Hugh Howard

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1) Architects of an American landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of Americas public and private spaces

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Language

English

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"As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Biltmore's parkland in Asheville, dozens of...

2) How old is this house?

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Howard, Hugh

Publisher

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Pub. Date

1989

Language

English

3) The painter's chair: George Washington and the making of American art

Author

Howard, Hugh

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

4) Architecture's odd couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

Author

Howard, Hugh

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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"In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906-2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless...