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<p>Constructed over a century ago, the buildings of Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886), America's leading architect at the end of the nineteenth century, brought international acclaim to American architecture. During his twenty-one-year career, Richardson drew inspiration from many wellsprings of medievalism, thus placing his work within the Arts and Crafts tradition. His architecture came to be recognized as quintessentially American, and it inspired and greatly influenced the work of others who followed him, most notably Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Richardson's powerful, unified structures — in which vernacular, provincial, and primitive sources fuse with an elemental consciousness of natural environment and regional landscape — expressed the spirit of his own era yet transcended time, and today still stand as an inimitable bridge between the past and the future.<br> <br> This unparalleled publication pairs the research of a renowned architectural historian and the vision of an exceptional architectural photographer, producing the first full-color critical review of this important architect's work. Margaret Henderson Floyd illuminates new and surprising aspects of Ri
- Author
- Margaret Henderson Floyd; photographs by Paul Rocheleau
- Publisher
- The Monacelli Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781885254702
- Subjects
- Architecture, Art, Engineering
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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