Henry Hobson Richardson. A genius for architecture. Photographs by Paul Rocheleau
Margaret Henderson Floyd was a professor in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Tufts University. She specialized in the architecture of 1750 to the present, with special emphasis on the aesthetic of Boston Back Bay and New England. Her previous books includeArchitecture After Richardson: Regionalism Before Modernism -- Longfellow, Alden and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh;Harvard: An Architectural Historywith Bainbridge Bunting; andArchitectural Education and Boston: Centennial Publication of the Boston Architectural Center.Among Paul Rocheleau's books areAmerican Colonial: Puritan Simplicity to Georgian Grace; Farm: The Vernacular Tradition of Working Buildings;Harlem: Lost and Found;andShaker Built: The Form and Function of Shaker Architecture.