The Architecture Of Jefferson Country

Author : K. Edward Lay
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813918855
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Jefferson Country written by K. Edward Lay and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 078933979X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson: Architect written by Hugh Howard and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to include all of the existing work by Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the father of American architecture. Along with his numerous political achievements, Thomas Jefferson was also the first great architect of the United States. The Jeffersonian Classical style has been so influential that along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, Jefferson is one of the three most recognized architects in American History.

Author : Leslie Greene Bowman
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847865223
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson at Monticello written by Leslie Greene Bowman and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning volume explores Monticello, both house and plantation, with texts that present a current assessment of Jefferson’s cultural contributions to his noteworthy home and the fledgling country. Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president of the United States, designed his Virginia residence with innovations that were progressive, even unprecedented, in the new world. Six acclaimed arts and cultural luminaries pay homage to Jefferson, citing his work at Monticello as testament to his genius in art, culture, and science, from his adaptation of Palladian architecture, his sweeping vision for landscape design, his experimental gardens, and his passion for French wine and cuisine to his eclectic mix of European and American art and artifacts and the creation of the country’s seminal library. Each writer considers the important role, and the painful reality, of Jefferson’s enslaved workforce, which made his lifestyle and plantation possible. This book, illustrated with superb photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna, is a necessary addition to the libraries of those who love historical architecture and landscape design, art and cultural history, and the lives of prominent Americans.

Author : William Alexander Lambeth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes written by William Alexander Lambeth and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering work on TJ as an architect; occasionally useful but needs to be used with more recent scholarship. -- Frank Shuffelton.

Author : Ihna Thayer Frary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson, Architect and Builder written by Ihna Thayer Frary and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maureen Hubbard Barros
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653220
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Houses of Jefferson County written by Maureen Hubbard Barros and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson County, New York, has one of the richest concentrations of stone houses in America. As many as 500 stone houses, churches, and commercial buildings were built there before 1860. Some of the buildings are beautiful mansions built by early entrepreneurs; others are small vernacular farmhouses. Some are clustered together; others dot the countryside near stone outcroppings. Embedded in the fabric of each building are the stories of its location, its maker, and its inhabitants over time. Lavishly illustrated with almost 300 photographs, this volume highlights eighty-five stone houses in the region. The editors explore both the beauty and permanence of the stonework and the courage and ambition of the early dwellers. They detail the ways in which skilled masons utilized local limestone and sandstone, crafting double-faced stone walls to protect against fire and harsh winters. The book includes discussions of the geology of the region, the stone buildings that have been lost, and the preservation and care of existing structures. Stone Houses of Jefferson County provides a fascinating look at the intrinsic beauty of these buildings and the historical links they provide to our early settlement.

Author : Richard Guy Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village written by Richard Guy Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia is widely hailed as a masterpiece. It is his greatest architectural accomplishment, the summation of his quest for intellectual freedom. The story of the University encompasses the political and architectural worlds, as Jeffeson struggled against great opposition to establish a new type of educational institution. Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village offers a comprehensive look at Jefferson's design for the University, at how it came into being, at the different perecptions of its successes and failures, and at the alterations that have taken place down through the years. The revised edition incorporates research that has been ongoing since the book first appeared in 1993, and includes a preface by Richard Guy Wilson, essays on architecture and education and the Lawn, additional architectural drawings and historic photographs, a foreword by President John T. Casteen III, and numerous color illustrations.

Author : Hugh Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196607
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson written by Hugh Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings written by Thomas Jefferson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the architectural drawings of American President, Thomas Jefferson. The sketches demonstrate how the imaginative and mathematical mind of Jefferson took shape.

Author : Joel Kovarsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813935584
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The True Geography of Our Country written by Joel Kovarsky and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath, Thomas Jefferson lived at a time when geography was considered the "mother of all sciences." Although he published only a single printed map, Jefferson was also regarded as a geographer, owing to his interest in and use of geographic and cartographic materials during his many careers—attorney, farmer, sometime surveyor, and regional and national politician—and in his twilight years at Monticello. For roughly twenty-five years he was involved in almost all elements of the urban planning of Washington, D.C., and his surveying skills were reflected in his architectural drawings, including those of the iconic grounds of the University of Virginia. He understood maps not only as valuable for planning but as essential for future land claims and development, exploration and navigation, and continental commercial enterprise. In The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson’s Cartographic Vision, Joel Kovarsky charts the importance of geography and maps as foundational for Jefferson’s lifelong pursuits. Although the world had already seen the Age of Exploration and the great sea voyages of Captain James Cook, Jefferson lived in a time when geography was of primary importance, prefiguring the rapid specializations of the mid- to late-nineteenth-century world. In this illustrated exploration of Jefferson’s passion for geography—including his role in planning the route followed and regions explored by Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, as well as other expeditions into the vast expanse of the Louisiana Purchase—Kovarsky reveals how geographical knowledge was essential to the manifold interests of the Sage of Monticello.