George Washington, Architect
This year is the bicentennial of Washington's death, and the flood of tributary books continues. Greenberg, an architect and architectural historian, furnishes an unusual perspective as he views Washington as a gifted and influential landscape architect and city planner. Greenberg stresses Washington's firm grasp of the political role that architecture could play in fostering a republican spirit in the infant nation. His role in the planning of the design and construction of our nation's capital is covered here in often fascinating detail. The illustrations, including extensive blueprints of Mt. Vernon, support a highly readable, nontechnical text that should interest artists, architects, and historians.Jay Freeman