University of Virginia

Name: University of Virginia
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ISBN: 9781568981680

ISBN-10: 1568981686

ISBN-13: 9781568981680

Edition: 1999

Authors: Sarah Butler, Richard Guy Wilson

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Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, felt that the founding and design of the University of Virginia in 1819 was his most lasting achievement. Jefferson's Academical Village centers on the Rotunda, the Lawn, and ten neoclassical Pavilions. Today, spanning 1,065 acres and the 80 buildings described in this guide, the campus features major architectural works by McKim, Mead & White, Michael Graves, Robert A. M. Stern, Hugh Stubbins, Hartman-Cox, and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Award-winning historian Richard Guy Wilson and Sara A. Butler take the reader on an enjoyable tour of the University's heritage and recent works, from Jefferson's highly ordered nineteenth-century…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Richard Guy Wilson is chair and Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.



Acknowledgments


How to use this book


Foreword



Introduction to the University of Virginia



The Lawn



Central Grounds



West Grounds



Health Sciences Center



Rugby Road and Carr's Hill



North Grounds



Observatory Hill


Bibliography


Illustration credits


Index