Michael J. Lewis is the author of nine books on art and architecture, including Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind, The Gothic Revival, and City of Refuge. He is the architecture critic at the Wall Street Journal, and his essays and reviews have been published in the New York Times, Commentary, New Criterion, and Architectural Record, among others. Lewis is the Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College, and divides his time between Williamstown, MA and Philadelphia.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. William Penn's Modest Utopia 2. William Birch and the Culture of Architecture in Philadelphia 3. The Author of Fairmount Park 4. "Facts and Things, Not Words and Signs": The Idea of Girard College 5. The Strange Germanness of the Academy of Music 6. "Silent, Weird, Beautiful": The Making of Philadelphia City Hall 7. The Carpenter: Owen Biddle 8. The Namesake: Peter Angelo Nicholson 9. The Impresario: Edwin Forrest Durang 10. Incognito at Haverford: George Senneff 11. The Bibliophile: Henry A. Sims 12. "He was not a Connoisseur": Peter Widener and His House 13. The Last Quaker: Robert Venturi 14. Frank Furness at Thirty: The Armory of the First City Troop 15. Louis Kahn at Thirty: The Lenin Memorial in Leningrad 16. Frank Furness, Perpetual Motion, and "The Captain's Trousers" 17. Breakthrough at Bryn Mawr: Louis Kahn's Erdman Dormitory 18. Gehry at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 19. Trashing the President's House 20. The "New" Barnes 21. A Museum that Overcomes its Correctness 22. My Favorite Building: Pembroke, Bryn Mawr College
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. William Penn's Modest Utopia 2. William Birch and the Culture of Architecture in Philadelphia 3. The Author of Fairmount Park 4. "Facts and Things, Not Words and Signs": The Idea of Girard College 5. The Strange Germanness of the Academy of Music 6. "Silent, Weird, Beautiful": The Making of Philadelphia City Hall 7. The Carpenter: Owen Biddle 8. The Namesake: Peter Angelo Nicholson 9. The Impresario: Edwin Forrest Durang 10. Incognito at Haverford: George Senneff 11. The Bibliophile: Henry A. Sims 12. "He was not a Connoisseur": Peter Widener and His House 13. The Last Quaker: Robert Venturi 14. Frank Furness at Thirty: The Armory of the First City Troop 15. Louis Kahn at Thirty: The Lenin Memorial in Leningrad 16. Frank Furness, Perpetual Motion, and "The Captain's Trousers" 17. Breakthrough at Bryn Mawr: Louis Kahn's Erdman Dormitory 18. Gehry at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 19. Trashing the President's House 20. The "New" Barnes 21. A Museum that Overcomes its Correctness 22. My Favorite Building: Pembroke, Bryn Mawr College
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