University of Virginia: The Campus Guides

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Thomas Jefferson, third president of america, felt that the founding and design of the University of Virginia in 1819 was once his such a lot lasting success. Jefferson’s Academical Village centers at the Rotunda, the Lawn, and ten neoclassical Pavilions. As of late, spanning 1,065 acres and the 80 buildings described on 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 latest works, from Jefferson’s highly ordered nineteenth-century village to the suburban postmodern campus of the past due twentieth century.
This beautifully photographed guide reveals the stories in the back of over 80 buildings, historic gardens, art galleries, theaters, and works of sculpture at the University of Virginia campus.
Exquisitely painted three-dimensional maps locate featured buildings at the campus and six sub-districts-The Lawn, Central Grounds, West Grounds, Health Sciences Center, Rugby Road and Carr’s Hill, North Grounds, and Observatory Hill.
Finally, archival photographs and drawings recapture fragments of “lost” buildings and recall notable historic moments.

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