Alfred Caldwell

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 1920 Caldwell was self-taught and went to Jens Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright in teaching. He then worked as an assistant at 1924-1931 Jens Jensen before he was free until 1934 active landscape architect in Chicago. Caldwell had the following two years, will oversee various parks such as the Eagle Point Park, Dubuque, Iowa. From 1936-1939, he then worked as a landscaper in the Chicago Park District. 1940-1945 He worked as a civil engineer at the United States War Department. 1945-1960 he held an architecture professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 1948, he reached his master's degree in urban planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology with the thesis The City in the Landscape: A Preface of Planning. Caldwell was 1960-1964 urban planners at the Department of City Planning, Chicago. A visiting professor led him in 1965 to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia. He was subsequently 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 1981-1996 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Professor of Architecture.

Services

Considered by Jens Jensen as a genius. Working under Jens Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright. Partner at book projects and raised buildings Ludwig Hilberseimer. As a freelance landscape architect, he fought his way through the bad times of the 30s, designed landscapes as a park director and distinguished himself in later years as a high school teacher. From Bauhaus architects such as Ludwig Hilberseimer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, he was especially appreciated for his drawings and discussion posts. With these two he also participated in the planning of the redevelopment project " Lafayette Park " in 1955 in Detroit.

Works

Extensive bibliography with many unpublished manuscripts and magazine articles would lead us too far. Selected works:

• Structure suspension Progressive Architecture 42 September 1961 Republished in construction and housing, 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 the Promotory Point, Burnham Park, Chicago 1936, Riis Park, Chicago's Lincoln Park Lily Pool, Chicago, to private homes and gardens, as well as projects and book chapters with Bauhaus architect Mies and Hilberseimer about to " The City in the Landscape ", 1942.