The past two years have witnessed the tragic loss of several truly talented thinkers and makers of the American landscape, not the least of whom was Alfred Caldwell, who died this past summer. Caldwell, an apprentice to Jens Jensen in the late 1920s, made his impact on American landscape architecture as a disciple of the so-called Prairie School of landscape design. Caldwell's Prairie School work not only used native species, but also distilled regional ecological conditions into landscape forms, transforming parks and gardens throughout the Midwest— Chicago, in particular—into places of local meaning.
展开▼
