Inventing the New American House: Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect

by Stuart Cohen

A timely reappraisal of the importance of Howard Van Doren Shaw, a country house architect better known in his day than Frank Lloyd Wright but now an obscure figure.

Howard Van Doren Shaw designed stately country houses in and around Chicago - from affluent Lake Forest, Illinois, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Indiana - from 1894 to 1926, a period in American architecture that spanned the Gilded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158093420X
• ISBN13: 9781580934206
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.8" x 12.2"