Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment, 1876-1925

by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

Book Overview

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening, and landscape design, works that provide a rare view of cities and rural environments in turn-of-the-century America. Now David Gebhard brings Van Rensselaer's significant writings together in one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520315855
• ISBN13: 9780520315853
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"