Bruce Price | |
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| Born | December 12, 1845 Cumberland, Maryland, United States |
| Died | May 29, 1903 (aged 57) Paris, France |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse | Josephine Lee |
| Children | 2, including Emily Post |
Bruce Price (December 12, 1845 – May 29, 1903) was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and Robert Venturi.[1]
He also designed Richardsonian Romanesque institutional buildings, Beaux-Arts mansions, and Manhattan skyscrapers. In Canada, he designed Châteauesque railroad stations and grand hotels for the Canadian Pacific Railway, including Windsor Station in Montreal[2] and Château Frontenac in Quebec City.
- ^ "Venturi, like [Louis] Kahn, starts from the beginning. Again that beginning recalls Wright's, and in Venturi's case derives (I am pleased to say) from the Shingle Style. Wright started in 1889 with a simple gabled house, as a child might draw a house but with a kind of vestigial Palladian motif in the gable. I made a great deal in The Shingle Style of Wright's dependence upon two houses by Bruce Price in this design. So Venturi: he presents an ur-house with a Palladian gesture literally drawn on it." Vincent Scully, Modern Architecture and Other Essays (Princeton University Press, 2003), p. 150.
- ^ "Bruce Price - Library Archival Catalogue". archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca. Retrieved January 30, 2018.