Bainbridge Bunting was an American

United States

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 architectural historian

Architectural historian

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, teacher

Teacher

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 and author

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He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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. In 1948, he was a faculty member of the University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...

 Art Department, until retiring in 1979. Bunting wrote numerous articles and three books on the architecture of New Mexico

New Mexico

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, and was noted for his expertise in adobe

Adobe

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 architecture, the Zuni Pueblo and the architecture of John Gaw Meem

John Gaw Meem

John Gaw Meem IV was an American architect based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is best known for his instrumental role in the development and popularization of the Pueblo Revival style...

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Bunting is credited by architectural historian Marcus Whiffen with having re-introduced the term "Châteauesque

Châteauesque

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" to describe the style previously and more generally known as Chateau Style or French Chateau Style..

Writings

• Houses of Boston's Back Bay
• Harvard: An Architectural History (Belknap Press)
• Early Architecture in New Mexico University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1976 ISBN 0826304249
• 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