Harvard: An Architectural History
Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard’s architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting, author of Houses of Boston’s Back Bay. The book examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H. H. Richardson’s Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, as well as the work of such esteemed architects as Charles McKim, Gropius, and Le Corbusier—and it shows us how they all come together to form an amazingly coherent whole. This lively story of a university campus is a veritable microcosm of American architectural experience.
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Harvard: An Architectural History
Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard’s architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting, author of Houses of Boston’s Back Bay. The book examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H. H. Richardson’s Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, as well as the work of such esteemed architects as Charles McKim, Gropius, and Le Corbusier—and it shows us how they all come together to form an amazingly coherent whole. This lively story of a university campus is a veritable microcosm of American architectural experience.
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Harvard: An Architectural History

Harvard: An Architectural History

Harvard: An Architectural History

Harvard: An Architectural History

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Here is an incisive and fully illustrated history of Harvard’s architecture told by the distinguished architectural historian Bainbridge Bunting, author of Houses of Boston’s Back Bay. The book examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H. H. Richardson’s Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, as well as the work of such esteemed architects as Charles McKim, Gropius, and Le Corbusier—and it shows us how they all come together to form an amazingly coherent whole. This lively story of a university campus is a veritable microcosm of American architectural experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674372917
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/1998
Series: Belknap Press Series
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 366
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Bainbridge Bunting was Director of the Cambridge Historical Commission's Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge.

Margaret Henderson Floyd’s knowledge of Boston architecture and her long association with Bainbridge Bunting enabled her to complete Harvard: An Architectural History after his death.

Table of Contents

1. Seventeenth-Century Harvard

2. The Brick Quadrangles

3. The Early Nineteenth Century

4. President Eliot and the Harvard Yard

5. The North Yard and Soldiers Field

6. Buildings for Radcliffe College

7. Academic Building under President Lowell

8. The River Houses and the South Yard

9. President Coriant, Gropius, and Modernism

10. President Pusey and the Program for Harvard College

11. The New Harvard

Notes

Chronological List of Buildings

Illustration Credits

Index

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