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Author | : Michael W. Fazio |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 831 |
Release | : 2006-06-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0801881048 |
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Author | : Marshall B. Davidson |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2018-01-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1640191054 |
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe was a man of extraordinary talents - and high standards. One of the first professional architects in the United States, British-born Latrobe made his mark on America with his insistence on function as well as form. Among his most recognizable achievements are the central portion of the U.S. Capitol, the east and west wings of the White House, and Ashland, the home of Henry Clay. Here, in this short-form book by historian Marshall B. Davidson, is Latrobe's remarkable story.
Author | : Jean H. Baker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0190696451 |
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An English émigré who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall and the Senate, House, and Supreme Court Chambers. As a young man, Latrobe was apprenticed to both a leading architect and civil engineer in London, studied the European continent's architectural and engineering monuments, worked on canals, and designed private houses. After the death of his first wife, he was bankrupt and emigrated to the United States in 1796 to restart his career. For the new nation with grand political expectations, he intended buildings and engineering projects to match those aspirations. Like his patron Thomas Jefferson, Latrobe saw his neoclassical designs as a way to convey American democracy. He envisioned his engineering projects, such as the canals and municipal water systems for Philadelphia and New Orleans, as a way to unite the nation and improve public health. Jean Baker conveys the personality of this charming, driven, and often frustrated genius and the era in which he lived. Latrobe tried to establish architecture as a profession with high standards, established fees, and recognized procedures, though he was unable to collect fees and earn the living his work was worth. Like many of his peers, he speculated and found himself in bankruptcy several times. Building America masterfully narrates the life and legacy of a key figure in creating an American aesthetic in the new United States.
Author | : Talbot Hamlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Julia A. Sienkewicz |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 2019-11-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1644531615 |
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Winner of College Art Association’s Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant Epic Landscapes is the first study devoted to architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s substantial artistic oeuvre from 1795, when he set sail from Britain to Virginia, to late 1798, when he relocated to Pennsylvania. Thus, this book offers the only extended consideration of Latrobe’s Virginian watercolors, including a series of complex trompe l’oeil studies and three significant illustrated manuscripts. Though Latrobe’s architecture is well known, his watercolors have received little critical attention. Epic Landscapes rediscovers Latrobe’s watercolors as an ambitious body of work and reconsiders the close relationship between the visual and spatial sensibility of these images and his architectural designs. It also offers a fresh analysis of Latrobe within the context of creative practice in the Atlantic world at the end of the eighteenth century as he explored contemporary ideas concerning the form of art for Republican society and the social impacts of revolution.
Author | : Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300023831 |
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe was best known as the architect of the United States Capitol. His career as surveyor, architect, engineer took him to many places in the US, and in close contact with Thomas Jefferson. Also known for designing the Richmond Penitentiary, the Bank of Pennsylvania and the Baltimore Cathedral, as well as the historical study and annotation of the Susquehanna River Survey Map. Latrobe played a major role in the creation of the American technological community, publishing many scientific papers, technical reports, newspaper and journal articles and essays. Latrobe moved from Richmond to Philadelphia in late 1798 to execute his first great commission, the Bank of Pennsylvania. He sporadically wrote in the journals printed in this volume while in such cities as Philadelphia, New Castle, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., where he served as architect of the U.S. Capitol. He kept journals more regularly while in New Orleans during the last year of his life - he died in 1820. In addition to recording daily events, Latrobe made observations on a wide variety of topics, from the origins of yellow fever to slavery and black music in New Orleans. His pen-and-ink drawings and watercolors compliment the text.
Author | : Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019444016 |
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Latrobe's journal offers a unique glimpse into life in America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As an architect, naturalist, and traveler, Latrobe was uniquely qualified to observe and document the people and places of his time. With fascinating descriptions of landscapes, people, and events, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in American history and culture. This 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 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. 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 | : Leonard K. Eaton |
Publisher | : William L. Bauhan |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benjamin Henry Latrobe |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300029499 |
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The 161 drawings, sketches, and watercolors in the volume cover a wide variety of subjects: rivers, roads, bridges, canals, towns, flora and fauna, people in their homes and at work and play.
Author | : Coppa & Avery Consultants |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1980 |
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