Full Name: Fletcher, Banister, Sir
Other Names:
- Sir Banister Flight Fletcher
Gender: male
Date Born: 1866
Date Died: 1953
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre) and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Architectural historian, wrote famous guide to architectural styles and periods. His father, also Banister Fletcher, was an architectural historian as well.
Selected Bibliography
Andrea Palladio: his Life and Works. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902; The English Home. London: Methuen & Co. 1911; Influence of material on architecture. London, Batsford, 1897; and Fletcher, Banister (1833-1899) A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method. London: Athlone Press, University of London, 1896- [issued serially], first single-volume edition, London: B.T. Batsford and New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1897.