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LIFE AND ARCHITECTURE IN PITTSBURGH
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Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA, 1983
ISBN 10: 0916670082
ISBN 13: 9780916670085
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx, 395, [1] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Plate signed by the author on the title page. DJ has some wear, soiling, and edge tears. James Denholm Van Trump (1908-1995) enrolled at Carnegie Tech (now CMU) in 1926, and in 1927 transferred to the University of Pittsburgh. He graduated with majors in English literature and fine arts (1931), and went on to receive his M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932. After his official schooling, Van Trump continued to study the history and architecture of Pittsburgh, working as an architectural historian for a museum-extension project and with the War Production Board during the Second World War. In 1956, Van Trump published his first scholarly article in The Charette, "Pittsburgh's Church of the Ascension." He continued to write for The Charette (serving as editor), and also published in Carnegie Magazine, Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, and The Pittsburgher. James Van Trump co-founded the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, quickly becoming one of the most influential and well-known architectural historians in the Pittsburgh region. James D. Van Trump continued to serve as PHLF's Architectural Historian until his retirement in 1978, although he remained active in the historical field until his death, writing, publishing and continuing to speak on Pittsburgh regional radio. Throughout his life, James D. Van Trump was both influential and prolific, publishing, among many other works, over 500 articles, 3 books, monographs, television and radio scripts, and speeches. From an appreciation by Arthur Ziegler, who with van Trump, co-founded the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation: His writings take the form of personal essays. During most of his life, he has kept a journal in which he has recorded thoughts, ideas, events, but most often in which he has described an experience of the day. For years he had dinner at the Press Club, atop an older downtown skyscraper, where he could look up the Allegheny River and toward the hills to the north. Night after night he described in his journal what he saw: the same scene repeated but each time different because of the sun, or clouds, or cold, or a change in his own feelings, or - most often- because "a chance word, a fugitive view aroused some sleeping memory." Moment to moment, building to building, event to event, Jamie moves and Jamie remembers. His work is an integration of a random journal among those misty corridors of our communal mind and an exacting knowledge of what was built and what happened in relation to those buildings. It is the expression of a unique sensibility as it plays over all of its becoming, and the emotional effect knowledge and experience have had. He is not lost in a romantic past; he is captivated by its existence, and by its recurrence in many forms in the present. "All things change, yet all things stay the same," he often reminds us. Many cities have their historians. I know of none which has an interpreter of the experiences of the past that have affected people, accretion by accretion, who offers them up in such a sumptuous style, beautiful as an art in itself. Jamie reminds us that our buildings reflect lives; they express and symbolize those people who were involved in creating and in using them - and he renders for us with endearment the things that we may have put away, or not even noticed. Here, in a permanent, readily-accessible form, is a selection of the writings of James D. Van Trump, otherwise to be found only in old magazine volumes, ephemeral newspaper supplements, and manuscripts never printed. Representation of his varied writing career, the pieces reprinted here includes his basic, authoritative works of architectural history, his essays on the way life was early in this century , and his personal reflections. James D. Van Trump was the supreme historian of the architecture of the Pittsburgh area. It was his study for over fifty years; he lived with most of the architecture he describes, had observed it in use, and had researched its origins. Among some of the topics addressed are Architecture, Pittsburgh, City Hall, Peter Berndtson, Heinz Hall, Old Post Office, Duquesne Gardens, Henry Hornbostel, Webster Hall, Henry Hobson Richardson, Skyscraper, Greek Revival, Frederick Scheibler, Art Deco, Phipps Conservatory, David Gilmour Blythe, Luke Swank, Schumann, Highland Park, John Notman. Seller Inventory # 88117