Oberlin Architecture, College and Town – A Guide to its Social History Blodgett

Oberlin Architecture, College and Town – A Guide to its Social History Blodgett

Oberlin Architecture, College and TownA Guide to Its Social History\nAuthor(s): Geoffrey Blodgett\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Kent State University Press, United States\nImprint: Kent State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780873383097, 978-0873383097\nSynopsis\nThis illustrated guide to the architecture of Oberlin, Ohio, mixes the remarkable social history of college and town with architectural commentary about one hundred thirty-two buildings built between 1837 and 1977. The result is a unique record of the ways in which the people of one Midwestern college town organized and housed their lives over the past one hundred fifty years, from the layout of the village square in 1833 to distinguished samples from the work of such twentieth-century architects as Cass Gilbert, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Harrison, Minoru Yamasaki, Hugh Stubbins and Robert Venturi. \n\nOwing to the plain and austere atmosphere of early Oberlin, much of the village architecture can be appreciated only through .

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