Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest: The mathematics of an ideal villa

• Autores: C. Allan Brown
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 10, Nº 2, 1990, págs. 117-139
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At Poplar Forest, the "occasional retreat" of his retirement from the American presidency, Thomas Jefferson envisioned a place of harmonious order expressed in architecture and landscape through pure geometry. The design was neoclassical in spirit, though its individual features reflected a variety of influences, especially that of Palladio. Characteristic of Jefferson's approach to design, the composition combined and adapted elements of several models.