Villas and Cottages

Author : Calvert Vaux

Paperback

Published : Friday 30 May 2003

ISBN : 9781410102775

Price : €35.04

Description

The English-born architect Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) moved to America in 1850 and within 20 years won a reputation as one of Americas greatest landscape architects. He was co-designer (with Frederick Law Olmstead and others) of a number of New York Citys principal parks (Central Park, Morningside and Riverside Parks, Prospect Park in Brooklyn), South Park in Chicago, and the Metropolitan and Natural History Museums in New York City. Vaux was a major influence in the development of a national architecture in America.Villas and Cottages, published in 1857, was his only book. It forms a record of his early work in the field of domestic architecture. It contains 39 designs for well-styled, efficient, and low-priced houses - rural and suburban cottages, villas and town houses built in the Hudson River Valley during the 1850s. Each design is supplemented with detailed floor plans, perspective views, a lively commentary, and vignettes illustrating various details; front and side elevations are included in many cases.

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