“Review of *American Architecture Comes of Age: European Reaction to H. H. Richardson and Louis Sullivan*, by Leonard K. Eaton”

AboutBook review assessing Leonard K. Eaton's argument that H. H. Richardson and Louis Sullivan, not only Frank Lloyd Wright via the 1910 Wasmuth publication, exerted significant influence on European architecture through wide circulation of their work in European professional journals during the 1890s–1900s. Coolidge summarizes Eaton's account of Richardson's Romanesque influence on architects including Charles Harrison Townsend, Ferdinand Boberg, and Lars Sonck, and Sullivan's influence on Anton Rosen and Hendrik Berlage, and Eaton's explanation for why this influence reached England and Northern Europe but not the Romance countries (attributed to the dominance of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Art Nouveau). The reviewer questions whether the book adequately situates these episodes against larger, more consequential contemporaneous developments (Perret, Maillart, early Cubism).

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