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Author : Ihna Thayer Frary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258825147
Author : I T (Ihna Thayer) B 1873 Frary
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015213898
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : I. T. Frary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031808135
Author : Jack Mclaughlin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429936798
A National Book Award nominee in 1988, Jack McLaughlin's biography tells the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a century, it was his consuming passion, his most serious amusement. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuitive understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts and uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. En route he tells us much about life in Virginia; about Monticello's craftsmen and how they worked their materials; about slavery, class, and family; and, above all, about the multiplicity of domestic concerns that preoccupied this complex man. It is an engaging and incisive look at the eighteenth-century mind: systematic, rational, and curious, but also playful, comfort-loving, and amusing. Ultimately, it provides readers with great insight into daily life in Colonial and Federal America.
Author : William Alexander Lambeth,Warren Henry Manning
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781429014014
Lambeth and Manning's 1913 work provides a unique perspective on Thomas Jefferson. Rather than concentrating on his political life, they instead investigate his intellectual pursuits as an architect and designer of landscapes.
Author : Mabel O. Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300246209
A compelling reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's architecture that scrutinizes the complex, and sometimes contradictory, meanings of his iconic work Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance--particularly Palladian--and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republic, Jefferson completed visionary building projects such as his two homes, Monticello and Poplar Forest; the Capitol building in Richmond; and the University of Virginia campus. Featuring a wealth of archival images, including models, paintings, drawings, and prints, this volume presents compelling essays that engage broad themes of history, ethics, philosophy, classicism, neoclassicism, and social sciences while investigating various aspects of Jefferson's works, design principles, and complex character. In addition to a thorough introduction to Jefferson's career as an architect, the book provides insight into his sources of inspiration and a nuanced take on the contradictions between his ideas about liberty and his embrace of slavery, most poignantly reflected in his plan for the academical village at the University of Virginia, which was carefully designed to keep enslaved workers both invisible and accessible. Thomas Jefferson, Architect offers fresh perspectives on Jefferson's architectural legacy, which has shaped the political and social landscape of the nation and influenced countless American architects since his time.
Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822033177684
Illustrated with splendid color photography by the same author-photographer team that created Rizzoli's "Wright for Wright, " this is the first volume to combine all the extant work of Jefferson. 120 full-color illustrations.
Author : K. Edward Lay
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Albemarle County (Va.)
ISBN : 9780813918853
"But what is less well known are the many important examples of other architectural idioms built in this Piedmont Virginia county, many by nationally renowned architects.".
Author : Frederick Doveton Nichols,Ralph E. Griswold
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 081390899X
Collaboration with the greatest botanists of his time, an instinctive humanitarianism, and a natural ingenuity in landscape design combined to make Thomas Jefferson a pioneer in American landscape architecture. Frederick D. Nichols and Ralph E. Griswold, in this close study of Jefferson's many notes, letters, and sketches, present a clear and detailed interpretation of his extraordinary accomplishments in the field. Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect investigates the many influences on--and of--the Jeffersonian legacy in architecture. Jefferson's personality, friendships, and convictions, complemented by his extensive reading and travels, clearly influenced his architectural work. His fresh approach to incorporating foreign elements into domestic designs, his revolutionary approach to relating the house to the surrounding land, and his profound influences on the architectural character of the District of Columbia are just a few of Jefferson's contributions to the American landscape. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maps, plans, and drawings, as well as pictures of the species of trees that Jefferson used for his designs, generously illustrate the engaging narrative in Thomas Jefferson, Landscape Architect.
Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608196609
Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. But Kimball, an industrious scholar with a keen eye, made a series of critical discoveries that changed not just the image of Jefferson, but also rewrote the story of American architecture, introducing its first real practitioner. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, William Thornton, Robert Mills-Kimball identified the key figures who together with Jefferson transformed the craft of building into the art of architecture, at the same time setting the aesthetic tone for a young country still struggling to define itself. Part detective story, part narrative history, Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson recreates the stories of these visionary men through the lens of the amazing Fiske Kimball, who, in resurrecting their legacy, helped found the twin disciplines of historic preservation and architectural history. Hugh Howard's books include the definitive Thomas Jefferson, Architect; his memoir House-Dreams; the essay collection The Preservationist's Progress; and an introduction to the architecture of Williamsburg, Colonial Houses. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and their two teenage daughters.
Author : Thomas Jefferson,Fiske Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:18408146
Author : Travis C. McDonald
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813949642
Poplar Forest is one of two personal residences that Thomas Jefferson designed for himself, the other being Monticello. Jefferson’s wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, inherited the land—originally a 6,861-acre parcel—at her father’s death in 1773, but Jefferson did not begin construction on the house until 1806, and at his death in 1826, he was still working on his little "getaway." Despite its audacious design—it was the first documented octagonal residence in America—and the fact that it is one of the very few extant Jeffersonian structures, Poplar Forest is not nearly so well-known today as its sibling seventy miles to the northeast. Undoubtedly, this is due in large part to its more remote location in Bedford County. Additionally, the house remained in private hands until 1984. Travis McDonald situates the site in its rightful position as a historically important Virginia house, and he documents its story as central to Jefferson’s life and approach to architecture, including details of the enslaved community at his western retreat. This new, informed account will appeal to architectural historians and visitors to the villa retreat, as well as to those interested in Jefferson’s work and legacy.
Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813918510
Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson shows how the public attitude toward Jefferson has always paralleled the political climate of the time; the complexities of the man, his thoughts, and his deeds being viewed only in fragments by later generations. He explains how the ideas of Jefferson have been distorted, defended, pilloried, or used by virtually every leading politician, historian, and intellectual. Through most of our history, political parties have engaged in an ideological tug-of-war to see who would wear "the mantle of Jefferson."
Author : Thomas Jefferson,Sidney Fiske Kimball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:869534756
Author : Bryan C. Green
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015064755393
In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long—and unjustifiably—forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master: Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson’s famed "academical village" at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed—extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions—bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. In Jefferson’s Shadow is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation’s first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.
