19th Century Lifeways: Books & Buildings 1450-1850: Architectural Influences in England & America

• Design & Architecture

Noted architect Curtis Estes explores how four centuries of architectural treatises and pattern books from Palladio’s “Four Books of Architecture” (1570) to Minard Lafever’s “The Modern Builder’s Guide” (1833) influenced many significant structures both public and private in England and America, constructed by formally trained architects as well as dilettantes.