Michael J. Lewis is Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art at Williams College. His books include Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind (W.W. Norton & Company) and American Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson).
A review of The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Anniversary Edition), by Henry Hope Reed and Francis Morrone
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