Alfred Caldwell was an American architect best known for his landscape architecture in and around Chicago, Illinois.
10 Facts About Alfred Caldwell
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Caldwell and his wife Virginia had a daughter, Carol Caldwell Dooley, born on January 25,1931, and a son, James Allen Caldwell, born on December 12,1933.
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Alfred Caldwell received a Master of Science in city planning from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1948.
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Alfred Caldwell attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but left before completing a degree.
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Alfred Caldwell was hired by Mies van der Rohe in 1944 to teach landscape architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture.
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Alfred Caldwell resigned in 1959 in response to a dispute with the college administration.
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In 1980, Alfred Caldwell received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Chicago chapter of the AIA.
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Alfred Caldwell's buildings are frequently mistaken for the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Alfred Caldwell stressed the importance of orientation for passive solar design, as well as integration of the structure into the landscape.
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Alfred Caldwell died at the age of 95 at his Bristol, Wisconsin, farm on July 3,1998.