Main entry:

Lounsbury, Carl.

Title & Author:

Essays in early American architectural history : a view from the Chesapeake / Carl R. Lounsbury.

Publication:

Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Description:

ix, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Reshaping the study of early American architecture -- The origins of early American architecture. Early American architecture : a transatlantic perspective -- Adaptation and innovation : archaeological and architectural -- Perspectives on the seventeenth-century Chesapeake -- The English origins of the Jamestown rowhouses -- The design and building process. "An elegant and commodious building" : William Buckland and the design of the Prince William County Courthouse -- The dynamics of architectural design in eighteenth-century Charleston and the low country -- Regional building patterns : ecclesiastical architecture. Anglican church design in the Chesapeake : English inheritances and regional interpretations -- Christ Church, Savannah : loopholes in metropolitan design on the frontier -- "Building is a heavy burden" : the legacy of eighteenth-century church building in the Middle Atlantic colonies -- God is in the details : the transformation of ecclesiastical architecture in early-nineteenth-century America -- Williamsburg. Ornaments of civic aspiration : the public buildings of Williamsburg -- Beaux-arts ideals and colonial reality : the reconstruction of Williamsburg's capitol, 1928-1934 -- The changing perceptions of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg.

Summary:

The essays in this collection represent the type of research that has reshaped our understanding of early American architecture over the past thirty years. Carl R. Lounsbury, three-time winner of the prestigious Abbott Lowell Cummings Award offered by the Vernacular Architecture Forum, traces the manner in which domestic, ecclesiastical, and public architecture illuminate the dynamics and aspirations of early American society.

ISBN:

9780813931104 (cloth ; alk. paper)
081393110X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813932293 (pbk.)
0813932297 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture United States History.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

View from the Chesapeake

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278890
Call No.: BIB 214601
Status: Available