An Architect, with a Love of History

Ranked #5,854 in Squidoo Community, #385,598 overall

MAJArch's Design Studio - Products for the Architect and History Buff

I am an architect who loves to travel and take photos of buildings and historically important sites and structures. A lot of my work will feature my photos. Architects will enjoy the clothing I create to promote the profession: its design ideas, theories, and famous architects. Architects need cool things, and I aim to design them for you!

Here's the link to my Zazzle Gallery. Head on over and look around. http://www.zazzle.com/MAJArch

Here is another store from Cafe Press: http://www.cafepress.com/majarch

You can visit me at my MySpace page as well!

LEED AP!

I am a LEED Accredited Professional, and I am working on my first silver certified school design.

Read more about LEED here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design

Architecture Photos

Flickr photos

Loading

Architect Stuff at my CafePress Store

Loading

Zazzle Design Store

Items for the architect, history buff, and the eco-conscious

Like what you see? Click the pictures and you can go buy it :)
Loading

Architects' Resources

Looking for Continuing Ed units required by the AIA? Each year you must earn a minimum of 18 Lu's to remain in good standing.

Visit Ron
Blank
today to take free courses.

Today's Building Spotlight...

...is on the Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson's Home

From 1819 to 1821, skilled carpenters and masons hired by Andrew Jackson built a Federal- style, two-story brick dwelling for Jackson and his family. At the same time, Jackson employed William Frost, an English gardener from Philadelphia, to design and layout a formal garden for Rachel. The 8- room mansion featured several outbuildings, including a smokehouse and kitchen. In the main stair hall, Rachel Jackson selected scenic wallpapers imported from France that depicted themes from Greek mythology. After brick production began for the mansion, Jackson had new brick slave dwellings built. In the 1820s, brick and log cabins for housing 95 African-American slaves, dotted the Hermitage landscape.

Andrew Jackson took office as seventh President of the United States in 1829. While Jackson was president, his son Andrew Jackson Jr. and Jackson's Nashville friends saw to Hermitage affairs. A series of overseers managed day- to-day operations. In 1831, while in Washington, President Jackson hired Nashville architect David Morrison to enlarge the mansion dramatically with flanking one-story wings, a two-story entrance portico with Doric columns, a small rear portico, and copper gutters. The east wing contained a library and farm office while a large dining room and pantry comprised the west wing. Jackson also paid Morrison to construct a Grecian "temple & monument" for Rachel Jackson, who had died in 1828. Craftsmen built the domed limestone tomb with a copper roof from 1831 to 1832.

After a chimney fire seriously damaged the mansion on October 13, 1834, President Jackson hired noted Nashville architects and master builders Joseph Reiff and William C. Hume to rebuild the mansion into a stately Greek Revival-style monument. Reiff and Hume completed the repairs in 1836. In 1837, Jackson retired from the U.S. presidency and returned to The Hermitage. Andrew Jackson died on June 8, 1845 and was laid to rest two days later under the tomb next to his wife Rachel. At the time of his death, 161 African-American slaves operated the cotton plantation and resided in dozens of slave cabins scattered about the 1,050-acre plantation.

(Taken from www.thehermitage.com)

United States Green Building Council

Find a USGBC
chapter
today to learn about LEED and get accredited.

"Architect" MP3's

It's amazing how many artists and songs there are that use the word "architect"!

New Featured Lenses

Loading

Good Architecture Reads

Loading

New Igo GREEN Tip of the Day

Amazon Spotlight

Travel down Route 15, the Old Carolina Road, from Gettysburg, PA to Monticello VA - 175 miles of more history than any road in America. Visit: The homes of six U.S. Presidents - Jefferson s Monticello, Madison s Montpelier, Monroe s Oak Hill and Ashlawn Highland, Zachary Taylor s home, and Eisenhower s Cottage. The home of General George Marshall where he wrote the Marshall Plan after World War II President Teddy Roosevelt s hunting cabin The largest collection of Civil War battlefields in the country Sites from Colonial times, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812 Sites from our Native American history: the Susquehannock and Iroquois tribes African American historical sites, including Underground Railroad Two World Heritage sites: Monticello and The Rotunda Numerous scenic rivers, roads, and landscapes 13 National Park units, and more. "Journey Through Hallowed Ground" explores the heritage, battlefields, scenery, and natural beauty of this historic Journey through Hallowed Ground. With descriptions of more than 100 sites along the 175 mile journey, the book contains a full-color map of the corridor, county-by-county guide to the sites, attractions and back roads; and Create Your Own Journey, 10-15 customized itineraries based on fun themes for families, romantic getaways, educational excursions, and countryside tourism.

Architecture books on eBay

"Build" your library

Loading

Design Critique

go easy on me!

  • manujarch Mar 13, 2009 @ 2:27 pm | delete
    Very nice photos.
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Feb 12, 2009 @ 6:52 pm | delete
    Welcome to The Totally Awesome Lenses Group.
    Lizzy

by

MAJArch

Hi everyone,
Design has always been in my blood: as a little kid, I used to make cities from Legos and blocks, drawing streets on the driveway and im...
more »

Feeling creative? Create a Lens!