A Field Guide To American Houses
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| Author | : Gerald L. Foster |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2004-03-09 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780547561523 |
American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only façades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant field marks of each style and help pinpoint the key elements that can identify a house even when it has been remodeled beyond recognition. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, and impeccably researched, American Houses is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of American residential architecture.
| Author | : Carole Rifkind |
| Publisher | : Plume |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
Leading urbanist Carole Rifkind takes readers on an illuminating tour through half a century of design in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book. From private homes and public housing to museums, religious and educational edifices, shopping centers, malls, and office buildings, the accessible text demonstrates the interplay between form and function, and how the uses of space, mass, materials, and ornament have evolved to produce the structures that surround us today. Rifkind also discusses the development of style and analyzes the contributions of more than two hundred architects, as well as the political and economic forces that influenced their work. Filled with over four hundred photographs and line drawings, A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture is an essential reference for both casual observers and serious scholars. Its in-depth exploration of the postwar intellectual, social, and artistic environment offers a unique perspective on our recent past and the forces that shape our modern landscape.
| Author | : John Milnes Baker |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780393323252 |
America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people. This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter.
| Author | : Patricia Brown Glenn |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2009-10-19 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0470593598 |
This book is a delightful guide to understanding and identifying architectural styles for kids and their parents Why do houses look the way they do? Why do dome have small windows, while others seem to be all glass? Why do some hug the landscape, while others are tall with very steep roofs? Why do dome people live in mansions, while others live in mobile houses? Can you imagine a house that looks like an elephant or a shoe? Children and adults will learn about the history of domestic architecture, the styles of the houses we live in, and the terms for the architectural elements that compose the buildings. Use the pictorial field guide to investigate your own house, then take it along on family outings to identify different architectural details. Under Every Roof features more than 60 houses from 30 states and the District of Columbia that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places; many of these are house museums that are open to the public. Kids need to understand the house they live in, so the book also includes a wide variety of regional styles and architectural types. The full-color, watercolor illustrations add a unique, gentle humor to the text.
| Author | : John J. G. Blumenson |
| Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780761991434 |
Have you ever been intrigued by a beautiful building and wondered when it was built? Identifying American Architecture provides the answer to such questions in a concise handbook perfect for preservationists, architects, students, and tourists alike. With 214 photographs, it allows readers to associate real buildings with architectural styles, elements, and orders. Identifying American Architecture was designed to be used--carried about and kept handy for frequent reference. Every photograph is keyed to an explanatory legend pointing out characteristic features of each building's style. Trade bookstores order from W.W. Norton, NY
| Author | : Dolores Hayden |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780393731255 |
A visual lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America. May well establish Ms. Hayden as the Roger Tory Peterson of Sprawl. --New York Times
| Author | : James C. Massey |
| Publisher | : Penguin Putnam |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Architecture, American |
| ISBN | : 9780140281125 |
This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style -- a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.
| Author | : William Morgan |
| Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2004-11-09 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780810949430 |
A tour of the approximately twenty styles of domestic architecture common to the United States identifies and defines each style--including Colonial, Craftsman, Modern, and Deco--providing historical summaries, sample photographs, and regional information. 20,000 first printing.
| Author | : Virginia McAlester |
| Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780394739694 |
The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.
| Author | : Marianne Cusato |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781402736285 |
Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right--to the eye and to the soul. She teaches us the language and grammar of classical architecture, revealing how balance, harmony, and detail all contribute to creating a home that will be loved rather than tolerated. And she takes us through the do’s and don’ts of every element of home design, from dormers to doorways to columns. Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings--clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying "avoid” and "use” versions of the same elements side by side.
