Charles Platt: The Artist as Architect; With a Memoir by Geoffrey Platt
Cambridge, MA: AHF/The MIT Press, 1986. Second Printing. Cloth over Boards w/Dust Jacket. Small quarto, pp. 272, indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Jointly published by The Architectural History Foundation and the MIT Press. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Item #22933
Now recognized in America as one of the best residential architects, Platt started out as an artist, then landscape designer. He designed the beautiful Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the campus plan and library at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In addition, competing against Frank Lloyd Wright and McKim, Mead & White; and John Russell Pope, he was selected to redesign the University of Illinois campus.
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