Gates of Harvard Yard / edited with an Introduction by Blair Kamin ; Essays by Ariana Austin, Gokcan Demirkazik, Jeneen Interlandi, Blair Kamin, Becca Mazur, Kathy Ran, Melissa Simonetti, Licia Sky, Lily Sugrue, Ola Topczewska, and Rachel Wehr ; foreword by Ann Marie Lipinski ; Photographs by Ralph Lieberman ; Sketches by Roger Erickson ; map by Christopher Beck.

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2016.

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm

Offering the complete, never-before-told story of the twenty-five gates that form portals to Harvard Yard, this beautiful gift book recounts the aesthetic vision for America's preeminent university, developed by renowned architecture firm McKim, Mead & White. The book discusses the architectural intentions of the gates, as well as the human drama behind their fruition?tales of wealth, power, and institutional and personal ambition. Illustrated with previously unpublished sketches by Roger Erickson, architect and landscape architect; stunning color photographs of each gate by Ralph Lieberman; and a beautiful hand-drawn three-dimensional aerial map of Harvard Yard that denotes the location of each gate by RISD graduate student Christopher Beck.

9781616894641 (paperback)
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Harvard University Buildings.
Harvard University.
Gates Massachusetts Cambridge.
Portes de ville Massachusetts Cambridge.
ARCHITECTURE Buildings Public, Commercial & Industrial.
STUDY AIDS College Guides.
REFERENCE General.
Gates Massachusetts.
Buildings.
Gates.
Harvard Yard (Cambridge, Mass.)
Cambridge (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Massachusetts Cambridge.
Massachusetts Cambridge Harvard Yard.

Kamin, Blair, editor.

Location: Library main y 294434
Call No.: BIB 239983
Status: Available