ALFRED CALDWELL: LIVE AND ARCHIVED
BY ZACH MORTICE
Alfred Caldwell. Image courtesy Deborah and Richard Polansky.
?The house is not a machine for living?it is the man?s sense of himself,? Alfred Caldwell once said. And in designing his own home and farm compound in rural Wisconsin, Caldwell forged a bridge between Jens Jensen?s Prairie style and International style modernism, an intersection of design currents that never solidified as much as its forebears. His most cherished project might be Chicago?s Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, where whorls of meandering paths orbit and shield views around a pond and an earthy, horizontal pavilion. But he was also one of the first American faculty members hired by Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and his lush landscape at the architect?s austere Lafayette Park neighborhood in Detroit provides a poetic counterpoint to van der Rohe?s crystalline rationality. The landscape architecture school of the IIT is offering a multidisciplinary slate of programming through winter, ?Alfred Caldwell and the Performance of Democracy,? which will harness the midcentury landscape architect?s legacy and character into a series of performances and archive workshops the school hopes will bring both greater public appreciation and study within the discipline.
Caldwell Farm. Image courtesy Ron Henderson, FASLA.
Funded by the Graham Foundation, the series began in March with a lecture by Thomas Dyja, the author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dre...
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