Hosted by the New England Chapter | 1.5 LUs
Join the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, New England for a lecture on Peter Harrison. Harrison was born in Yorkshire, UK, but for many years a resident of New England, is arguably the greatest architect who ever worked in America. A prodigy like Handel or Mozart, his first design at age 17 was for Wentworth-Woodhouse, still the largest private house in Europe. As a result of his having saved the British Empire from being conquered by the French in the 1740s, he was rewarded by being commissioned to design important buildings on every known continent. His papers were mostly destroyed after his death, so in spite of his having designed over 560 buildings he remains very little known on either side of the Atlantic.
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