Download or read book Thomas Jefferson s Rotunda Restored 1973 76 written by Joseph Lee Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an illustrated architectural history, written in layman's terms, of the famed Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed and built the Rotunda to be the heart -- the library -- of his beloved university. Jefferson, a classicist, based his design of the Rotunda on the Greek Pantheon. The book is divided into two parts. Part one traces the Rotunda through the past two centuries. Key events are highlighted, and Jefferson's drawings and plans for the Rotunda. Part two describes in detail the restoration work from 1973 to 1976. Over fifty color photographs depict the stages of restoration from preparation to construction to completion and dedication. All the problems of adaptation and restoration management are raised in the context of the different opinions of architects and master craftsmen in their interpretation of Jefferson's plans and designs. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson s Rotunda Restored 1973 76 written by Joseph Lee Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an illustrated architectural history, written in layman's terms, of the famed Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson designed and built the Rotunda to be the heart -- the library -- of his beloved university. Jefferson, a classicist, based his design of the Rotunda on the Greek Pantheon. The book is divided into two parts. Part one traces the Rotunda through the past two centuries. Key events are highlighted, and Jefferson's drawings and plans for the Rotunda. Part two describes in detail the restoration work from 1973 to 1976. Over fifty color photographs depict the stages of restoration from preparation to construction to completion and dedication. All the problems of adaptation and restoration management are raised in the context of the different opinions of architects and master craftsmen in their interpretation of Jefferson's plans and designs. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson s Original Design for the Rotunda at the Virginia State Capital written by Brian P. McRoberts and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated draft discussing the original plans for the rotunda Thomas Jefferson proposed, and how they changed over time and construction into the final outcome.
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.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson s Rotunda Villas Built and Unbuilt written by Carol Hunt Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians written by Society of Architectural Historians and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes special issues.
Download or read book The Law School at the University of Virginia written by Philip Mills Herrington and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a masterwork of Thomas Jefferson, the "Academical Village" at the heart of the University of Virginia has long attracted the attention of visitors and scholars alike. Yet today Jefferson’s original structures make up only a small fraction of a campus comprising over 1,600 acres. The Law School at the University of Virginia traces the history of one of the eight original schools of the University to study the development of the University Grounds over nearly two hundred years. In this book, Philip Mills Herrington relates the remarkable story of how the Law School and the University have used architecture to reconcile a desire for progress with a veneration for the past. In addition to providing a fascinating history of one of the oldest and most influential law schools in the United States, Herrington offers a valuable case study of the ways in which American universities have constructed, altered, and enhanced the built environment in response to the ever-changing demands of higher education and campus life.
Download or read book The Making of Virginia Architecture written by Charles E. Brownell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long tradition of architecture in Virginia begins with the earliest structures at the Jamestown settlement in 1607, and continues today with some of the most advanced buildings yet completed anywhere. In its legendary landmarks -- Mount Vernon, Monticello, the Virginia Capitol building in Richmond, the James River plantation mansions, the Reynolds Metals headquarters building in Richmond, Washington National Airport, and Dulles International Airport -- as well as in homes, churches, stores, and office buildings across the state, Virginia's architecture is a mirror of the many expressions of America's built environments. This book invites the readers on a journey through the eye and mind of the architect, from the very drawings that give shape and form to the idea, through the tracks and traces found in long lost letters, office records, and other primary sources. You will never see the buildings around you, anywhere, in the same way again. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book The Publishers Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The University of Virginia written by Susan Tyler Hitchcock and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive treatment of Mr. Jefferson's favorite institution, with an updated section on entering the twenty-first century. In the nearly two centuries since the first building's completion in Thomas Jefferson's academical village, programs and facilities at the University of Virginia have been continually expanded and updated. The four years since the first publication of The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History have been no exception to that tradition: science and technology, athletics, public service, international programs, business, and the arts are just a few of the current growth areas at Mr. Jefferson's university. When the Board of Visitors approved a new master plan for growth and development in 1999--and the capital campaign of 2000 supported its ambitious outline with a $1.4 billion purse--they set in motion massive upgrades at the university. A South Lawn complex and "groundswalk" to reconnect the sprawling areas of the university, a new special collections library, expanded.
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.".
Download or read book Mr Jefferson s Rotunda written by Frederick Doveton Nichols and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of Thomas Jefferson s Rotunda at the University of Virginia and the Pantheon in Rome written by Joseph Michael Lasala and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magazine of Albemarle County History written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Virginia Alumni News written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hidden White House written by Robert Klara and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1948, Harry Truman, President of the United States, almost fell through the ceiling of the Blue Room in a bathtub into a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A team of the nation's top architects was hastily assembled to inspect the White House, and upon seeing the state the old mansion was in, insisted the First Family be evicted immediately. What followed was the biggest home-improvement job the nation had ever seen"--
Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
