Lecture 5: 18th CE arc: utopia, reform, revolution (part 2)

university of virginia library, thomas jefferson, et. al. charlottesville, 1822 CE

university of virginia library, thomas jefferson, et. al. charlottesville, 1822 CE

• neoclassical - built by enslaved people - rural setting

• order ste on pastrual landscape —> sahped NA settlements

Oglethrope plan, savannah, 1733

Oglethrope plan, savannah, 1733

LABEL

Oglethrope plan, savannah, 1733

basic

• savannah = self sufficient, no slavery, no alocgoal

• grid of wards - greatest EG of Ameircan trban plan

Oglethrope plan, savannah, 1733

plan

• = public square

• central azis = ___ street

• sun dials

  • square center, square = each unit forms around here

  • units = same

• central square = 4 trust lots (puiblic buuildings) = tything lots (residetial +ewar)

• local beauty + pedestriam

• yes ubran, not bnasic design (Slavery enters)

• basic units of ward = reproduced - infinity - as city grows

Stowage on the Slave

Ship Brookes

ca. 1788

“Library of Congress

Rare Book and

Special Collections

Division. LC- LC

USZ62–34160”

Men: 1.8m x .41m

Women: 1.78m x

.41m

Children: 1.5m x .36m

depicts 400 enslaved

people

built to fit 454

enslaved people

“at one time carried as

many as 744 slaves”

Robert Walsh, “Sections of a Slave Ship,” Notices of Brazil in 1828 and

1829 (London, 1830) vol. 2, 479

“The space between decks was divided into two compartments, 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18, and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls; into the second, the men and boys: 226 fellow-creatures were thus thrust into one space 288 feet square; and 336 into another space 800 feet square, giving to the whole an average of 23 inches, and to each of the women not more than 13 inches, though many of them were pregnant .

Slavery

• slavery = american arc

• rep from - used 4 - abolisiton slavery = 18th CE emerge

stouage

• enslaved - cargo like

Robert Walsj

• more space - inanimate cargo than enslaved

  • enslaved = right

• arc drawing = use 4 prop = show slavery = inhumane

charleston single hous

charleston house

• bnased on slavery —> rich

• slave - (kids + ) = inc ½ od charlestons population

Charleston single

• +++ porcj = circulation

  • used in decelopment

  • derived from verenadah of african structure

    • ++

• gernoeruse dimesions of vernaha - take care of tropical climatew

clapping

• west africa houses - activiities = outdoord

  • juxtaposes by necloassical sructures

shotgun hous

shotgun house

• Southe originetaed - new orleans

• haitian building - moste new city

• new typology

tehory

1. fire shotgun - foor open = enfilade - soors line up - will fly out

2. togun - african term

Gullah/Geechee architecture, Sea Islands Praise Hous

Gullah/Geechee architecture, Sea Islands Praise Hous

• greatest degree of west african retention

• west african language

• - primite hit

• gullah. oeioke - overall distinct culture - 1991 - daughters of the dust

Coincoin-Prudhomme Home (Maison de Marie-Thérèse), Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1788-1794, 1828-1847

Coincoin-Prudhomme Home (Maison de Marie-Thérèse), Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1788-1794, 1828-1847

basic

• marie therese - ensalved by Natchitoches - housekeeper + 7 kids

• mormon plan, Creolee (French —> Louisinanne, no race)

• purchase = freedom - yrs allownce

• raised tabacco - inc wealth - bought enslaved people herslef - 2 work on planttaion

OG

• reudction of hotel patilcuiter

• assymetrical 2 sill plan

• karge room - chamber —→ s room _ rev gallry

• logia _ cabinet surroudns

front - roof extend over gallery + loggia

• later loggia = cover by roof + steel

Coincoin-Prudhomme Home (Maison de Marie-Thérèse), Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1788-1794, 1828-1847

label

chiswick house, lord burlington (richard boyle), london, 1725-1729CE

chiswick house, lord burlington (richard boyle), london, 1725-1729CE

• english class

• - vitruvius - angelo palladiasm

• supermacy of __

• promote natrual prop, facade + plan = unified, ext ornament close 2 palladio work

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