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A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America's domestic architecture / Virginia Savage McAlester ; with drawings by Suzanne Patton Matty and photographs by Steve Clicque.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Second edition ; paperback editionDescription: xxv, 848 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0375710825
  • 9780375710827
Other title:
  • American houses
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Looking at American houses -- Folk houses -- Colonial houses (1600-1820) -- Romantic houses (1820-1880) -- Victorian houses (1860-1900) -- Eclectic houses (1880-1940) -- Modern houses (1900-present) -- Styled houses since 1935 -- Appendix.
Summary: Provides in-depth descriptions and illustrations of architectural styles and features of everyday domestic dwellings across the United States.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 728.0973 M114 Available 33111011238264
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture- in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.

This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

"The best-selling classic by Virginia and Lee McAlester now revised and expanded to include homes built after 1940 and a new section on how to 'read' a neighborhood."--cover.

"Revised and expanded from the original edition written by Virginia and Lee McAlester ; with drawings by Lauren Jarrett and model house drawings by Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz"--from title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 791-814) and index.

Looking at American houses -- Folk houses -- Colonial houses (1600-1820) -- Romantic houses (1820-1880) -- Victorian houses (1860-1900) -- Eclectic houses (1880-1940) -- Modern houses (1900-present) -- Styled houses since 1935 -- Appendix.

Provides in-depth descriptions and illustrations of architectural styles and features of everyday domestic dwellings across the United States.

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