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Downing Vaux (November 14, 1856 – May 15, 1926) was an American landscape architect. Vaux was one of the eleven founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 1899.
1856 - 1926. Downing Vaux. Pioneer Information. Son of Calvert Vaux, he was named after his father’s mentor and former partner, Andrew Jackson Downing. Shortly after his birth, his father and Fredrick Law Olmsted, Sr., began collaboration on their plan for Central Park.
In 1850, Vaux exhibited a series of watercolor landscapes that he made while en route to the United States that caught the attention of Andrew Jackson Downing, a noted landscape architect in Newburgh, New York.
30. Aug. 2018 · Downing gave birth to Central Park and landscape architecture in America. His partner, Calvert Vaux teamed up with Frederick Law Olmsted to create and execute a concept for Central Park as a natural landscape, a greensward filled with millions of trees, over 800 acres of public open space in the heart of Manhattan. Their vision in ...
1824 - 1895. Calvert Vaux. Pioneer Information. Born in England and trained as an architect, Vaux came to America in 1850 to collaborate with Andrew Jackson Downing on Picturesque estate landscape projects.
Downing Park was designed in the late 19 th century by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. It was the last collaboration between the two men. Both of their sons— John Charles Olmsted and Downing Vaux— were also heavily involved.
He came to America to serve as assistant, and then partner, to landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing. 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.
