Edited by Dreck Spurlock Wilson

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects. Overcoming racial segregation at the beginning of the twentieth century, Abele received his architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902.

Wilson traces Abele’s progress as he went on to become the most formally educated architect in America at that time. Abele later contributed to the architectural history of America by designing over 200 buildings throughout his career including the Widener Memorial Library (1913) at Harvard University and the Free Library of Philadelphia (1917).

Architectural history is a valuable resource for those studying architecture. As such this book is beneficial for academics and students of architecture and architectural historians with a particular interest in minority discussions.

Product Details:

ISBN 9780367662219

240 Pages

Published September 30, 2020 by Routledge

About Dreck Spurlock Wilson:

Dreck Spurlock Wilson, ASLA, NOMA is a graduate of Iowa State University and the University of Chicago. He was formerly an Associate Professor of Architectural History at Howard University and Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University.

Dreck is a licensed landscape architect and principal of Landscape Consortium, Ltd. in Washington, D.C. with design credit for the restoration of FLO’s Jackson Park in Chicago, public R.O.W. Baltimore Inner Harbor, Carter G. Woodson Plaza, Washington, D.C., Wafa Wa Amal Hospital, Cairo, Egypt and King Faisal Military Cantonment, Khamyis Mushayat, Saudi Arabia.

Dreck is the editor and contributing author of the Biographical Dictionary of African American Architects, 1865–1945, written by 100 experts ranging from architectural historians to archivists. This book contains 160 biographical, A-Z entries on African-American architects, landscape architects and civil engineers from Emancipation to the end of World War II.