Brownell, Charles E.

The book, or catalogue, "The Making of Virginia Architecture", was published in 1992 and co-authored by Charles E. Brownell, Calder Loth, William M. S. Rasmussen, and Richard Guy Wilson. The genesis of the project occurred years earlier, when the authors concluded that Virginia's principal artistic achievement was architecture, and decided to write a catalogue that documented the range and variety of architecture in Virginia. The book was a companion to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts exhibition entitled The Making of Virginia Architecture: Drawings and Models, 1719-1990, which ran November 10, 1992 to January 3, 1993. The original VMFA exhibition name was alternatively referred to as "Architectural Drawing in Virginia" and "Virginia's Architectural Drawing" (VAD), and the exhibition was postponed in 1988 and 1990; hence references in the collection to these different names, abbreviations, and dates. For their publication, the authors were presented with the Architectural Exhibition Catalogue Award in 1993 by The Society of Architectural Historians "in recognition of its excellence, having been judged the outstanding catalogue of an architectural history exhibition published in 1992".