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Living architecture : a biography of H. H. Richardson /

By:

O'Gorman, James F

Contributor(s):

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0684836181 :

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

720/.92 B 21

LOC classification:

NA737.R5 O38 1997

Contents:

Cincinnati: 1885 -- New Orleans: 1838-55 -- Cambridge: 1855-59 -- Paris: 1859-65 -- New York: 1865-74 -- Trinity Church: 1872-77 -- Brookline: 1874-82 -- Europe: 1882 -- Studio days: 1880s -- Last works: 1882-86.

Summary: Fascinating, important, and lushly illustrated, Living Architecture is the first biography of nineteenth-century America's greatest architect and the first full-color treatment of his rich and marvelous work. Written by James F. O'Gorman, the leading Richardson scholar, and photographed by Cervin Robinson, this compelling volume situates the architect's life and work within the shifting context of post-Civil War society. As a member of that generation of giants who brought American culture to maturity in the 1870s, Richardson, like Winslow Homer, Mark Twain, and Emily Dickinson, created an aesthetic distinct from its European origins, an architecture rooted in the American land and expressive of the new American urban forms. Richly detailed, thoughtfully organized, and brilliantly formed, Richardson's architecture originated a series of new building types for America's emerging social pattern, including cosmopolitan corporate icons for downtown and natural residential forms for the suburbs and the country. Trinity Church, the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago, the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail in Pittsburgh, academic buildings at Harvard, and elegant private homes for such cultural and business elites as the Adamses, Hayses, and Ameses - these and other buildings defined Richardson's aesthetic and helped establish a new American architecture.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA737.R5 O38 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001333

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