Sarah Bradford Landau (1935 – 4 February 2023) was an architectural historian who taught for many years in the Department of Art History at New York University.

Education

Landau earned her B.F.A. at the University of North Carolina (1957). She earned her Ph.D. (1978) from New York University Institute of Fine Arts, where she was a student of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the noted architectural historian. Her dissertation chronicled the work of the architects Henry Tuckerman Potter and William Appleton Potter.

Career

Landau taught in the Department of Art History at New York University from 1976-2007. For nine years (1987-1996) she served as a member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Selected publications

Awards

Landau had won numerous awards including the American Institute of Architects 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).