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Although he was known in his own time as a leader of the so-called Romanesque Revival, the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86) is today regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture — a man who, in the words of Lewis Mumford, “created out of a confusion which was actually worse than a mere void the beginnings of a new architecture.”This appreciative presentation of his life and work, first published two years after Richardson's death, is the foundation of all research on the subject; it includes plans, photographs, and detailed discussions of all of Richardson's major buildings — churches, commercial and civic structures, railroad stations, libraries, dwelling houses and other forms of architecture in American cities and towns from Boston to St. Louis. These buildings reveal the qualities in Richardson's work that made him both a prophet of culture and a remnant of the past — his assimilation of the Romanesque style, the functional disposition of the parts in his buildings and expressive use of materials, and especially the use of the windows as an integral part of the interior development rather than of the façade alone.The author begins with Richardson's

Author

Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer; Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486223209

Subjects

Architecture, Biography, Computer Science