ESSAYS
*NEW* – Ed Ford: Some Thoughts on Architecture at Virginia,
A Talk to the Society of Fellows of the University of Virginia given, December 5, 2005
Richard Guy Wilson: “This Beautiful Art” Lessons
we can still learn from Thomas Jefferson’s architecture
Elizabeth K. Meyer: From Style to Substance:
Replacing the Sight of Architecture with the Sites of Architecture
Kenneth Schwartz: Architectural Integrity at UVA
Jason Johnson: The Project (Just South
of the Lawn)
Daniel Bluestone:PRESERVING WHILE
FORGETTING: The Loss of Jeffersonian Principles at UVA
Lance Hosey: Notes on the State of Architecture
in Virginia (PDF file)
David Bell: Knowledge and the Middle
Landscape: Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia. (PDF file)
From JAE, Winter, 1983, included with author's permission.
Edward Ford
NEWS ARTICLES
Response to Faculty Open Letter
from Traditionalists (PDF)
University
selects South Lawn architects
Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, a Santa Monica,
Calif.-based architecture firm, was selected to work on the South
Lawn Project yesterday. According to University Relations, the
firm has been contracted to work on phase one, or the first four
buildings, that will comprise the South Lawn Project.View
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A
Classical Return?: South Lawn Project at UVa Requires Traditional
Architecture
Washington. More than half a century ago, a new modernist elite
decreed that it was no longer permissible for traditional architecture
to continue to adapt to new building technologies and social needs,
as it had been doing for thousands of years. That elite forced
a complete break with the past, and our world is a good deal uglier
as a result. View
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BOV
Welcomes Faculty Critique
Chairman Mark J. Kington took time during the Buildings and Grounds
Committee meeting to address concerns raised by two dozen faculty
members from the School of Architecture. The faculty took out
an advertisement in the Cavalier Daily to criticize the design
of new construction on Grounds, calling it “mediocre”
and “faux Jeffersonian … confused between style and
substance.” View
entire article>
