Dr. Sarah Bradford Landau (born 1935) is a noted architectural historian who taught for many years in the Department of Art History at

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. Landau earned her B.F.A. at the

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(1957). She earned her M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1978) at

, where she was a student of Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Landau has been active in

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and served as a commissioner on the

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from 1987 to 1996. Landau has won numerous awards including the

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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, 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 University

Sarah Landau papers
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