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Harvard: An Architectural History (Belknap Press)

by Bainbridge Bunting

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard's architecture--from the purchase of William Peyntree's house in 1638 to the construction of the Sackler Museum, opening in 1985.

Review:

Partly because it has never had...a single stylistic motif, Harvard has become a living museum of almost every trend in the history of American architecture. [This] is the fullest account yet written of Harvard's buildings...an indispensable narrative and reference.

Review:

Partly because it has never had...a single stylistic motif, Harvard has become a living museum of almost every trend in the history of American architecture. [This] is the fullest account yet written of Harvard'sbuildings...an indispensable narrative and reference.

Review:

All [Bunting's] strengths are here, most notably his insistence on studying architecture in the broadest cultural and historical context...Floyd has augmented the late Bainbridge Bunting's manuscript...with her own considerable scholarly knowledge of the subject...The results are exceptional.
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Table of Contents

1. Seventeenth-Century Harvard

2. The Brick Quadrangles

3. The Early Nineteenth Century

4. President Eliot and the Harvard Yard

5. The North Yard and Soldiers Field

6. Buildings for Radcliffe College

7. Academic Building under President Lowell

8. The River Houses and the South Yard

9. President Coriant, Gropius, and Modernism

10. President Pusey and the Program for Harvard College

11. The New Harvard

Notes

Chronological List of Buildings

Illustration Credits

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780674372917
Subtitle:
An Architectural History
Editor:
Floyd, Margaret Henderson
Author:
Bunting, Bainbridge
Author:
Floyd, Margaret Henderson
Publisher:
Belknap Press
Subject:
History - General
Subject:
Higher
Subject:
History
Subject:
Buildings
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
U.S. Architecture - General
Subject:
General Architecture
Subject:
History : General
Subject:
Harvard University - Buildings - History
Copyright:
1985
Edition Number:
2
Series:
Belknap Press
Publication Date:
October 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
366
Dimensions:
10.97x8.06x.76 in. 2.51 lbs.
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