Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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An American Vision of Harmony
Geometric Proportions in Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Abstract. Thomas Jefferson dedicated his later years to establishing the University of Virginia, believing that the availability of a public liberal education was essential to national prosperity and individual happiness. His design for the University stands as one of his greatest accomplishments and has been called “the proudest achievement of American architecture.” Taking Jefferson’s design drawings as a basis for study, this paper explores the possibility that he incorporated incommensurable geometric proportions in his designs for the Rotunda. Without actual drawings to illustrate specific geometric constructions, it cannot be said definitively that Jefferson utilized such proportions. But a comparative analysis between Jefferson’s plans and Palladio’s renderings of the Pantheon (Jefferson’s primary design source) suggests that both designs developed from similar geometric techniques.
An American Vision of Harmony
Geometric Proportions in Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Abstract. Thomas Jefferson dedicated his later years to establishing the University of Virginia, believing that the availability of a public liberal education was essential to national prosperity and individual happiness. His design for the University stands as one of his greatest accomplishments and has been called “the proudest achievement of American architecture.” Taking Jefferson’s design drawings as a basis for study, this paper explores the possibility that he incorporated incommensurable geometric proportions in his designs for the Rotunda. Without actual drawings to illustrate specific geometric constructions, it cannot be said definitively that Jefferson utilized such proportions. But a comparative analysis between Jefferson’s plans and Palladio’s renderings of the Pantheon (Jefferson’s primary design source) suggests that both designs developed from similar geometric techniques.
An American Vision of Harmony
Geometric Proportions in Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Fletcher, Rachel (Autor:in)
Nexus Network Journal ; 5 ; 7-50
01.10.2003
44 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Rachel Fletcher , Thomas Jefferson , University of Virginia Rotunda , ellipses , geometry , geometric analysis , geometric progressions , geometric systems , ad quadratum , ad triangulatum , phi , golden section , golden number , golden mean , incommensurables , irrational ratios , irrational numbers , irrationals means , ovals , polygons , proportion , proportional analysis , proportional systems , ratio , regular polygons , equilateral triangle , square , regular pentagon , sacred cut , sacred geometry , symmetry , vesica piscis , theory of proportion in architecture , Leon Battista Alberti , Sebastiano Serlio , Andrea Palladio , Vitruvius , Pantheon , Benjamin LaTrobe , divine proportion , Colonial American architecture Mathematics , Mathematics, general , History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics , Popular Science, general , History, general
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