Монтичелло и Виргинский университет в Шарлотсвилле / Monticello and The University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Сочетание построенных зданий и природы представляет собой превосходный пример неоклассицизма. Особняк Монтичелло и Виргинский университет отражают проект их архитектора, Томаса Джефферсона (1743-1826), находящегося под влиянием эпохи Просвещения, выражающегося в смешении функционализма и символизма

Inscribed :1987
Criteria:C (i) (iv) (vi)

Brief description:
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of The American Declaration of Independence and third president of The United States, was also a talented architect of neoclassical buildings. He designed Monticello (1769–1809), his plantation home, and his ideal ’academical village’ (1817–26), which is still The heart of The University of Virginia. Jefferson’s use of an architectural vocabulary based upon classical antiquity symbolizes both The aspirations of The new American republic as The inheritor of European tradition and The cultural experimentation that could be expected as The country matured.