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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 ; 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.
Fine Arts Library NA7205 .M35 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAlester, Virginia, 1943-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--United States--Guidebooks.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- United States--Guidebooks.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 848 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition/second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive guide to domestic architecture. Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States, this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials, with facts and frames of reference that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses around you.
- Contents:
- Looking at American houses
- Folk houses
- Colonial houses (1600-1820)
- Romantic houses (1820-1880)
- Victorian houses (1860-1900)
- Eclectic houses (1880-1940)
- English and Anglo-American period houses
- French period houses
- Mediterranean and Spanish period houses
- Modern houses (1900-present)
- Early modern
- Bankers modern
- Mainstream modern
- Styled houses since 1935.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400043590
- 140004359X
- OCLC:
- 842350851
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