As Thomas Jefferson's last major contribution to
American public life, the University of
Virginia combined his deepest civic and personal passions: democracy, architecture, and the
dissemination of knowledge. Springing from concepts developed in his early years as a
politician and gentleman architect, Jefferson's design for the university, which he
called the "Academical Village," was a large, complicated composition based in the
rules and monuments of . . .
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