Book
The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Table Of Contents
- 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
Subject
Architecture, Domestic / Architecture / 18th century / 19th century
Details
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Language
English
Material
xx, 769 p., 22 p. of plates
ISBN
0801881048 / 9780801881046
Location
In Process - TCDC Bangkok Transit
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