商品簡介
From a hodgepodge provincial city of brick buildings into an ordered array of white classical temples, Washington, D.C., was transformed by visionary planning and herculean implementation in response to the political and artistic movements of the early twentieth century. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts was created by Congress in 1910 to guide this transformation and has continued to advise on the capital citys design and other national symbols for a century. The impetus for this seven-member, presidentially appointed commission on design can be traced to the Senate Park Commission of 1901, whose grand plan focused on the Mall as the symbolic core of the capitaland the nationproposing that it be a formal, public space framed by neoclassical architecture to express the ideals of the American democracy.
作者簡介
Thomas Luebke has served as Secretary of the U. S. Commission of Fine Arts since 2005. He is an architect with over twenty years' experience in design, planning, and historic preservation in both public and private sectors and was the design leader in the development of the 2009 Monumental Core Framework Plan for Washington, D.C. He served previously as the executive director of the Mayors' Institute on City Design; as City Architect for Alexandria, Virginia; and as a designer for numerous award-winning projects in architectural practice. Mr. Luebke received a master in architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in 2010. He was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2011 and has served as president of the Washington Architectural Foundation Board, a non-profit organization of architects serving the Washington, D.C., community.
