Capital Drawings

Architectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7232-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 258 mm x 313 mm, Gewicht: 2425 g

The history and development of Washington D.C. as seen through its buildings, monuments, and public and private spaces.

Over the past ten years, the Library of Congress has cataloged more than forty thousand drawings, prints, and photographs that capture important developments in the growth of Washington, D.C., and its greater metropolitan area, including Virginia and Maryland. This elegant volume, a guide to the library's massive collection, offers an introduction to its content and a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital.

Capital Drawings features drawings for some of Washington's most important buildings, monuments, and memorials—the United States Capitol, the White House, and the Vietnam Memorial—as well as anonymous structures of everyday life and ambitious projects that were never built. These newly available documents tell the story of the capital's planning and growth. Each of these "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of its creators and sponsors.

Featuring essays from distinguished scholars in preservation, architecture, and history, Capital Drawings invites us to explore the history and development of a city and nation through the buildings, monuments, and public and private spaces that have given them physical form and symbolic meaning.

Contributors: Richard Longstreth, George Washington University; C. Ford Peatross, Library of Congress; Pamela Scott, American University; William Seale, White House Historical Association; Damie Stillman, Society of Architectural Historians; Gwendolyn Wright, Columbia University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peatross, C Ford

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sinclair, Evelyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Dimensions of Documents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1. Washington, D.C.: From L'Enfant's Dream to Edge City
Chapter 2. The United States Capitol: Icon of the Republic
Chapter 3. The White House: Seat of the Presidency
Chapter 4. Building for Business: Commercial Architecture in Metropolitan Washington
Chapter 5. Twentieth-Century Housing: Single-Family Residences, Apartment Buildings, and Planned Communities
Chapter 6. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Grateful Memory, Lost Bravado
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Exploring the Architecture, Design, and Engineering Collections and Ordering Reproductions
Appendix B. Architects, Designers, and Engineers: A List of Online Resources
Notes
Essay on Sources
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peatross, C Ford
C. Ford Peatross is curator of the architecture, design, and engineering collections at the Library of Congress.

C. Ford Peatross is curator of the architecture, design, and engineering collections at the Library of Congress.