Unresolved legibility in residential types / Clark Thenhaus ; edited by Ryan Roark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thenhaus, Clark, author.

Contributor:

Roark, Ryan, editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--United States.

Architecture, Domestic.

United States.

Physical Description:

219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, [2019]

Contents:

An introduction to unresolved legibility in residential types

Character & contradiction in cabin architecture

Context-amending & context-offending in the mountain house

Dramas of the Purlieu & Strange frontality in the farmhouse

Odd façades & social transformation in the Queen Anne house

Kit homes & the mathematics of the American foursquare

Receding façades & traditional cosmetics in the ranch house

Parenthetical & hyphenated symmetry in the federal-style house

Points, partitions, rooms & enfilades (or not) in the shotgun house

Party walls & other interiors in the row house

Mixed-up stacks & cut corners in mixed-use

Disciplinary whimsy & darlings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-219).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781943532391

1943532397

OCLC:

1127849132