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.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Second edition ; paperback editionDescription: xxv, 848 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0375710825
- 9780375710827
- American houses
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | New | 728.0973 M114 | Available | 33111011238264 |
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.