Dr. Sarah Bradford Landau (born 1935) is a noted
architectural historian who taught for many years in the Department of Art History at
New York University.
Landau earned her B.F.A. at the
University of North Carolina (1957). She earned her M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1978) at
New York University, where she was a student of
Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Landau has been active in
historic preservation and served as a commissioner on the
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission from 1987 to 1996.
Landau has won numerous awards including the
American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award (1997), the Victorian Society in America Book Award (1997), the Lucy G. Moses Award for Preservation Leadership,
New York Landmarks Conservancy (1997) and designation as a Centennial Historian of the City of New York (1999).
Selected writings
* Landau, Sarah Bradford, ''
George B. Post
George Browne Post (December 15, 1837 – November 28, 1913) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition. He was recognized as a master of modern American architecture as well as being instrumental in the birth of the skyscra ...
, Architect: Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist'', Monacelli Press, New York 1998;
* Landau, Sarah Bradford, and Condit, Carl W., ''Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913'', Yale University Press, New Haven 1996;
* Landau, Sarah Bradford, and Cigliano, Jan (editors), ''The Grand American Avenue, 1850 to 1920'', Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco; American Architectural Foundation, Washington DC 1994.
* Landau, Sarah Bradford, ''P.B. Wight: Architect, Contractor, and Critic 1838-1925'', Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1981.
* Landau, Sarah Bradford, ''Edward T. and William A. Potter, American Victorian Architects'', Garland Publishing, New York and London 1979.
External links
New York UniversitySarah Landau papers
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Living people
1935 births
American architecture writers
American architectural historians
New York University alumni
New York University faculty
American women historians
21st-century American women