Perspectives in vernacular architecture, III / edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Carter, Thomas, 1949- editor.

Herman, Bernard L., 1951-2024, editor.

Vernacular Architecture Forum (U.S.)

University of Missouri. Board of Curators, copyright holder.

Series:

Perspectives in vernacular architecture (Knoxville, Tenn.) ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular architecture--United States.

Vernacular architecture.

vernacular architecture.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press fpr tje , ©1989.

Summary:

Excerpt from introduction: "Much has changed since 1982 when the Vernacular Architecture Forum pushed into print a thick and homegrown-looking volume entitled Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture. The book contained a selection of papers and abstracts from the Forum's first two annual meetings and was a response, as editor Camille Wells noted, to the 'deepening interest and expanding focus' of vernacular architecture studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Perspectives, like the Vernacular Architecture Forum itself, argued forcefully for the inclusion of ordinary buildings in the study and preservation of American architecture and material culture."

Contents:

I. Methodological studies

1. Yuppies, bubbas, and the politics of culture / Catherine W. Bishir

2. Rethinking geographical approaches to the common house: the evidence from eighteenth-century Massachusetts / Michael Steinitz

II. Typological studies

3. House trailers: innovation and accommodation in vernacular housing / Allan D. Wallis

4. The half-house: influences in the creation of a new form / Charles E. Martin

5. "A new standard for living": the Lustron house, 1946-1950 / Tom Wolfe and Leonard Garfield

6. Housing the horseless carriage: America's early private garages / Leslie G. Goat

III. Material studies

7. Building in clay on the Central Plains / David Murphy

8. Skeleton of settlement: Ukrainian folk building in western North Dakota / Christopher Martin

9. The brick-cased log houses of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / Nancy Van Dolsen

10. Cheap, quick, and easy: the early history of rockfaced concrete block building / Pamela H. Simpson

IV. Social history studies

11. All roads lead to Winnemucca: local road systems and community material culture in nineteenth-century Nevada / Margaret Purser

12. Tradition and transformation: rural society and architectural change in nineteenth-century central Massachusetts / Myron Stachiw and Nora Pat Small

13. The dining room in early Virginia / Mark R. Wenger

14. Building for downtown living: the residential architecture of San Francisco's Tenderloin / Eric Sandweiss

V. Symbolic studies

15. Substance, style, and community: selected farmhouses from Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota / Fred W. Peterson

16. Yard shrines and sidewalk altars of New York's Italian-Americans / Joseph Sciorra

17. False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Wm. Heath

18. The structure of justice: the courthouses of colonial Virginia / Carl Lounsbury

Abstracts

Vernacular architecture forum conferences, 1985-1987

Notes on the contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

082620659X

9780826206596

OCLC:

20021213