Gates of Harvard Yard /anglais - Softcover

"As Kamin and his co-authors reveal in a series of essays, these gates contain meaning far beyond their simple iron shapes and symbols. " - Curbed "here we have a book that's more than just a good read.it's time to open up all of Harvard's gates, restore their meaning and revel in their beauty." - Huffington Post "Until this publication, the story of the gates had never been fully told..[a] revealing study." - Design New England "From their architectural makeup to the range of people who funded their construction, Kamin and his co-authors work to convey the gates' historic beauty, which goes beyond their entrance, exit, and prohibitive purposes." - Boston Magazine "Gates are for getting through, but Kamin, his fellow instructors, and their students ask us to pause and contemplate. From gates, the neo-Georgian style spread to buildings and made much of the Harvard we know today." - Harvard Magazine "To Blair Kamin.the wrought-iron gates that ring the campus green at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., are. storytellers through design and time capsules of university history, which he and the students he taught.explore in the book "Gates of Harvard Yard."Its thoughtful essays examine the 25 gates surrounding the yard." - The New York Times "Many endearing details and quirks of history emerge from the pages of this small, delightful book." - Architecture Boston

Offering the complete, never-before-told story of the twenty-five gates that form portals to Harvard Yard, this beautiful gift book recounts the aesthetic vision for America's preeminent university, developed by renowned architecture firm McKim, Mead & White. The book discusses the architectural intentions of the gates, as well as the human drama behind their fruition-tales of wealth, power, and institutional and personal ambition. Illustrated with previously unpublished sketches by Roger Erickson, architect and landscape architect; stunning colour photographs of each gate by Ralph Lieberman; and a beautiful hand-drawn three-dimensional aerial map of Harvard Yard that denotes the location of each gate by RISD graduate student Christopher Beck.