Clay Lancaster's Kentucky: Architectural Photographs of a Preservation Pioneer

"Clay Lancaster was infected by a love of architecture at an early age, a gentle madness from which he never cared to recover."-From the Foreword, by Roger W. Moss It is easy to take for granted the visual environment that we inhabit. Familiarity with routes of travel and places of work or leisure leads to indifference, and we fail to notice incremental changes. When a dilapidated building is eliminated by new development, it is forgotten as soon as its replacement becomes a part of our daily la

Author: James D. Birchfield
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.09lbs
Size: 11.06h x 8.81w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780813124216

About the Author

James D. Birchfield, curator of rare books at the University of Kentucky, is former president of the Warwick Foundation, which promotes the Clay Lancaster legacy through education, preservation, and facilitation of cross-cultural understanding.

Clay Lancaster, an architectural historian and native Kentuckian, was known for his work on nineteenth and twentieth-century American architecture. After earning bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Kentucky, he did post-graduate work at Columbia University, New York University, and the Asia Institute, where he established himself as an outspoken advocate of historical preservation. Also a writer and teacher, Lancaster published several books on architecture and art in addition to lecturing across the country. Lancaster returned to Kentucky in 1978 to continue his work and remained there until his death in 2000.

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