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Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece

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Thomas Jefferson’s design for the University of Virginia is widely hailed as a masterpiece. It’s his greatest architectural accomplishment, the summation of his quest for intellectual freedom. The story of the University encompasses the political and architectural worlds, as Jeffeson struggled against great opposition to establish a new form of educational institution. Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village offers a comprehensive take a look at Jefferson’s design for the University, at how it came into being, on the different perecptions of its successes and screw ups, and on the alterations that have taken place down over the years.

The revised edition contains research that has been ongoing because the book first seemed in 1993, and includes a preface by Richard Guy Wilson, essays on architecture and education and the Lawn, additional architectural drawings and historic photographs, a foreword by President John T. Casteen III, and a large number of color illustrations.

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