Bainbridge Bunting

Bainbridge Bunting (November 23, 1913 – February 13, 1981) was an American architectural historian, teacher, and author.^[2]

Bainbridge Bunting
Bunting c. 1970[1]
Born	November 23, 1913 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Died	February 13, 1981 (1981-02-14) (aged 67) Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	University of Illinois Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Architectural historian, teacher, and author

Bunting was born November 23, 1913, in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Illinois and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.^[3] Beginning in 1948, he was a faculty member of the University of New Mexico Art Department until his retirement in 1979. Bunting wrote numerous articles and three books on the architecture of New Mexico, and was noted for his expertise in adobe architecture, the Zuni Pueblo and the architecture of John Gaw Meem.^[4]

Bunting is credited by architectural historian Marcus Whiffen with having re-introduced the term "Châteauesque" to describe the architectural style previously and more generally known as "Chateau Style" or "French Chateau Style."^[5]

Bunting died February 13, 1981, in Beverly, Massachusetts.^[3]

Writings

• Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840–1917
• Harvard: An Architectural History (Belknap Press)
• Early Architecture in New Mexico University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1976 ISBN 0-8263-0424-9
• Taos adobes : Spanish colonial and territorial architecture of the Taos
• Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge
• John Gaw Meem: Southwestern Architect, School of American Research Book, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1983
• Of Earth and Timbers Made: New Mexico Architecture

References

1. UNM Bunting Library staff photographer (2014-04-21), English: Digital capture of photographic plaque from former Bunting Visual Resources Library in the College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, retrieved 2019-12-06
2. "Bainbridge Bunting Papers". New Mexico Archives Online. 2000. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
3. "Bainbridge Bunting 1913–1981: "Remarkable Teacher"". New Mexico Architecture. 23 (2). New Mexico Society of Architects: 8–9. March–April 1981.
4. Inventory of the Bainbridge Bunting Collection of Measured Drawings, 1934-1979
5. Whiffen, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780: A guide to the styles, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969 p.142

External links

• Bainbridge Bunting Papers, University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research
• Bainbridge Bunting Collection of Measured Drawings, University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research
• Bainbridge Bunting Photograph Collection, University of New Mexico, Center for Southwest Research