Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

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This deeply researched and abundantly illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English emigre and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment thinking to the design of a proper living environment for the citizens of the world's most recent democracy. Establishing a new benchmark in Latrobe studies, Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon extend their analysis to Latrobe's training and career in England and Europe, his principles of design, and his methods of architectural practice.The authors trace the evolution of his design thinking through analytical essays on all of his major domestic commissions and conclude with a summary discussion of his position within the international architectural scene, his design theories, the integration of interior design and engineering into his architectural practice, and the preservation of his houses.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-08-14
Mått229 x 279 x 57 mm
Vikt3 402 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor816
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801881046
UtmärkelserCommended for PROSE Award for Architecture and Urban Planning 2007 (United States)

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reinterpreting LatrobeChapter 1. Learning the ProfessionChapter 2. Hammerwood and AshdownChapter 3. Reinventing the American HouseChapter 4. Houses for the Virginia Landed Gentry (1795–1798)Chapter 5. Practice In Philadelphia (1798–1807)Chapter 6. A Capital City and an Expanding Democracy (1807–1815)Chapter 7. Last Houses (1815–1820)Chapter 8. Some Perspectives on an Architect's CareerEpilogue: A Preservation History of Latrobe's House and Notes on the Vicissitudes of the Avant-GardeCatalogue of Domestic ProjectsNotesBibliographical EssayIndex

Nothing is spared in the way of breadth and depth of scholarship, nor in the way of production quality. Antiques Today 2006 A comprehensive 'must' for any serious college-level architectural history holding. California Bookwatch 2006 A valuable resource for architects, designers, and homeowners alike. Chesapeake Home Magazine 2007 Nothing is spared in the way of breadth and depth of scholarship, nor in the way of production quality-for a definitive study of this important, but generally overlooked, American architect. -- Henry Berry Midwest Book Review 2007 Handsomely produced and admirably researched. -- Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe Journal of Southern History 2008 Because of its exhaustive analysis... Fazio and Snadon's volume will serve as a standard reference in Latrobe historiography. -- Barbara Burlison Mooney ARRIS 2007