Americans in Paris
Subtitle: foundations of America's architectural gilded age : architecture students at the École des Beaux-Arts, 1846-1946
By: Jean Paul Carlhian and Margot M. Ellis
Contributors: Ellis, Margot M., author
Series: Classical America; Classical America
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780847843404
Subjects: Architecture; French influences; History; Architects; Biography; Eclecticism in architecture; École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)
Description: "This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of the seminal early work of a century of American architects--including Richard Morris Hunt, H. H. Richardson, Raymond Hood, and Charles Follen McKim--who studied at the prestigious and influential École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, before going on to design and build many of this nation's most important buildings and monuments."--Cover, page [4].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.