Screen LibraryThe domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Baltimore |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 769 p., 22 p. of plates: ill. (some col.), maps, plans (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0801881048 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801881046 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | TU |
| CLC: | TU-867.12 |
| Call Number: | TU-867.12/F287 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 704-754) and index. Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe -- Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s -- Reinventing the American house: an overview of Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country -- Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795-1798): Latrobe's first explorations of the American context -- Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807): designs for a merchant elite, countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the emergence of the rational house -- A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807-1815): houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh -- Last houses (1815-1820): Latrobe's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans -- Some perspectives on an architect's career -- Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobe's houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde. |