Thomas Jefferson at Monticello – To See and be Seen
Throughout his life Thomas Jefferson was continually putting his house Monticello up or pushing it down as his knowledge and experience of life and architecture expanded.
Thomas Jefferson
La Casa di Villa – Dwelling under the Tent of Heaven
The precise location of heaven on earth has never really been established, but it could very well be a villa designed to cultivate the head heart body and soul
Franklin & Jefferson – Founding The Architecture of Freedom
The 18th century neoclassical movement in Europe and England admired the forms of ancient Greece and Rome. In America they became an important aspect of the architecture of freedom
The American Dream – Great Books Helping the Vision Pt 2
21st-century readers can immerse themselves in Thomas Jefferson’s mind and in the American dream in his library, within the Library of Congress at Washington DC
The American Dream – Great Books Helping the Vision Pt 1
In the 18th century books about what was beautiful and right inspired those founding a new Rome in America to have a vision of liberty freedom & justice for all
Charles Clérisseau – Inspiring Architectural Excellence
A drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A) at London by Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) penned 1762 – 1766 is believed to be of the French drawing master considered one of the most original architectural draughtsmen in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Europe Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721 –…
Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Life
The study of architecture as a profession in our contemporary sense did not exist in the colonies of England when Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) went to college in 1760. Many of England’s grandest tourists were gentlemen architects. At 17 he had an uncommon capacity for applying himself and he taught himself…
English Palladianism in America
Noted English architectural historian the late great Sir John Summerson (1904 – 1992) described English Palladianism, as it has become known, as ‘that balanced combination of the useful and the beautiful, or prosperity and good breeding’. What it did do was satisfy the need for a style that encompassed the…