A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture - Couverture souple

McAlester, Virginia Savage

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0375710825 ISBN 13 : 9780375710827

Editeur : Knopf, 2015

Synopsis

Now in paperback: 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 propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

VIRGINIA McALESTER, was educated at Radcliffe and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that historic groups across the country have used as a guide in creating their historic districts. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great American Suburbs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375710825
• ISBN 13: 9780375710827
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 880
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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