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This deeply researched and abundantly illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English emigre and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment ...

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Overview

This deeply researched and abundantly illustrated study catalogs all of Latrobe's domestic commissions, offering an authoritative treatment of the concepts, designs, and unique interior and exterior features of his houses.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, an English emigre and the first professional architect of international stature to practice in the United States, invented an American house type for the new democratic republic. Calling upon his diverse education and travel experiences in Europe and his training with eminent architects and engineers in London, Latrobe responded to American manners and climate by producing what he called his "rational house," an application of Enlightenment thinking to the design of a proper living environment for the citizens of the world's most recent democracy.

Establishing a new benchmark in Latrobe studies, Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon extend their analysis to Latrobe's training and career in England and Europe, his principles of design, and his methods of architectural practice. The authors trace the evolution of his design thinking through analytical essays on all of his major domestic commissions and conclude with a summary discussion of his position within the international architectural scene, his design theories, the integration of interior design and engineering into his architectural practice, and the preservation of his houses.

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Nothing is spared in the way of breadth and depth of scholarship, nor in the way of production quality.

From The Critics

Because of its exhaustive analysis... Fazio and Snadon's volume will serve as a standard reference in Latrobe historiography.

— Barbara Burlison Mooney

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780801881046
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date: 4/15/2006
  • Pages: 816
  • Sales rank: 985,877

Meet the Author

Michael W. Fazio is a professor at the School of Architecture, Mississippi State University. Patrick A. Snadon is a professor of interior design at the School of Architecture and Interior Design, University of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

Introduction : reinterpreting Latrobe 3
1 Learning the profession ... Latrobe in the London office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell 17
2 Hammerwood and Ashdown : Latrobe's English country houses and the architectural avant-garde of the 1790s 83
3 Reinventing the American house : an overview of Latrobe's design theories and architectural practice in a new country 183
4 Houses for the Virginia landed gentry (1795-1798) : Latrobe's first explorations of the American context 209
5 Practice in Philadephia (1798-1807) : designs for a merchant elite, countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the emergence of the rational house 265
6 A capital city and an expanding democracy (1807-1815) : houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh 357
7 Last houses (1815-1820) : Latrobe's final years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans 475
8 Some perspectives on an architect's career 513
Epilogue : a preservation history of Latrobe's houses and notes on the vicissitudes of the avant-garde 571
Cataloge of domestic projects : documented houses, attributed houses, houses influenced by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and deattributed houses 589
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  • Posted January 22, 2009

    definitive study of early major American architect

    Nothing is spared in the way of breadth and depth of scholarship, nor in the way of production quality--for a definitive study of this important, but generally overlooked, American architect of the late 1700s into the early 1800s, the early period of the American Republic. A leading architect popular with the English royalty and gentry in their adaptations in a growing democratic society, Latrobe attracted the interest and commissions of the old and newly wealthy in the United States in the decades after the Revolutionary War for design of homes with many similarities to those he had done for the upper classes in his native England. And he attracted interest from government officials wishing to build impressive buildings representing the pride, the values, and the ambitions of the new Republic. Latrobe's architectural principles and designs went far in America as they had earlier in England because they characterized what he called his 'rational house' based on ideas of the Enlightenment partly originating in England and embraced by America's Founding Fathers in their creation of the basics of the American political system and its institutions. Fazio is a professor at Mississippi State U.'s School of Architecture Snadon is a professor of interior design at the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the U. of Cincinnati. The abundant biographical, critical, and analytical text with the hundreds of illustrations of all scales of architectural works are peerlessly informative standing alone. But also they work to render the authors' revisionist perspective that 'perhaps only Thomas Jefferson...held a panoramic view over the international architectural scene comparable to Latrobe.'

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