A Field Guide to American Houses - Softcover

McAlester, Virginia; McAlester, Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394510321 ISBN 13: 9780394510323

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1984

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Book by McAlester Virginia Savage McAlester Lee

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This comprehensive portable guide to American domestic architecture covers the entire continental United States

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e lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture.

Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0394510321
• ISBN 13: 9780394510323
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544
• Zeichner: Jarrett Lauren