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Author: Michelle Graye
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-05-19
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1312204613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis amazing book originally published privately by Dr. William Thornton (chief architect for the Washington Capitol) is now available in a Lulu Modern First Trade Paperback edition. Fascinating look at how Thomas Jefferson worked with an architect that was of the same mindset as his (which was genius level).
Author: Marshall B. Davidson
Publisher: New Word City
Published: 2017-11-22
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 1640191038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Jefferson's influence is evident throughout the nation he helped found - from the democratic ideals he set down in the Declaration of Independence to the expansion of America's borders through the Louisiana Purchase. But the more tangible examples of his creative genius lie in his architecture - from the halls of the University of Virginia to his home on his "little mountain," Monticello. Here, in this essay by award-winning historian Marshall B. Davidson, is the story of Jefferson the architect.
Author: Gordon S. Brown
Publisher: Perspective on Art & Architect
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the late 1700s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city’s own. When William and Anna Maria Thornton arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1794, the new nation’s capital was little more than a raw village. The Edinburgh–educated Thornton and his accomplished wife brought with them the values of the Scottish Enlightenment, an enthusiasm for the arts, and a polished urbanity that was lacking in the little city emerging from the swamps along the Potomac. Thornton’s talents were manifold: He is perhaps best known as the original architect of the Capitol building, but he also served as a city commissioner and as director of the Patent Office, where his own experimentation in steam navigation embroiled him in a long-running dispute with inventor Robert Fulton. In spite of their general preoccupation with politics and real estate development, Washington’s citizens gradually created a network of cultural institutions—theaters, libraries and booksellers, music venues, churches, schools, and even colleges and intellectual associations—that began to satisfy their aspirations. Incidental Architect is a fascinating account of how the city’s cultural and social institutions were shaped by its earliest citizens.
Author: William Alexander Lambeth
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPioneering work on TJ as an architect; occasionally useful but needs to be used with more recent scholarship. -- Frank Shuffelton.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elinor Stearns
Publisher: Washington : American Institute of Architects Foundation
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. a. (William Alexander) B. 1. Lambeth
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781373191335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-01-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1608196607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYes, 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: Jack Mclaughlin
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1990-10-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780805014631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. With a sure command of sources and skilled intuituve understanding of Jefferson, McLaughlin crafts and uncommon portrait of this exceptional man--and of daily life in COlonial and Federal America. Line drawings and black-and-white photographs.
