1974) -- Sonnets from Atlantis and return -- Selected Essays. In defense of animals (1931) ; Columbus Park (1942) ; The Lily Pool, Lincoln Park (1942) ; The living landscape (Excerpts) (1943-54) ; The city in the landscape (1945) ; Atomic bombs and city planning (1945) ; Louis Sullivan (1956) ; Jens Jensen: the prairie spirit (1961) ; A job for Durga and Shiva (1967) ; Lost cities of America (1970) ; Light and the conquest of kitsch (1973) ; Nature and architecture (1983) ; On the meaning of Mies (1986) ; Three cantos on color (1992) -- Autobiographical miscellanea. Selected letters to Jens Jensen (1937-41) ; Selected letters to Ludwig Hilberseimer (1940-42) ; Eulogy for Jens Jensen (1951) ; Deposition on the Farnsworth House (November 17, 1951).

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801855519 (alk. paper)
9780801855511 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Caldwell, Alfred, 1903-1998.
Caldwell, Alfred 1903-1998
Caldwell, Alfred, (1903- )
Caldwell, Alfred.
Landscape architects United States Biography.
Landscape architecture United States.
Prairie school (Architecture)
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Prairie houses (Architecture)
Prairie School.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Added entries:

Domer, Dennis, 1944-
Center for American Places.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191584
Call No.: NA44.C147 (ID:97-B2558)
Status: Available

Location: Library main 191585
Call No.: ID NA44.C147; ID:97-B2558
Status: Available

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