Bainbridge Bunting Explained

Bainbridge Bunting
Birth Date:	November 23, 1913
Birth Place:	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Death Place:	Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education:	University of Illinois Harvard University
Occupation:	Architectural historian, teacher, and author

Bainbridge Bunting (November 23, 1913 – February 13, 1981) was an American architectural historian, teacher, and author.^[1]

Bunting was born November 23, 1913, in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Illinois and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.^[2] Beginning in 1948, he was a faculty member of the University of New Mexico Art Department until his retirement in 1979. Bunting wrote numerous articles and three books on the architecture of New Mexico, and was noted for his expertise in adobe architecture, the Zuni Pueblo and the architecture of John Gaw Meem.^[3]

Bunting is credited by architectural historian Marcus Whiffen with having re-introduced the term "Châteauesque" to describe the architectural style previously and more generally known as "Chateau Style" or "French Chateau Style."^[4]

Bunting died February 13, 1981, in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Writings

• Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840–1917
• Harvard: An Architectural History (Belknap Press)
• Early Architecture in New Mexico University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1976
• Taos adobes : Spanish colonial and territorial architecture of the Taos
• Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge
• John Gaw Meem: Southwestern Architect, School of American Research Book, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1983
• Of Earth and Timbers Made: New Mexico Architecture

External links

• Bainbridge Bunting Papers, University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research
• Bainbridge Bunting Collection of Measured Drawings, University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research
• Bainbridge Bunting Photograph Collection, University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2000 . Bainbridge Bunting Papers . 2023-09-27 . New Mexico Archives Online.
2. March–April 1981 . Bainbridge Bunting 1913–1981: "Remarkable Teacher" . New Mexico Architecture . New Mexico Society of Architects . 23 . 2 . 8–9.
3. http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmu1swabuntingdrawings.xml Inventory of the Bainbridge Bunting Collection of Measured Drawings, 1934-1979
4. Whiffen, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780: A guide to the styles, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969 p.142