David P. Handlin Explained

David P. Handlin is an American architect and architectural historian.

Life and career

Handlin was born in Boston, the son of the historians Oscar Handlin and Mary Flug Handlin.^[1] He studied at Harvard University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design and earned a doctorate from Cambridge University.^[2]

He was a lecturer in architecture at Cambridge from 1973 to 1978 and an associate professor in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of design from 1973 to 1978. He later founded the architecture firm of Handlin, Garrahan, Zachos and Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which he is president.

Handlin has written two survey books, The American Home, Architecture and Society, 1815–1915 and American Architecture. He has been characterized as a conservative architectural historian.^[3]

Publications

• The American Home, Architecture and Society, 1815–1915. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. .^{[4] [5] [6]}
• American Architecture. World of Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. . Rev. ed. 2004. .

External links

• Handlin, Garrahan and Associates

Notes and References

1. News: Joseph H. . Yeager . Mary Flug Handlin Dies at 62, Co-Authored Books on History . . 1976-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210530130025/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1976/5/25/mary-flug-handlin-dies-at-62/ . 2021-05-30 . live.
2. Web site: David P. Handlin . W. W. Norton & Co. . 2016-09-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160403144229/http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Author.aspx?id=4294985995 . 2016-04-03 . dead.
3. News: Dell . Upton . Dell Upton . An American Architecture? . John . Davis . Jennifer A. . Greenhill . Jason D. . LaFountain . A Companion to American Art . Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history . 8. Malden, Massachusetts . Wiley-Blackwell . 2015 . 9781118542491 . 217.
4. Daniel . Meyer . Review: The American Home: Architecture and Society, 1815–1915 by David P. Handlin . Journal of Architectural Education . 33 . 3 . Spring 1980 . 30 . 1424631 . 10.2307/1424631 .
5. David . Schuyler . Review: The American Home: Architecture and Society, 1815–1915 by David P. Handlin . Winterthur Portfolio . 16 . 4 . Winter 1981 . 350–51 . 10.1086/496054 . 1180880 .
6. Martin . Filler . Reviews: The Palace or the Poorhouse: The American House as a Cultural Symbol by Jan Cohn; The American House by Mary Mix Foley, Madelaine Thatcher; The American Home: Architecture and Society, 1815–1915 by David P. Handlin; Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873–1913 by Gwendolyn Wright . Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians . 40 . 3 . October 1981 . 254 . 989713 . 10.2307/989713.