Charleston Architecture: 1670-1860
by Gene Waddell
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This book is about how a consistently high standard of excellence was achieved in Charleston architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Regardless of what style Charleston's architects used—Greek or Roman, Gothic or Renaissance, Adamesque or Greek Revival—they were in agreement about what constituted excellence. Special emphasis is placed on the knowledge that was required to create Charleston's early architecture. An introduction discusses the writings and buildings of show more Andrea Palladio, Robert Adam, A. Welby Pugin, and other influential architects. Sources of inspiration for Charleston buildings have included specific buildings in Greece, Italy, England, France and Germany. Whenever possible, primary sources of information were used to determine how various types of Charleston buildings were designed and constructed. A dozen of the city's best-documented buildings are considered in detail as a basis for comparison: show lessTags
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Gene Waddell is an architectural historian, archivist, and museum administrator. He is the author of more than 30 articles and monographs, including Indians of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Charleston in 1883, and Collecting, Preserving, Exhibiting. He served as the director of the South Carolina Historical Society, in archival and curatorial show more positions for the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, and joined the staff of the Canadian Centre for Architecture to serve as the director of library collections. (Publisher Provided) show less
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