Accents as well as broad effects : writings on architecture, landscape, and the environment, 1876-1925 / Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer ; selected and edited by David Gebhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934.

Contributor:

Gebhard, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934--Aesthetics.

Van Rensselaer, Schuyler.

Van Rensselaer, Schuyler, Mrs., 1851-1934.

Architecture--United States--History--19th century.

Architecture.

Landscape architecture.

History.

Architectural criticism.

Aesthetics.

United States.

Architectural criticism--United States.

Landscape architecture--United States--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

viii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]

Summary:

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) is highly regarded among architectural historians for her 1888 biography of the nineteenth-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Less well known are her writings on architecture, decorative art, gardening, and landscape design, works that provide a rare view of cities and rural environments in turn-of-the-century America. Now David Gebhard brings Van Rensselaer's most significant writings together in one volume. An established critic in environmental and literary circles, Van Rensselaer wrote for the general public in such journals as the Century Magazine and for a specialized audience of landscape architects in Garden and Forest. She was a long-time contributor to American Architect and Building News, the first architectural journal in the United States. She is an engaging and accessible writer, and her articles on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Public Library won great praise. Although the only woman in a field that was male-dominated at the time, Van Rensselaer was, curiously enough, opposed to women's suffrage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-361) and index.

ISBN:

0520201264

OCLC:

32548496