Henry Hobson Richardson. Drawings form the collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University

This trove of 4,000 drawings at Houghton Library, preserved since Richardson's death but largely unpublished, encompasses masterpieces such as Trinity Church, Boston, the Allegheny County Courthouse, the Ames Gate Lodge, the Glessner House, and the Marshall Field Wholesale Store. Through a urated selection of 450 drawings, this book is a revelatory exploration of Richardson's work, which set American architecture on a new course and exerted a global influence on the birth of modernism.

The first in-depth publication of drawings that reveal the creative genius of H. H. Richardson, the greatest American architect of the nineteenth century.