Buffalo architectural guidebook (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 336 pages. Cover slightly worn Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attentio n of several prominent historians, whose work here is accompanied by over 250 il lustrations and photographs.For its size, the city of Buffalo, New York, possesses a remarkable number and variety of architectural masterpieces from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Adler and Sullivan's Prudential building, H. H. Richardson's massive Buffalo State Hospital, Richard Upjohn's Sr . Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, five prairie houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and bui lding by Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn, and the firms of McKim, Mead, and White, a nd Lockwood, Green and Company, among others.These structures by prominen t outsiders served to spur the efforts of local architects, builders, and craf tsmen, and all of them built within the context of the city-wide park and parkwa y system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition, the city and its enviro ns exhibit representative works by more recent architects, among them Eero and E liel Saarinen, Walther Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudloph, Minoru Yamasaki, an d the firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historian s, capable of the challenge of evaluating its significance. Reyner Banham is one of the world's leading authorities on the theory and practice of architecture, and he has written extensively on design in the industrial age (and Buffalo's in novative manufacturing plants and grain elevators are important exemplars of suc h design). Charles Beveridge, whose essay covers the park and parkway system, is editor of the Olmsted papers at The American University. And Henry Russell Hitc.…

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