Calvert Vaux FAIA (/ vɔːks /; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer. He and his protégé Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City and the Delaware Park–Front Park System in Buffalo, New York.

He was born in London and educated at the Merchant Taylors' School in Rickmansworth, but left at age fourteen to serve an apprenticeship under Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, the noted architect who pioneered the study of Medieval Gothic architecture.

2024年7月2日 · When Calvert Vaux (1824–1895) immigrated to America in 1850 from his native Britain, he found that the modern arts of architecture and landscape architecture were in their infancy here. Over his long career, which ended with his death in 1895 at age seventy, he worked to put both disciplines on a firm professional basis.

Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer best known for co-designing Central Park in New York City with Frederick Law Olmsted. Vaux was born in London and studied architecture in England before immigrating to the United States in 1850, to work with Andrew Jackson Downing, the father of American landscape ...

…1850s and designed by architects Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, became a widely imitated model. Among its contributions were the separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the creation of a romantic landscape within the heart of the city, and a demonstration that the creation of parks could greatly enhance…

One of the least appreciated pioneers of the American park movement is Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), a man who collaborated with both Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted. Born in England, Vaux trained there to be an architect under Lewis N. Cottingham, a champion of the Gothic Revival and the owner of an architectural museum.

After Downing’s death in 1852, Vaux continued to practice architecture. In 1857, Vaux convinced the city of New York to have a competition for a new design for a major public park, known today as Central Park.

Calvert Vaux [†] was an American landscape gardener. Together with Frederick Law Olmsted he planned Central Park, New York, the prototype of large, accessible, nature-like city parks.

Calvert Vaux, born in London's Pudding Lane in 1824, was trained in the English method as an apprentice to the architect Lewis Hockalls Cottingham. While noted for his careful restoration work bn Gothic cathedrals, Cottingham also designed country manor estates.

An Englishman by birth, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) was instrumental in defining the new profession of landscape architecture at a time when the definition of many such things, be they professions, academic fields of inquiry, or philosophical …