Academia - Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States

A spectacularly illustrated survey of the architectural style that defined the American college campus. The Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America’s relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash-up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave rise — at schools like Princeton and Vassar, Yale and Chicago — to unprecedented architectural fantasies that reshaped the image of the college campus. Today the ivy-covered monuments of Collegiate Gothic still exercise a powerful hold on the public imagination — as evidenced, for example, by their prominent place in the Dark Academia aesthetic that has swept social media. In Academia, the noted architectural historian William Morgan traces the entire arc of Collegiate Gothic, from its first emergence at campuses like Kenyon and Bowdoin to its apotheosis in James Gamble Rogers’s intricately detailed confections at Yale. Ever alert to the complicated cultural and social implications of this style, Morgan devotes special sections to its manifestations at prep schools and in the American South, and to contemporary revivals by architects like Robert A. M. Stern. Illustrated throughout with well-chosen colour photographs, Academia offers the ultimate campus tour of our faux-medieval cathedrals of learning.

General

Imprint:	Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2023
Authors:	William Morgan
Dimensions:	304 x 228mm (L x W)
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-7892-1468-3
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-7892-1468-7
Barcode:	9780789214683

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