Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
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suggestion of the otherideal type of the Palladians and classicists, the rotonda: a building symmetrical inall directions about a central vertical axis, and preferably crowned by a dome.Its ultimate basis was the Roman circular temple, which Jefferson regarded as themodel of Spherical, as the… … Figure 120. Barrell house, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Plans. Charles Bulfinch, 1792 From drawings by Ogden Codman oped and executed by Palladio in the famous villa for Paolo Almerico near Vicenza(figures 115 and 132). A square mass with four porticos, about a circular, domi-cal hall lighted from…
