Description: The first close look at an innovative architect and inventor who held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times.
Brief description: Peter Pennoyer is the principal partner of the eponymous architecture firm that has a national practice in classical and traditional architecture. The Pennoyer firm has designed houses and institutional projects from New York to California. The firm's work is recognized for combining an inventive spirit with an erudite grasp of architectural history and has been widely published and exhibited. Pennoyer serves on the boards of the Institute for Classical Architecture and Classical America, the Morgan Library, and the Whiting Foundation. He is the coauthor of The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich and The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore.
Review Quotes: Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker, the authors of erudite, luxuriously illustrated monographs about lesser-known architects, have now published The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury....In this book, both the romance and the science of the man come through.--Christopher Gray "The New York Times"