Customer Review: Henry Hobson Richardson was the most influential architect in America after the Civil War and can be credited from rescuing much of the country tepid Victorianism. An alumni of Harvard and the École des Beaux-Arts, he invented a rich, highly evocative, and enduring style that was instantly... more info
Customer Review: This is just the kind of big, sumptuous, exhaustive book that Richardson has always deserved. Part coffee-table book, part monograph----entertaining, informative, great to look through. I grew up near Boston and Richardson's churches, train depots, and libraries were a part of the background until I... more info
Customer Review: A concise and thoughtful work; a scholarly yet very easy read.
O'Gorman's positioning of Richardson's work as a manifestation of Emerson's call for 'an American beauty' to arise from the 'shop and the mill' as well as the 'field and roadside' is spot-on.
This approach resonated through... more info
Customer Review: This is the classic biography of Henry Hobson Richardson. Born in Louisiana (1838) and kept by a speech impediment from attending West Point, he attended Harvard and the École des Beaux-Arts and subsequently became the most influential American architect of his time (1866-86). His work was... more info
Related
Sections
