Architecture Radio is a wonderful online lecture series and covers an enormous range of topics – and I am ashamed to write that I did not know about this terrific resource until today. A relatively recent lecture (mp3; recorded at the Boston Public Library on 05.05, published 09.05) by Maureen Meister, author of Architecture and the Arts & Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard’s H. Langford Warren (the first full-length study of this very important turn-of-the-century architect, educator and movement leader) and editor of H. H. Richardson: The Architect, His Peers and Their Era is devoted to the Arts & Crafts Movement in Boston.
Old House Interiors writes of her book on H. Langford Warren that “(she) makes the point that some architects are influential
because they have a lot of clients, while others exert their influence
less directly – but more widely – through students… Warren’s own blend
of Gothic, Georgian, and Colonial forms was perceived as the proper New
England style long after his death in 1917. In serving the Society of
Arts and Crafts for longer than anyone else, Warren further imprinted
area taste.”
Paraphrased the jacket of her most recent book: ‘Maureen Meister has taught art history courses at the Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, Northeastern University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston since 1982. In recent years she has lectured on American architecture at Tufts University.’ And she has a very nice voice, too.