Railroad Station: An Architectural History

by Carroll L. V. Meeks

Profusely illustrated book chronicles the evolution of the architecture of the railroad station in both Europe and America from the 1830s to the 1950s. "Carefully documented by all the apparatus of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300007647
• ISBN13: 9780300007640
• Release Date: October 1975
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Pioneering Study

This is the first work of which I know to look at 19th and 20th century architecture in a broad context, rather than the famous "war of styles." It is common now to speak of 'Victorian architecture' as opposed to 'Modern architecture,' but the idea that Victorian styles had more similarity than difference seems to have been put forward for the first time here. It also hints that the same is true for various flavors of Modernism, and indeed, that the two supposed antitheses are simply positions along a spectrum. This is done through a tightly limited survey of a very specific, though widespread type, the railroad station. If I recall correctly, there are some pictures, but the book is more of interest to historians and architectural theorists than to rail buffs.