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Log House Architecture in the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Piedmont (8216 words) |
 | This paper therefore surveys architectural history research on log house construction methods and plans in the Virginia Piedmont and surrounding regions to ascertain whether the construction of this Loudoun Valley house can be associated with a particular ethnic group. |
| An extensive array of architectural history studies address the question of the sources of design and construction methods used in many forms of log house construction in the American colonial period. |
| Despite variations, the surviving buildings form a coherent group that is recognizably distinct from the contemporary house forms of the other ethnic groups in the region, and that is indicative of the separate nature of Germanic culture in eighteenth-century Virginia. |
| Architecture (764 words) |
| Architecture blends scientific knowledge and technological innovations with the humanistic sphere where they work and develop. |
| Those who intend to pursue this kind of study must be strongly motivated and must have a wide variety of interests regarding the beautiful, the practical and the useful in their technical humanistic and historical aspects. |
| In short, it is a Faculty in close contact with the territory involved in intensive research and complemented by some of the most interesting work of students, that can find publication of their theses in specialized journals as well as Departmental reviews. |
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