Long Island Modernism 1930-1980

Supported by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, Caroline Zaleski has uncovered a trove of buildings designed by a roster of internationally renowned architects including Wallace Harrison, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Edward Durell Stone, Richard Neutra, William Lescaze, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Richard Meier, and many more. Zaleski's research about the work of key figures in twentieth-century architecture and relatively unknown aspects of their production and their associations with clients, artists, and politicians is complemented by many archival photographs supplemented by new photography and plans. She documents the development of suburbia and the rise of visionary modern structures-houses, churches, schools, office complexes-commissioned by the island's civic and business leaders, an essential reference for architecture buffs, historians, and everyone who lives on or visits Long Island today.