Amherst College - An Architectural Tour

"The Amherst College Campus Guides features college history, and curated tours to highlight major buildings, special places, and landmark events"--

About the author

Biddy Martin is the president of Amherst College

Blair Kamin, a 1979 graduate of Amherst, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune. His previous books include Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago.

Ralph Lieberman is an architectural historian and photographer. He was the photographer for Williams College: The Campus Guide and previously collaborated with Kamin on The Gates of Harvard Yard.

Summary

Amherst College: The Campus Guide is an architectural tour of one of North America's most prestigious liberal arts colleges. Founded in Western Massachusetts some two hundred years ago, the one thousand-acre campus is a living museum of architectural history, bearing the imprint of distinguished firms in architecture and landscape architecture: Frederick Law Olmsted; McKim, Mead & White; Benjamin Thompson; Edward Larrabee Barnes; Shepley Bulfinch; and Michael Van Valkenburgh. Organized as a series of six walks, the guide interweaves the history of the college with the story of the campus's development. Newly commissioned photographs and a hand drawn pocket map enhance this engaging journey through Amherst's architecture, landscape, interior design, and sculpture.

Product details

• Authors: Blair Kamin
• Assisted by: Ralph Lieberman (Photographer), Ralph Lieberman (Photographs), Martin Biddy (Foreword), Biddy Martin (Foreword)
• Publisher: Abrams & Chronicle
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2020
• EAN: 9781616898229
• ISBN: 978-1-61689-822-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 740 g
• Series: Campus Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Travel > Travel guides; STUDY AIDS / College Guides