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OverviewFounded in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest university in the country. It has been called “a national treasure” and is considered by many to be the loveliest campus in America. The very word “campus” debuted there in the eighteenth century, and over time, Princeton’s has ceaselessly evolved, passing through a series of distinct identities. Architectural critics have lavishly praised it, and careful stewardship by administrators and architects has preserved its appeal from generation to generation. Thousands of alumni return every year to march in the gaudy P-rade, which twists among the buildings in a veritable tour of campus history, from Nassau Hall (1756) to the twenty-first century’s Bloomberg Hall. And yet, if one wants to learn more—to go deeper than the beautiful surface and explore the history of these buildings or the complex development of the campus—it can be surprisingly hard to do so. Although Princeton resembles an outdoor museum, explanatory markers are few, written sources are out of print and scattered, and sophomore tour guides cheerfully mix fact and myth. No plaques help the curious visitor who wishes to follow in the footsteps of James Madison, Aaron Burr, James McCosh, Albert Einstein, John Foster Dulles, Bill Bradley, or Michelle Obama, and the stories of the buildings themselves are known to few. Princeton: America’s Campus offers a way in. Neither a straightforward architectural history nor a simple guidebook, it weaves social history and the built fabric into a biography of a great American place. To create this work, Barksdale Maynard conducted an ambitious series of interviews with major architects active at Princeton over the past forty years, including Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Charles Gwathmey, Michael Graves, Tod Williams, Hugh Hardy, Perry Morgan, Rodolfo Machado, Henry Cobb, Frances Halsband, Demetri Porphyrios, Harold Fredenburgh, Alan Chimacoff, Robert A. M. Stern, and Rafael Viñoly. He also interviewed educational leaders, including deans at Princeton, MIT, Cooper Union, and Yale, in addition to university presidents Goheen and Bowen of Princeton, Gutmann of Penn, and Rudenstine of Harvard. The book is thus not just a guide and a history; it is also an archive of the living recollections of the people who built Princeton’s majestic campus. Full Product DetailsAuthor: W. Barksdale MaynardPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.406kg ISBN: 9780271050850ISBN 10: 0271050853 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 26 April 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Introduction Part 1: The Rural Campus, 1746–1895 1 Going Back to Nassau Hall 2 Phoenix 3 Era of McCosh 4 The Golden Age of College Life 5 Oxford in New Jersey Part 2: Triumph of Collegiate Gothic, 1896–1932 6 The Poetry of Cope and Stewardson 7 Wilson and Cram 8 Spires and Gargoyles 9 Gothic as a Living Style 10 A Paradise for WASPs 11 Cram’s Magnificent Chapel Part 3: Arguing About Modernism, 1933–1979 12 God Deliver Us from Chromium and Concrete 13 Goodbye Gothic 14 Goheen Goes Modern 15 Co-Ed Part 4: The Rise and Fall of Postmodernism, 1980–2010 16 Complexity and Contradiction with Venturi 17 Neomodernism in the Age of Affluence 18 A Surprising Reversion to Gothic 19 The Gehry That Landed on Ivy Lane Acknowledgments Appendix: Buildings of Princeton University, 1754–2010 Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits IndexReviewsAnyone interested in universities, architecture, and social history will want to read this fascinating book. --Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard University <p> Anyone interested in universities, architecture, and social history will want to read this fascinating book. <p>--Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard University Author InformationW. Barksdale Maynard is the author of five books on American history, architecture, and landscape. Trained as an architectural historian, he has taught at Johns Hopkins and Princeton. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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