Career
- Attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, left before completing a degree.
- 1926-1931 Worked for landscape architect Jens Jensen (landscape architect).
- 1931-1933 private practice.
- 1933-1936 Superintendent of Parks, Dubuque, Iowa.
- 1936-1939 landscape designer, Chicago Park District.
- 1944-1959 Hired by Mies van der Rohe to teach landscape architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture. Caldwell resigned in 1959 in relation to dispute with the college administration.
- 1965 taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
- 1965-1973 taught at University of Southern California.
- 1980 awarded the Distinguished Educator Award from the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
- 1981 returned to teaching at IIT.
Succeeded in his IIT teaching role by former student Paul Thomas.
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