With Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker. This illustrated lecture showcases the rich and varied repertoire of Grosvenor Atterbury (1869–1956), the prolific innovative architect and inventor, whose career spanned six decades and whose work affected the course of American architecture, planning, and construction. He held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times and produced more than one hundred major projects, including an array of grand mansions, picturesque estates, informal summer cottages, and farm groups. However, it was his role as town planner and civic leader and his work to create model tenements, hospitals, workers’ housing, and town plans for which he is most celebrated. His Forest Hills Gardens, designed in association with the Olmsted Brothers, is lauded as one of the most highly significant community planning projects of its time.
New York City, NY; NYC