<p>The standing of the Yale Center for British Art as one of the world's great museums and study centers finds expression in its remarkable building, designed by Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974). In this important and innovative volume, two architects offer a plan to ensure the proper stewardship of the building in order to preserve its essence as a great architectural structure. Peter Inskip and Stephen Gee describe the design, construction, and subsequent renovation of the building; assess its cultural significance; analyze the materials that comprise it (steel, concrete, glass, white oak, and travertine); and shed light on its evolution over the four decades since it was built. Drawing on their extensive experience developing conservation plans for both historic sites and modern buildings, they propse a series of policies for the Center's conservation into the future. </p>

Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan

Arts & Photography

Gee, Stephen

Inskip, Peter

Architecture

Yale Center for British Art

<p>Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869 – 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime, Lutyens was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". Lutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India. In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is also known as "Lutyens' Delhi". In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker, he was also the main architect of several monuments in New Delhi such as the India Gate; he also designed Viceroy's House, which is now known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Many of his works were inspired by Indian architecture. This book is No. 6 in Rizzoli’s Architecture Monographs series.</p>

Edwin Lutyens

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Academy Editions

The essays in this volume were presented at the symposium 'An English Arcadia: Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America', held at the Huntington on 26 and 27 October 1991. Contents: At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain; Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden; Appropriation and Adaptation: Early Gardening Literature in America; Love and Death across an English Garden: Constable's Paintings of His Family's Flower and Kitchen Gardens; Politics and the English Landscape since the First World War; The Case Study of Stowe; Discoveries, Challenges, and Moral Dilemmas in the Restoration of the Garden Building at Stowe; The Park and Garden Survey at Stowe: The Replanting and Restoration of the Historical Landscape.

An English Arcadia

Ritvo, Harriet

WHEELER, RICHARD

Mandler, Peter

Daniels, Stephen

Bending, Stephen

O'Malley, Therese

Clarke, George

Huntington Library Pr

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