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This was elaborated and extended ~ especially with respect to material on Eidlitz, bridges, the Beaux Arts, and the final conclusion the by Mr Jordy The selection, ordering, and editing of Schuylcr's writing was done by Mr Jordy and Mr Jordy The indexing was clone by Mr Coe Contents Vols " I and II Montgomery Schuyler" by William H Jordy and Ralph Coe AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE I and Other Writings THE POINT... by historians of both American culture and modern architecture, American Architecture has been out of print since the sale of its initial edition The essays included in American Architecture, however, represent only a lesser fraction of Schuyler' s extensive architectural criticism of American developments from the seventies to the year of his death in 1914 Many of his significant writings do not appear... thoroughly publicized And throughout the battle, Schuyler "never hauled down the 53 flag 1 Frank Lloyd Wright, "In the Cause of Architecture II," On Architecture^ ed Frederick Gutheim (New York, 1941), p 47 2 Lewis Mumford, Roots of Contemporary American Architecture (New York, 1952), p 15 AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE 2 Following Mumford's lead, architectural and cultural historians have unearthed Schuyler' s architectural... from books and other men, and in the other all that he had learned from [the] conversation and instruction of his right honorable friend he should be at a which to assign the preference.' " Still later, again in his 1908 memorial to Eidlitz, Schuyler concluded that "his was the clearest and most vigorous mind that in his day and in this country was applied to the practice of architecture. " 15 Schuyler' s... to survey Schuyler' s criticism as a whole Hence we have arranged an extensive sampling of Schuyler' s criticism so that it parallels the historical development of American architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries The essays collected in American Architecture, to- gether with the vignetted line drawings of the original publication, have been distributed among the other writings. .. Adler & Sullivan and Burnham & Root and especially from a volume, consisting of reprints of articles, which appeared in 1892 under the nondescript title American Architecture portions of Schuyler' s trenchant remarks on the Brooklyn Bridge, the Chicago School, the Columbian Exposition, on Sullivan, and on Wright have gradually become familiar to students of American Thus Studies culture Schuyler has appeared... buildings for the Old Campus at Yale are Farnam (1869), Durfee (1871), Battell Chapel (1876), and Laurence (1885-1886) All are illustrated in "Russell Sturgis's Architecture" (igog-F), the basic source on Sturgis' architecture, where, however, Schuyler reverses the identifications and dates of Farnam and AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE 6 Wight had won an important competition for the design of the National Academy...Preface In 1891 Montgomery Schuyler published a volume of his essays under the modest title American Architecture Studies Culled from magazine articles which had appeared during the preceding decade, the seven essays in this volume have long been recognized as among the most perceptive, urbane, and progressive critical writings on certain aspects of nineteenth-century American architecture Although... introduction in part, and Robert Livingston Schuyler read it all Both made helpful suggestions John Jacobus gave assistance on Viollet-le-Duc and the Neo-Grec movement, as did however, on Andrews on some aspects of Allen Brooks on Leopold Eidlitz's architecture (not, Eidlitz's architectural theory), New York and Wayne Trump assisted on problems Alan Burnham, the editor of the Richard City architecture James... (Boston, 2nd ed., 1893); Record and Guide> A History of Real Estate^ Building and Architecture in New York during Last Quarter of a Century (New York, The United States (Leipzig, 1909), which is the 1898); Karl Baedecker, helpful as well for the architecture of other cities; finally, Isaac N Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island (New York, 6 vols., 1915-1928) Chicago architecture is covered in . final conclusion by Mr. Jordy. The selection, ordering, and editing of Schuylcr's writing was done by Mr. Jordy. The indexing was clone by Mr. Coe and Mr. Jordy. Contents Vols. I and II " Montgomery Schuyler& quot; by William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE and Other Writings I THE POINT OF VIEW The Point of View 95 Modern. volume have long been recognized as among the most perceptive, urbane, and progressive critical writings on certain aspects of nineteenth-century American architecture. 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