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...