Daniel Bluestone

Professor of American Architecture

Between Jefferson and Geology: Eugene Bradbury's Charlottesville Architecture, 1907-1925

April 2, 2004
Hopwood Auditorium
Lynchburg College
Lynchburg, Va

On the web

The University of Virginia serves over one million people every year through more than 400 public service and outreach programs. For more information about outreach at UVa, visit http://www.virginia.edu/outreachvirginia/, an interactive web-based listing of public service programs searchable by region, interest, audience, or type of program.
Some programs you can find in OutreachVirginia database include the following:

American Studies: The Capitol Project
The Capitol Project is an exploration of the National Capitol as an American icon -- the cathedral of our national faith, the map of our public memory, and the monument to our official culture.

Institute for Environmental Negotiation
The IEN was formed in 1980 by faculty from the School of Architecture's Department of Urban and Environmental Planning to provide mediation and consensus building services concerning the natural and built environments.

Plymouth Colony Archive Project
This Plymouth Colony Archive presents fully searchable 17th century texts, images, and research articles with ethnohistorical, anthropological and archaeological analysis.

The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson
A web-based resource with information on Jefferson's building projects including architectural drawings, photographs, primary and secondary literary materials, sources, bibliography, and three-dimensional models and simulations.

The Salisbury Project
This photographic and textual archive describes the history of the medieval cathedral and town of Salisbury, England and is an excellent resource for teachers, students, and scholars.

 

About the speaker

Mr. Bluestone is a specialist in nineteenth century American architecture and urbanism. His book Constructing Chicago (1991) was awarded the American Institute of Architects International Book Award and the National Historic Preservation book prize. In 1998 Mr. Bluestone was invited to participate in the Getty Conservation Institute's Agora project, a small international panel charged with formulating new approaches to cultural heritage preservation, education, and economics to complement international programs in material conservation. Mr. Bluestone has published important essays that survey the history and politics of historic preservation in the United States. Bluestone's essay "Academics in Tennis Shoes, Historic Preservation and the Academy" appeared in the special end of the century issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Mr. Bluestone teaches American architecture, the theory of historic preservation, and courses that survey the methods of site-specific architectural and landscape history and preservation. A highly regarded advocate of community preservation and public history, Mr. Bluestone has worked on numerous building and community preservation projects. During the 2001-2002 academic year, students in Mr. Bluestone's community history, planning and design workshop undertook a major preservation project on the site of the Blue Ridge Tuberculosis Sanatorium, opened in 1920 as Virginia's premier tuberculosis sanatorium. In an innovative architectural and landscape setting, designed by leading Virginia architects, patients followed a strict regimen of bed rest, fresh air, and good nutrition. Combating a deadly epidemic, patients and staff built a community of strength and perseverance. With the success of antibiotic treatments, the sanatorium closed in 1978. Currently Monticello has plans for a Gateway Campus and visitors center on part of the site. The UVA real estate foundation envisions the development of a research park. The community history workshop has developed a guidebook, a website, oral history accounts, an exhibition, a secondary school curriculum as well as proposals for adaptively re-using the site's historic buildings and landscape.

Mr. Bluestone directs the School's historic preservation program that offers courses encouraging both specialized work in a student's field of study and scrutiny of the general principles and ethics of historic preservation. The interdisciplinary program involves students and faculty from architectural history, architecture, landscape architecture and planning.