Overview
"Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Douglass Shand-Tucci's portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects" "Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillip Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram's career into four lifelong "quests": medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century." Illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900.Synopsis
"Following in the footsteps of Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Douglass Shand-Tucci's portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects" "Shand-Tucci traces the influence on Cram of such disparate figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Phillip Brooks, Henry Adams, and Ayn Rand. He divides Cram's career into four lifelong "quests": medieval, modernist, American, and ecumenical. Some quests may have failed, but in each he left a considerable legacy, ultimately transforming the visual image of American Christianity in the twentieth century." Illustrated with over 130 photographs and drawings and eight pages of color plates, Ralph Adams Cram can be read on its own or in conjunction with Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900.
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Shand-Tucci's impressive and rewarding study, of which to be accurate, architecture is really only one part, brings to light...many aspects of the architect's life, his professional milieu, and, more generally, the mixed motivations of American culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Editorials
"Completes the author's long study of the seminal American neo-Gothic architect and stands as the most complete source on his work. It provides a wealth of detail and background information that will help scholars for generations to understand Cram's work and importance in twentieth-century American architecture."--(Journal of Society of Architectural Historians)