A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)
Author: Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 881
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0375710825


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The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.


A Field Guide to American Houses
Language: en
Pages: 881
Authors: Virginia McAlester
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Knopf

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First edition (c1984) written by Virginia and Lee McAlester.
A Field Guide to American Houses
Language: en
Pages: 558
Authors: Virginia McAlester
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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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 acros
A Field Guide to Contemporary American Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Carole Rifkind
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Plume

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Leading urbanist Carole Rifkind takes readers on an illuminating tour through half a century of design in this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book. From
American Houses
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Gerald L. Foster
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-09 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only façades, this book includes fl
American House Styles
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: John Milnes Baker
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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