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Bainbridge Bunting
Born November 23, 1913 Died February 13, 1981 (1981-02-14 ) (aged 67) Education Occupation(s) Architectural historian, teacher, and author
Bainbridge Bunting (November 23, 1913 – February 13, 1981) was an American
architectural historian ,
teacher , and
author .
[2]
Bunting was born November 23, 1913, in
Kansas City, Missouri . He graduated from the
University of Illinois and later received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University .
[3] Beginning in 1948, he was a faculty member of the
University of New Mexico Art Department until his retirement in 1979. Bunting wrote numerous articles and three books on the architecture of
New Mexico , and was noted for his expertise in
adobe architecture, the
Zuni Pueblo and the architecture of
John Gaw Meem .
[4]
Bunting is credited by architectural historian
Marcus Whiffen with having re-introduced the term "
Châteauesque " to describe the architectural style previously and more generally known as "Chateau Style" or "French Chateau Style."
[5]
Bunting died February 13, 1981, in
Beverly, Massachusetts .
[3]
Writings
Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840–1917
Harvard: An Architectural History (Belknap Press)
Early Architecture in New Mexico University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1976
ISBN
0-8263-0424-9
Taos adobes : Spanish colonial and territorial architecture of the Taos
Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge
John Gaw Meem: Southwestern Architect , School of American Research Book, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1983
Of Earth and Timbers Made: New Mexico Architecture
References
^ UNM Bunting Library staff photographer (2014-04-21),
English: Digital capture of photographic plaque from former Bunting Visual Resources Library in the College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico , retrieved 2019-12-06
^
"Bainbridge Bunting Papers" . New Mexico Archives Online . 2000. Retrieved 2023-09-27 .
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b
"Bainbridge Bunting 1913–1981: "Remarkable Teacher" " . New Mexico Architecture . 23 (2). New Mexico Society of Architects: 8–9. March–April 1981.
^
Inventory of the Bainbridge Bunting Collection of Measured Drawings, 1934-1979
^ Whiffen, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780: A guide to the styles , The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969 p.142
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