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Journal #4: 03-01-2010 Design Your Dream Home

Journal #4: 03-01-2010 Design Your Dream Home. Pretend that money is no object, and describe what your future home would be like if you could design it from the ground up. You can sketch it out too, if you like.

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Journal #4: 03-01-2010 Design Your Dream Home

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  1. Journal #4: 03-01-2010Design Your Dream Home • Pretend that money is no object, and describe what your future home would be like if you could design it from the ground up. • You can sketch it out too, if you like. • Some ideas: Where would your dream home be located? Would you have hidden rooms? A swimming pool? 30 closets?

  2. Thomas Jefferson: American Renaissance Man By Vanessa Molden Western High School

  3. Facts about Thomas Jefferson • Third President 1801-1809 • Born: April 13, 1743 in Virginia • Died: July 4, 1826 at Monticello in Virginia • Married to Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson • Drafted the Declaration of Independence • Founded and designed buildings for the University of Virginia

  4. Facts about Thomas Jefferson • Powerful advocate of liberty • Studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law • Excellent writer, not a good speaker • Wrote a bill establishing religious freedom • Minister to France, Sympathetic to the Revolution • Renaissance Man: Architect, Scientist, Writer

  5. Where Did Jefferson Find Inspiration? Designed By Jefferson NOT Designed By Jefferson Virginia State Capitol 1785-1792 MaisonCaree, 19-16 BC

  6. Where Did Jefferson Find Inspiration? NOT Designed By Jefferson Designed By Jefferson Monticello (in Virginia) Jefferson’s Home Villa Rotunda, 1566 Andrea Palladio

  7. Where Did Jefferson Find Inspiration? NOT Designed By Jefferson Designed By Jefferson Pantheon, 118-126 AD University of Virginia Rotunda

  8. Farmingtonin Louisville, KY(on Bardstown Road) Jefferson Also Designed… It was originally the home of the Speed family, friends of Abraam Lincoln. Lincoln lived there briefly while recovering from an illness.

  9. Characteristics of Jefferson’s Architecture Makes use of elements of Greek and Roman Architecture Called Greek Revival or Neoclassical • Columns • Domes • Rotundas • Pediments / Gables

  10. Use these images for the Open Response Question UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ROTUNDA PANTHEON

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