[PDF] House Styles In America eBook

Author : James C. Massey
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture, American
ISBN : 9780140281125

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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 : John Milnes Baker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393323252

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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 architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter.

Author : William Morgan
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780810949430

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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 : John J. G. Blumenson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780761991434

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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 : John Milnes Baker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393034219

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How and where did different architectural styles develop?

Author : Lester Walker
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781579129927

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American Homes is the classic work of American house architecture. From the Dutch colonial, to the New England Salt Box, to the 1950s prefab, this unrivaled reference and useful guide to 103 building styles pays homage to our country's housing heritage. American Homes opens the window onto the rich landscape of all the places we call home. Award-winning architect Lester Walker examines hundreds of styles of homes—more than any other survey of American domestic architecture—and helps us understand the history of each style, why it developed as it did, and the practical and historical reasons behind its shape, size, material, ornament, and plan. Hundreds of sequenced drawings illustrate the evolution of our most beloved housing styles, like the colonial English Cottage, which grows before our eyes from a simple square of posts and beams to a fully constructed home with hand-split cedar clapboards and an intricately thatched roof. There's also the Italianate, whose roof displays its intricate carved brackets and is topped with a cupola that serves to filter light to the interior of the home. Annotated floor plans offer insight into the structure of these homes, and with it, a good measure of inspiration. No wrought-iron railing, white stucco wall, or gingerbread gable goes neglected. Every idiosyncratic detail and decoration of each of these uniquely American designs is delicately drawn. American Homes is the perfect reference for enthusiasts of architecture, history, and American studies. It is also the ideal inspiration for anyone who lives in or dreams of living in a classic American home.

Author : James C. Massey
Publisher : Studio
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architectural styles
ISBN :

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"This is a book about American house styles, and they are discussed in twenty-one chapters and illustrated with over 200 color plates and line drawings." "Neither a comprehensive history of American residential architecture nor a compendium of America's "greatest" houses, this fascinating and useful book looks instead at broad trends in domestic building from the first days of European settlement on this continent through the Great Depression and beyond - from saltboxes to split-levels. There are certainly mansions to be found here, for they help to define certain styles. Yet the chief focus is not on grand houses but on typical ones - examples that capture the essence of the everyday rather than the extraordinary."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : Vernacular Architecture Studie
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781572339477

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"Hubka argues that even "vernacular architecture" scholars tend to embrace a model for understanding home forms that relies on iconic architects and theories about how ideas proceed downward from aesthetic ideals to home construction, even though this model fails to adequately characterize the vast majority actual homes that people live in, particularly in recent times after the widespread growth of suburban America. This controversial book proposes new ways to categorize houses"--

Author : Michael Gaughenbaugh
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471144083

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A fictional youngster takes the reader on a voyage of discovery as his family moves into a run-down Victorian house and he learns all about restoring houses and how home styles have developed over the past 400 years in America. Lavish illustrations help to tell this fascinating tale. An aunt's townhouse in Chicago and the homes of cousins in the south and in the country are some of the other architectural journeys in this book, which introduces children to a whole new vocabulary and way of looking at architecture in houses.

Author : Russell Versaci
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781561587926

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Through hundreds of inspiring photos and engaging text, the author describes what gives traditional homes their enduring appeal, and illustrates the creative work of builders who are forging the movement toward building new homes that capture old-home sensibility.