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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lounsbury, Carl.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2011

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States--History.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

ix, 268 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

View from the Chesapeake

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813931104 (cloth : alk. paper)

081393110X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

699379226