Louis P Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5082995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis P Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis P |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 University of Virginia School of Architecture |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra
Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire
Art Follows Empire »
Introduction | Wendy Bellion Les essais suivants présentés dans cette étude collaborative sur l’art américain à ses débuts sont tirés d’une séance de travail qui a eu lieu lors de la conférence « London and the Americas, 1492-1812 ». Celle-ci avait été organisée par la Society of Early Americanists (SEA) à Kingston University, au Royaume-Uni, en juillet 2014. Pour cette table ronde intitulée « Art Follows Empire », j’avais invité tous les partici…
Art Follows Empire
Kingdom, in July 2014. For a roundtable entitled "Art Follows Empire," I invited participants to discuss an object of their choice. The caveat: speakers had to identify a single object that epitomized or problematized the nature of cultural relations between London and its American colonies. The challenge, in short, was to explore how things informed experiences of place -and vice versa -within the Atlantic geographies of the emerging British emp…
The Architectures of Black Identity
This article argues against the long-standing penchant to interpret the architecture of enslaved and free Africans in the Americas as evidence of West African cultural survivals. Conversely, this article reflects on the recent practice of repurposing amortized and discarded shipping containers to suggest that the earliest generation of free blacks in Jamaica similarly erected creative architectural responses to the intense pressures of colonialis…
Sensing the Sacred
American material culture scholarship has few compelling models for the study of religion. By focusing on identity, cultural authority, or strategies of social power—all worthy endeavors—the field seems fairly content to consider religion primarily through a Marxist‐informed social lens. Yet, religion is so much more. This essay offers an alternative by examining in four acts—Sacred Geometries, Symbolizing the Supernatural, Seeing “The Word,” and…
American Sanctuary
Studies of popular belief and sacred space in America
The Rediscovery of American Sacred Spaces
Book reviewed in this article: THE HERMENEUTICS OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE: EXPERIENCE, INTERPRETATION, COMPARISON (2 volumes) By Lindsay Jones TEMPLES OF GRACE: THE MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONNECTICUT'S CHURCHES, 1790–1840 By Gretchen Buggeln WHEN CHURCH BECAME THEATRE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVANGELICAL ARCHITECTURE AND WORSHIP IN THE NINETEENTH‐CENTURY AMERICA By Jeanne Kilde PRAYERS IN STONE: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES,…
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism
Exploring Everyday Landscapes
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Exploring Everyday Landscapes
Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism
The Rediscovery of American Sacred Spaces
Book reviewed in this article: THE HERMENEUTICS OF SACRED ARCHITECTURE: EXPERIENCE, INTERPRETATION, COMPARISON (2 volumes) By Lindsay Jones TEMPLES OF GRACE: THE MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONNECTICUT'S CHURCHES, 1790–1840 By Gretchen Buggeln WHEN CHURCH BECAME THEATRE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EVANGELICAL ARCHITECTURE AND WORSHIP IN THE NINETEENTH‐CENTURY AMERICA By Jeanne Kilde PRAYERS IN STONE: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES,…
American Sanctuary
Studies of popular belief and sacred space in America
Sensing the Sacred
American material culture scholarship has few compelling models for the study of religion. By focusing on identity, cultural authority, or strategies of social power—all worthy endeavors—the field seems fairly content to consider religion primarily through a Marxist‐informed social lens. Yet, religion is so much more. This essay offers an alternative by examining in four acts—Sacred Geometries, Symbolizing the Supernatural, Seeing “The Word,” and…
The Architectures of Black Identity
This article argues against the long-standing penchant to interpret the architecture of enslaved and free Africans in the Americas as evidence of West African cultural survivals. Conversely, this article reflects on the recent practice of repurposing amortized and discarded shipping containers to suggest that the earliest generation of free blacks in Jamaica similarly erected creative architectural responses to the intense pressures of colonialis…
Art Follows Empire »
Introduction | Wendy Bellion Les essais suivants présentés dans cette étude collaborative sur l’art américain à ses débuts sont tirés d’une séance de travail qui a eu lieu lors de la conférence « London and the Americas, 1492-1812 ». Celle-ci avait été organisée par la Society of Early Americanists (SEA) à Kingston University, au Royaume-Uni, en juillet 2014. Pour cette table ronde intitulée « Art Follows Empire », j’avais invité tous les partici…
Art Follows Empire
Kingdom, in July 2014. For a roundtable entitled "Art Follows Empire," I invited participants to discuss an object of their choice. The caveat: speakers had to identify a single object that epitomized or problematized the nature of cultural relations between London and its American colonies. The challenge, in short, was to explore how things informed experiences of place -and vice versa -within the Atlantic geographies of the emerging British emp…
Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire
The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra
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