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|  | Home > About Us > News > Press Releases > press releases 2001 > When Buildings Tell Stories: An Exhibit At Hopkins February 11, 2000 WHEN BUILDINGS TELL STORIES: AN EXHIBIT AT HOPKINS Learn the stories behind some of history's most interesting architecture in the exhibit "Palaces to Cottages: Additions to the Fowler Architectural Collection," on display from now until May in the Johns Hopkins University's Milton S. Eisenhower Library. The library is located on the university's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. The 13 books displayed in the library's M Level cases illustrate finished buildings, designs, theory and construction methods from the Renaissance to the early 19th century. Among the palaces featured are Pratolino, a Medici villa near Florence, and the Grotto of Versailles, a work of architectural fantasy employing Louis XIV's imagery of the Sun King. More modest buildings include the imaginative private house of the British architect Sir John Soane, and laborers' cottages designed by one of the principal architects of Bath. The "Sciagraphia" of Johann Schubler, published in 1736, explains some pre-industrial building practices, and a French book published fifty years later explores the psychological effects of space in design. Laurence Hall Fowler (1876-1971) the Baltimore architect who designed the War Memorial and the library at Evergreen House, donated his collection of the classic works of architecture to the University in 1945. A catalog was published in 1961, and Fowler left an endowment to add to the collection. The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the George Peabody Library. ### Johns Hopkins University news releases can be found on the World Wide Web at Headlines @ Hopkins | |||||||||||||
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