Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works

by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer and Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486223205
• ISBN13: 9780486223209
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.8"