[PDF]->Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Writen - Jean H Baker

Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

By : Jean H Baker

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An English ?migr? who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created someof the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall and the Senate, House, and Supreme Court Chambers.As a young man, Latrobe was apprenticed to both a leading architect and civil engineer in London, studied the European continent's architectural and engineering monuments, worked on canals, and designed private houses. After the death of his first wife, he was bankrupt and emigrated to the UnitedStates in 1796 to restart his career. For the new nation with grand political expectations, he intended buildings and engineering projects to match those aspirations. Like his patron Thomas Jefferson, Latrobe saw his neoclassical designs as a way to convey American

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Author : Jean H Baker

Pages : 304 pages

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

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ISBN-10 : 0190696451

ISBN-13 : 9780190696450

 

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