Colonial American Architecture: A Design Resource for Contemporary Traditional Architecture: Part I
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Architectural historian Calder Loth returns with a two-part primer on colonial American architecture.
This is Part I of a two-part course. You can watch Part II here: • Colonial American Arch...
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About the Course:
For the past century and a half, America’s colonial-period buildings have inspired countless architectural designs. With numerous illustrations, this class will explain the rationale of many of the forms and details that give character to colonial works, both northern and southern. Emphasis will be placed on domestic architecture, demonstrating how their design features, when properly applied, can serve to enhance literate, if not creative, contemporary modern versions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Survey a variety of examples of colonial architecture.
2. Understand the forms and details of colonial works.
3. Compare northern and southern styles of colonial architecture.
4. Understand how to apply colonial styles to contemporary architecture.
Course Navigation and Review Questions:
As you watch the video, you can browse by subject using the course outline and timestamps below. As you progress through the video, you can follow along with optional (ungraded) review questions here to help assess your understanding of the material. Click here: www.classicist.org/colonial-a...
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Origins of Colonial Architecture; Framing
09:34 Siding
17:54 Roofs and Roofing Materials
32:44 Windows
Sponsors:
Thank You to our Lead Sponsor for Continuing Education, Uberto Construction
A Special Thanks to our Presenting Sponsor of Online Education: Douglas C. Wright Architects
Receive credit for this course:
Viewers may receive 2 AIA CES Learning Units|Elective and 2 credits towards the Certificate in Classical Architecture by watching this two-part video course and subsequently scoring at least 70% on a quiz that tests your understanding of the material. Please note that, as this is a two-part program, the quiz for this program is at the end of Part II, and the quiz will test material from both video segments.
About the Instructor:
Calder Loth is Senior Architectural Historian for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and a member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Advisory Council. He was the recipient of the 2010 ICAA Board of Directors Honor Award and the 2017 Virginia AIA Honor Award for significant contributions to the understanding of Virginia's built environment. He is the author of Congressional Resolution 259 honoring the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio, passed unanimously.
I can't believe this is free.
Sanjay
This is truly unique in all of youtube. Thank you. I'm planning to build a New England colonial and this answered so many of my questions.
Thank you Mr Loth. Very informative.
Some of the first american exports were shingles and clapboards. New England built so many homes in the early years that a whole industry was created around the need for manufactured building materials. It's not surprising that the buildings in english port towns look similar to colonial american buildings.
Thank you.
Wonderful information, and very well presented - Thank you! We bought a 1769 colonial and find this fascinating. They really got it right back then, and I hope more architects jump back on the classics - no more ugly houses please!
Please, more videos! You're such an amazing speaker and your voice is ridiculously calming! Could you do a video on the pocket neighborhood architecture in the near future?
The reason why old English houses protruded out on the upper level was because taxes were only payable on the ground floor space and not on the upper level. I live in the UK so feel I am eligible to comment. Hope this information is of help.
Great talk. Can't wait for part two.
What he refers to as “exposed framing” in the video is called “wattle and daub” in England
In the US we call wattle and daub infill wattle and daub as well, but he is referring to the structural elements, I think.
Great information. Thank you sir.👍👌💪💪
I am truly enjoying your videos. Thank you.
Wonderful, I learned a lot. Because I live on the West Coast, I’m not very familiar with true Colonial architecture, although we do have some Colonial Revival houses, like in the Sea Ranch development on the Northern California coast, near where I live. Except for a few very rare vernacular adobe buildings, the oldest homes in the West are Victorian, like mine. Adobe proved to be problematic here in earthquake country, as did all brick and stone masonry. Since the Napa earthquake of a few years ago, many have removed their brick chimneys, as this quake revealed that none of the earthquake-retrofit methods, to anchor the masonry into the wood structure, survived even this moderate quake. Someday, I want to remove mine, there was never a fireplace, only a wood/coal burning cookstove, removed long before I was born.
Very informative, indeed! Help for the HO scale modeler.
Terrific class
So interesting that siding goes back to the earliest days of settlements, I always kinda thought it was a more modern thing, I wonder its use in Europe.
Edit: I did not watch the whole video when commenting.
*JUST how much cheaper the "gambrel" roof was comparing to making a normal second floor and a normal roof?*
By the look of it, the latter would have been more beneficial/practical, even though, stylistically, more boring.
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The narrator sounds like he is from South Carolina.