Building Buffalo
Subtitle: buildings from books, books from buildings : books on architecture & landscape from the Rare Book Collection of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
By: Nicholas Adams, Francis R. Kowsky, Amy Pickard
Contributors: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
Publisher: Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9780692819838
Subjects: Architecture; Exhibitions; Architectural libraries; Bibliography; Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.). Rare Book Room; Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.).; Buffalo and Erie County Public Library (N.Y.)
Description: "This catalogue complements an exhibition of books generously given or carefully purchased to help Buffalo grow into a great metropolitan center. Collectively these books formed a comprehensive source of knowledge with which the Young Men's Association, the Buffalo Public and Grosvenor libraries--unified in 1953 as the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library--sought to educate architects and the public in the traditions that influenced our built environment. These volumes comprise only a portion of the architectural books housed in the library's Rare Book collection, which is one of the oldest and most extensive in an American public library. They are as much a part of Western New York's cultural heritage as its museums, parks, concert halls, theaters, and historic buildings. These enduring chronicles of the world's greatest architectural ideas supplemented the imaginations of the architects who shaped Buffalo. The ideas and images in these beautiful volumes helped build the buildings and landscapes that transformed Buffalo from a frontier village to a national metropolis."--Book flap.
Notes: This publication was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Building Buffalo : Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings ; Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, Downtown Central Library.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Jack Connors and Mary Jean Jakubowski; title: Battling for architecture: building the collections at the Buffalo Public and Grosvenor Libraries / Nicholas Adams, Francis R. Kowsky, and Amy Pickard; title: Buildings from books, books from buildings / Nicholas Adams; title: Reading buildings in Buffalo / Francis R. Kowsky; title: Works on exhibit; title: Further reading.