I.M. Pei's JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes

Edward Eigen is senior lecturer in the history of landscape and architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of On Accident: Episodes in Architecture and Landscape (MIT Press, 2018). His recent publications investigate the epitaphs in Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, the documentary history of the Benjamin Franklin “Ghost House,” and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s patent for a pencil sharpener.