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