[MassHistPres] New Book UMass History and Buildings

[Joseph Larson]

New Book on UMass Architecture and Buildings

 

The Princeton Architectural Press has just released a book "University of
Massachusetts Amherst" in their Campus Guide series. Authored by two
distinguished UMass professors, Marla R. Miller, Professor of History and
Director of the Public History program and Max Page Professor of
Architecture and History and Director of Historic Preservation Initiatives,
the 192 pages include color photos and maps of buildings and sections of the
1,500 acre campus. The authors reveal the stories behind more than 70
buildings, residence halls, gardens, sculptures, and athletic facilities.

 

This is the best treatment of a unique campus that includes an array of
American architecture from 1728 to the modern buildings of Marcel Breuer,
Edward Durrell Stone, Hugh Stubbins, William Rawn, and Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill. Einhorn Yaffee Prescott in 2009 reported that "the architects,
landscape architects, and planners of local, regional and/or national
prominence" involved "produced a distinctive public university campus
landscape, primarily of the mid-19th ro mid-20th century, which is unique in
Massachusetts." Miller and Page have produced a volume that documents that
assessment.

 

The Miller/Page volume joins the Princeton Architectural Press
(www.papress.com <http://www.ppapress.com> ) list of distinguished
universities for which similar guides have been published - including
Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, Toronto, Texas,
Washington, Virginia, West Point, and Yale.

 

Joseph S. Larson

Preserve UMass

 

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