The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
By: Michael Fazio, Patrick A. Snadon.
Contributors: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.; Snadon, Patrick Alexander, 1952-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 769
Subjects: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 -- Criticism and interpretation; Architecture, Domestic -- United States; Architecture, Domestic -- England; Architecture -- United States -- 18th century; Architecture -- United States -- 19th century; Architecture -- England -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reinterpreting Latrobe; title: Learning the profession: Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell; title: Hammerwood and Ashdown: Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural Avant Garde of the 1790s; title: Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country; title: Houses for a landed gentry: Virginia (1795-1798); title: Houses for the merchant elite: Philadelphia (1798-1807); title: Houses for the young Republic: Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh (1807-1815); title: Houses for an expanding democracy: Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans (1815-1820); title: Perspectives on a career; title: Epilogue: A preservation history of Latrobe's houses and note on the vicissitudes of the Avant Garde.