Main entry:

Fazio, Michael W.

Title & Author:

The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Description:

xx, 769 pages, 22 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Book design by Robert L. Wiser, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Frontispiece. Portrait of Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Charles Willson Peale (White House Collection; courtesy of White House Historical Association).

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0801881048 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801881046

Subject:

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 Criticism and interpretation.
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry 1764-1820
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Domestic England.
Architecture United States History 18th century.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture England History 18th century.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Architektur
Herrenhaus
Wohnungsbau
England
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Architecture England 18th century
Architecture United States 18th century
Architecture United States 19th century
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry Criticism and interpretation

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Books.

Added entries:

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
Snadon, Patrick Alexander, 1952-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 246109
Call No.: BIB 175717
Status: Available