The complete house and grounds
Subtitle: learning from Andrew Jackson Downing's domestic architecture
By: Caren Yglesias
Contributors: Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781935195245
Subjects: Biography; Domestic Architecture; Landscape architecture; History; Criticism and interpretation; Architects; Country homes
Other titles: Learning from Andrew Jackson Downing's domestic architecture
Description: Andrew Jackson Downing, now considered the father of American landscape architecture, was among the first to develop aesthetic theories that differed sharply from those perpetuated in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. He designed houses based upon American democratic values and advocated for domestic design that would satisfy basic human needs along with the desire to live well. In this book, Caren Yglesias, a practicing architect, examines Downing's legacy with an eye for relevance to today's domestic landscape. She builds on Downing's work in order to redefine what makes a "complete," or nurturing and fulfilling, house and grounds.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Andrew Jackson Downing : a life; title: Design principles. Adapting foreign influences for the American audience; title: Truthful architecture; title: Truthful landscapes; title: House and grounds. A regular house with a subdivided floor plan; title: An irregular house with an assembled floor plan; title: Linking a proprietor's character to architecture and landscape; title: Original forms of dwelling. The secure cave; title: The mediating tent; title: The hut of instruments; title: Applying a language of sensibilities; title: Methods of personification, allegory, and animation; title: Conclusion.