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

McAlester, Virginia Savage

ISBN 10: 0375710825 / ISBN 13: 9780375710827

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2015

Beschreibung

revised edition. 880 pages. 9.25x7.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0375710825
• ISBN-13: 9780375710827
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

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A guide for architecture aficionados explains how to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture, focusing on typical dwellings in everyday neighborhoods to place distinct styles and characteristics within historical frames. Original.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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VIRGINIA McALESTER, was educated at Radcliffe and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that historic groups across the country have used as a guide in creating their historic districts. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great American Suburbs.