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A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

Autor Virginia Savage McAlester
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 noi 2015
Now in paperback: 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780375710827
ISBN-10: 0375710825
Pagini: 880
Ilustrații: 1600+ Illustrations and Maps
Dimensiuni: 170 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 1.84 kg
Editura: Knopf Publishing Group

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Cuprins

How to Use This Book
Preface
Pictorial Key and Glossary

LOOKING AT AMERICAN HOUSES
Style: The Fashions of American Houses
Form: The Shapes of American Houses
Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses
Neighborhoods: The Groupings of American Houses

FOLK HOUSES
Native American
Pre-Railroad
National
Manufactured

COLONIAL HOUSES (1600–1820)
Postmedieval English
Dutch Colonial
French Colonial
Spanish Colonial
Georgian
Federal
Early Classical Revival

ROMANTIC HOUSES (1820–1880)
Greek Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Exotic Revivals
Octagon

VICTORIAN HOUSES (1860–1900)
Second Empire
Stick
Queen Anne
Shingle
Richardsonian Romanesque
Folk Victorian

ECLECTIC HOUSES (1880–1940)

English and Anglo-American Period Houses
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor

French Period Houses
Chateauesque
Beaux Arts
French Eclectic

Mediterranean and Spanish Period Houses
Italian Renaissance
Mission
Spanish Revival
Monterey
Pueblo Revival

MODERN HOUSES (1900–present)

Early Modern
Prairie
Craftsman
Modernistic

Bankers Modern
Minimal Traditional
Ranch
Split-Level

Mainstream Modern
International
Contemporary
Shed
Other 20th-Century Modern
21st-Century Modern

STYLED HOUSES SINCE 1935
Mansard
Styled Ranch
Millennium Mansion
New Traditional
American Vernacular

APPENDIX
Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Notes
For Further Reference
Acknowledgments
About the Illustrations
Photo Credits
Index