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

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At Poplar Forest, the ‘occasional retreat’ of his retirement from the American presidency,Footnote 2 Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Trist, 27 April 1806, MoHi. 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.

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1964Man and His Symbols 1979The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome 1974Palladio and English Palladianism 1989Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder 1978Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View

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