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An advocate of the Picturesque style, Davis sought to harmonize his country house designs with the surrounding landscape. Beginning in 1839, he collaborated with landscape gardener A.J. Downing on publications such as The Architecture of Country Houses and The Horticulturist, where they popularized the Picturesque style in landscape and ...
Alexander Jackson Davis, or A. J. Davis, was an American architect, known particularly for his association with the Gothic Revival style.
23 de may. de 2018 · Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) was a leading figure of the 19th-century Gothic revival in American architecture. Alexander Jackson Davis began as an apprentice architectural draftsman to Josiah Brady of New York in 1826, though his early painting ambitions remained evident in his lifelong picturesque approach to architectural design.
Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect, designed a number of buildings in North Carolina between the 1830s and the Civil War, thus bringing the state into the mainstream of Romantic architecture in America. His work for the state began in the first part of his career when he was a young partner in the prestigious New York architectural ...
Alexander Jackson Davis (American, New York 1803–1892 West Orange, New Jersey) 1838–39 The Patent Office, Washington D. C., third project (plan and elevation)
The Original Design. William Paulding, who first hires Alexander Jackson Davis to design Lyndhurst, is a former general of the War of 1812, a former New York City mayor, and has married into a branch of one of the five wealthiest families in New York City. His villa is supposed to serve as a comfortable place for his retirement.
Alexander Jackson Davis (American, New York 1803–1892 West Orange, New Jersey) 1838–39 The Patent Office, Washington D. C., third project (plan and elevation)
