Title & Author:

Buffalo architecture : a guide / introductions by Reyner Banham, Charles Beveridge, Henry-Russell Hitchcock ; text by Francis R. Kowsky [and others] ; sponsored by the Buffalo Architectural Guidebook Corporation.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1981.

Description:

xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index.
[Table of Contents] -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction / Reyner Banham -- Buffalo's Park and Parkway System / Charles Beveridge -- Buffalo Architecture in 1940 / Heenry-Russell Hitchcock -- THE CITY OF BUFFALO -- 1. Downtown -- 2. West Side -- 3. Black Rock and Riverside -- 4. North Park and Central Park -- 5. Kensington-Bailey -- 6. 4t East Side -- 7. South Buffalo and South Park -- 8. Lost Buffalo -- WESTERN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN ONTARIO -- 9. Erie County -- 10. Niagara County -- 11. Other Western New York Counties -- 12. Southern Ontario -- Architectural Biographies -- Selected Bibliography -- Credits -- Index.
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Text in English.

Summary:

"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 St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, five Prairie Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, and buildings by Daniel Burnham, Albert Kahn, and the firms McKim, Mead and White and Lockwood, Greene and Company, among others. These structures by prominent "outsiders" served to spur the efforts of local architects, builders and craftsmen, and all of them built within the context of the city-wide park and parkway system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition, the city and its environs exhibit representative works by more recent architects, among them Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, Minoru Yamasaki, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, who have written essays for the guidebook. 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 (of which Buffalo's innovative manufacturing plants and grain elevators are important exemplars). Charles Beveridge, whose essay covers the park and parkway system, is editor of the Olmsted papers at the American University. And Henry-Russell Hitchcock is the dean of American architectural historians and the organizer of a 1940 exhibition on Buffalo's built environment. Their essays are followed by seven sections that delineate the city's neighborhoods, each provided with a map, neighborhood history, and a full complement of photographs with descriptive building captions. An eighth section, "Lost Buffalo," describes demolished buildings, chief among them Wright's great Larkin Administration Building, while the remaining sections venture out of town, exploring Erie and Niagara Counties, other parts of Western New York, and Southern Ontario." -- Front Inside Cover.
Buffalo's rich architectural and planning heritage has attracted the attention of several prominent historians, whose work here is accompanied by over 250 illustrations and photographs.

ISBN:

0262021722
9780262021722
026252063X (pbk.)
9780262520638 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture New York (State) Buffalo Guidebooks.
Buildings New York (State) Buffalo Guidebooks.
Architecture New York (État) Buffalo Guides.
Constructions New York (État) Buffalo Guides.
Architecture
Buildings
Kunstführer
Buffalo (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Buffalo (N.Y.) Guidebooks.
Buffalo (N.Y.) Constructions Guides.
New York (State) Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo (N.Y.)

Form/genre:

Kunstführer.
Guidebooks

Added entries:

Banham, Reyner, writer of introduction.
Beveridge, Charles E., writer of introduction.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987, writer of introduction.
Kowsky, Francis R., 1943-
Buffalo Architectural Guidebook Corporation.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 7244
Call No.: NA735.B83 (7732)
Status: Available

Location: Library main 7243
Call No.: NA735.B83 (ID:85-B5034)
Status: Available