Jane Griswold Radocchia

 

Architect / Geometer / Historian

 

 

 

Jane Griswold Radocchia

 

 

Architect - Geometer - Historian



 

 

Archive by Year

 

 

2023

 

Mpnday, November 20, 2023

The Practical Geometry of the Parson Barnard House: the Bents



Tuesday, November 7, 2023

The Practical Geometry of the Parson Barnard House



Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Teaching Practical Geometry



Wednesday, June 7, 2023

That daisy wheel you found? Please trace it for me.



Saturday, April 1, 2023

Serlio Studies a Roman Temple



Thursday, February 2, 2023

Practical Geometry at Mud University, Cambridge, NY, March 3-4



Thursday, January 19, 2023

A Lancaster Clock Case: its geometric design



Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Geometry in Construction = Practical Geometry




 

2022

 

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Virginia Folk Housing, Part 2 of an update



Tuesday, November 14, 2022

Virginia Folk Housing, Part 1 an update



Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Serlio's Lines



Monday, September 26, 2022

The Geometry of Ionic volutes



Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Baptist Church of Streetsboro, Ohio, Part 1



Wednesday, July 26, 2022

The Baptist Church of Streetsboro, Ohio, Part 2



Sunday, June 19, 2022

James Gibbs' Of Architecture, Draughts for a Menagery, Part 2 of 2



Thursday, April 21, 2022

 

The Parson Capen House, 1683, Topsfield, MA



Tuesday, April 19, 2022

 

The geometrical design of Harmondsworth Great Barn, Laurie Smith



Friday, April 1, 2022

 

Images from my talk on the Historic Practice of Practical Geometry , April 7, 2022



Wednesday, March 30, 2022

 

A Bibliography for my Traditional Building Conference presentation, April 7, 2022.



Friday, February 25,2022

 

James Gibbs' steeples




 

2021

 

Sunday, December 12, 2021

James Gibbs' Of Architecture, Draughts for a Menagery,
Part 1 of 2



Wednesday, November 17, 2021

The Old First Church Windows in the Lantern



Wednesday, November 16, 2021

Bibliography for Practical Geometry, aka Architectural Geometry


 

2020

 

Friday, November 13, 2020

ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY, A Rare Geometrical Record from Rural Devon, by Laurie Smith



 

2019

 

Sunday, December 29, 2019

Practical Geometry - Drawing a Square with a Compass, Part 1



 

2018

 

Sunday, December 29, 2018

Framing a Barn with Practical Geometry in 1791



 

2017

 

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The Tuckahoe Cabin Geometry



 

2016

 

Saturday, December 17, 2016

St Jerome Catholic Church, East Dorset, Vermont


Projects

 

Passing By

A column on vernacular architecture in the Bennington, Vermont area, published monthly in The Bennington Banner, from July 2013 to the present.

 

Sunday Drives

Archive of a bi-weekly newspaper column on vernacular architecture, written for the Lawrence, MA Eagle-Tribune, from 1988-1999. In 1994, the column received a Massachusetts Historic Preservation Award.

 

 

The Old First Church

Windows in the Lantern
What was the geometry?