Buildings of Peter Harrison
Subtitle: Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780786479627
Subjects: Harrison, peter, 1716-1775; Architecture, united states
Description: "Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died. He was born in Yorkshire and trained to be an architect. He also became a ship captain, sailed to America where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings"--