Architecture in New York: A Photographic History - Paperback

by Wayne Andrews (Author)

In the many photographs magnificently reproduced in this collection, Andrews has captured the incredible range of the architecture of New York State, from Manhattan Island to Chautauqua County. Something of the scope of this work is indicated by the fact that A. J. Davis, Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, Richard M. Hunt, Henry Hardenbergh, Daniel Burnham, Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert, John Russell Pope, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Eliel Saarincn, and Paul Rudolph are among the architects whose works are illustrated.

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Andrews has captured the incredible range of the architecture of New York State, from Manhattan Island to Chautauqua County. Almost 200 of the 250 well-reproduced photographs in this book are by the author, a widely known architectural photographer.

Author Biography

Wayne Andrews was Curator of Manuscripts at the New York Historical Society and Archives of American Art Professor at Wayne State University. A former President of the New York Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, he was the author of numerous books, including The Vanderbilt Legend, Architecture, Ambition, and Americans, and Architecture in America.