Title & Author:

American architects and their books to 1848 / edited by Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O'Gorman.

Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxii, 231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Architects and books / Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O'Gorman -- The availability of architectural books in eighteenth-century New England / Abbott Lowell Cummings -- The ownership of architectural books in colonial Virginia / Bennie Brown -- George Washington, Mount Vernon, and the pattern books / Robert F. Dalzell Jr. -- Thomas Jefferson's "bibliomanie" and architecture / Richard Guy Wilson -- Defining the profession : books, libraries, and architects / Martha J. McNamara -- Bulfinch, buildings, and books / James F. O'Gorman -- The architectural libraries of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- The country builder's assistant : text and context / Kenneth Hafertepe -- Owen Biddle and The young carpenter's assisant / Michael J. Lewis -- Architectural books in New York : from McComb to Lafever / Damie Stillman -- Asher Benjamin, Andrew Jackson Downing : two divergent forms of bookmaking / Charles B. Wood -- Louisa Tuthill, Ithiel Town, and the beginnings of architectural history writing in America / Sarah Allaback.

Summary:

"Since the Renaissance books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, twelve historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States." "The essays in this volume range from studies of architectural publications available in the colonies to the appearance of American architectural incunabula to the revolution in architectural publishing that occurred in the 1830s and 1840s."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1558492828 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781558492820 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture United States History 18th century.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architectural writing United States History.
Communication in architecture United States History.
Architecture United States 18th century.
Architecture Art d'écrire États-Unis Histoire.
Communication en architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture États-Unis 17e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis 18e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 18e siècle.
Architectural writing.
Architecture.
Communication in architecture.
Architekt
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Literatur
Architekturgeschichtsschreibung
Bouwkunst.
Boeken.
Beroepsopvattingen.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Biografie 1600-1900.
History.

Added entries:

Hafertepe, Kenneth, 1955-
O'Gorman, James F.
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217627
Call No.: NA707 .A47 2001
Status: Available

Location: Library main 217628
Call No.: NA707 .A47 2001
Status: Available