Wayne Andrews

Wayne Andrews (September 5, 1913 August 17, 1987) was an American historian and architectural photographer. He was the author of numerous books, including Battle for Chicago, and Siegfried`s Curse: The German Journey from Nietzsche to Hesse. Architectural historian Carl Condit once commented, Mr. Andrews’ photographic talents are always equal to his task. . . Andrews’ art is superb.” His main portfolio consisting of 4,183 architectural photographs, mostly from America and Europe, and a small number from Mexico is held by the University of California, Santa Barbara in their Special Research Collections. The Alexander Architectural Archives of the University of Texas at Austin also holds photographs by Andrews as does the Conway Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London and the Department of Image Collections at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Private life When he retired Andrews returned to Chicago where he lived for the remainder of his life with his wife Elizabeth.

Selected publications

Architecture in New York: A Photographic History, Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1995, originally published by Atheneum in 1969, The Surrealist Parade, New York, N.Y. : New Directions, 1990, Architecture in Michigan, Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1982, Pride of the South: A Social History of Southern Architecture, New York : Atheneum, 1979, Architecture, Ambition and Americans: A Social History of American Architecture, New York : Free Press; London : Collier Macmillan, 1978, Architecture in America: A Photographic History from the Colonial Period to the Present, New York : Atheneum, 1977, American Gothic: Its origins, Its trials, Its triumphs, New York : Random House, 1975, Architecture in New England: A Photographic History, Brattleboro, Vt. : S. Greene Press, 1973, Germaine: A Portrait of Madame de Stael, Gollancz, 1964