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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Palladian"”.
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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat
… century became the fundamental motif of Palladianism in Virginia architecture, generating a line of offspring that proliferated in the eighteenth century and beyond. The Palladian plantation (Sweet Briar House I, c. 1800) featured this double portico. In 1851, following the return of the …
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Of good use or serious pleasure : Vitruvius Britannicus and early eighteenth century architectural discourse
… is not, as it has been frequently seen, a Palladian manifesto designed to change architectural practice in England (and in the process Campbell's own fortunes as an architect), but rather a publication celebrating architectural achievements, consumed by polite society. The twentieth century …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
… Cocke's most ambitious project, a Jeffersonian Palladian mansion called Bremo, was in the planning stages by 1815. The second thesis is that Cocke's off-plantation buildings signals his break from the Palladianism of Thomas Jefferson in favor of the Jacobean style for his houses and his …
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The Redecoration and Alteration of Castletown House By Lady Louisa Conolly 1759-76
… County Kildare is the largest and finest palladian1 country house in Ireland. Its building in 1722 marked the beginning of the palladian invasion of Ireland and the house is contemporary with the earliest examples of palladianism in England. The elegance and formality of Castletown may …
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All done by mirrors: reflectivity in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75)
… the texts which they reflect (upon), as follows: Palladian (1946) and "Hester Lilly" are located within the Gothic tradition in women's writing, but their application of a Bloomian kenosis to its major text, Jane Eyre (1847), is noted. A View of The Harbour (1947) and A Wreath Of Roses (1949) are …
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A design visualization machine : an agile prototype for architectural plans on a finite grid
… Rohe and research into the schematic plans of Palladian villas, it was determined that 1) fundamental structural components are the column and the wall, and 2) simple architectural plans can be well represented by a finite grid system on which those components are laid out. The proposed system …
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Comedy and the middlebrow novel :Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim.
… to interpretation, particularly in Taylor's Palladian (1946), which meditates on the meaning and value of fiction. My analysis of this innovation challenges the perception of these middlebrow novels as straightforwardly realist, and shows them to be not merely light entertainment, but …
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Expansion and contraction: Goethean polarity and architecture
… architectural case studies using samples of Palladian villas, Baroque palaces, Gothic cathedrals, and English manor houses. After developing an understanding of polarized architectural body-limb relations, a procedural polarity machine is developed to apply principles of metamorphosis towards …
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James Gibbs's Early Career: The Formation of a European Architect
James Gibbs was the most successful architect working in England of his generation. This thesis looks at a period of his career that was of fundamental importance to his success, but that has received insufficient coverage in the scholarship: his formation and, particularly, his training in Rome. …