Living Architecture - Hardcover

O'gorman, James F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684836181 ISBN 13: 9780684836188

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

A gracefully written, detailed portrait of the most prominent American architect of the nineteenth century--the first biography of its subject--features 150 color and black-and-white photographs of his buildings, from Boston's Trinity Church to Chicago's Glessner House. 10,000 first printing.

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Review:

An atmospheric text resonates more profoundly thanks to some 150 photographs capturing the quiet grandeur of the buildings designed by Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86). Born in Louisiana, Richardson made his career in the North, aided by his personal charm and the social connections he made while a Harvard undergraduate. He invented American architecture with masterpieces of vigorous historicism such as Boston's Trinity Church; even the modernists who followed were influenced by Richardson's veneration of architecture as important public art. Architecture historian James F. O'Gorman evaluates his subject's work and life appreciatively but with discernment.

From Library Journal:

O'Gorman is the foremost authority on Richardson, having authored H.H. Richardson: Architectural Forms for an American Society (Univ. of Chicago, 1987) and half a dozen books on related topics. Together with Jeffrey Earl Ochsner's H.H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works (1984), this thoughtful and learned biography completes our knowledge of the life and achievements of America's greatest 19th-century architect. Richardson emerges in this study as a paradox: a Southerner who worked in the North, a sensitive artist who worked for industrial barons, and a fashioner of dignified, weighty homes who lived in an ill-proportioned, rented "Jamaican Planter's" house in suburban Brookline. Robinson's photographs are simply among the best; never before has Richardson's architecture been seen to greater effect. For larger general public and academic collections and all American architecture collections.?Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684836181
• ISBN 13: 9780684836188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224