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In the final decade of the nineteenth century and the early
twentieth century, the United States experienced exponential growth
and a flourishing economy, and with it, a building boom. Grosvenor
Atterbury (1869–1956) produced more than one hundred major
projects, including an array of grand mansions, picturesque
estates, informal summer cottages, and farm groups. However, it was
his role as town planner and civic leader and his work to create
model tenements, hospitals, workers’ housing, and town plans for
which he is most celebrated. His Forest Hills Gardens, designed in
association with the Olmsted Brothers, is lauded as one of the most
highly significant community planning projects of its time. As an
inventor, Atterbury was responsible for one of the country’s
first low-cost, prefabricated concrete construction systems,
introducing beauty and inexpensive good design into the lives of
the working classes. The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury is the
first book to showcase the rich and varied repertoire of this
prolific architect whose career spanned six decades and whose work
affected the course of American architecture, planning, and
construction. Illustrated with Jonathan Wallen’s stunning color
photographs and over 250 historic drawings, plans, and photographs,
it also includes a catalogue raisonné and an employee roster. It
is the definitive source on an architect who made an indelible
imprint on the American landscape.
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