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The architect's knowledge : imagining the profession's historical body, 1797-1883 / by Bryan E. Norwood.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA710 .N67 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Norwood, Bryan E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--United States--History--19th century.
- Architecture.
- Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887.
- Walter, Thomas Ustick.
- Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879.
- Tuthill, Louisa C.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Production:
- 2018.
- Summary:
- "This dissertation explores architects' intellectual and institutional quest in the early American republic to define the knowledge of architecture's own history as a framework for the profession's expertise and a way to delimit membership in the profession's body...Looking at the teachings of Thomas U. Walter and the writings of Louisa C. Tuthill, I examine how a combination of Protestantism, Republican political philosophy, Scottish Enlightenment epistemology, and the aesthetics of associationist environmentalism were enlisted to shape the knowledge of architecture's history"--p. iii.
- Notes:
- Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of architecture), Harvard University, September, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-416).
- Photocopy.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the author.
- OCLC:
- 1079065670
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