North Carolina Architecture (Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts) - Softcover

Bishir, Catherine W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080785624X ISBN 13: 9780807856246

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Synopsis

This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina.

Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.

About this title

Book Description:

"Comes closer than any work before it to being a model history of the architecture of an American state."--Thomas S. Hines, New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

"This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state."-- Salisbury Post

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 080785624X
• ISBN 13: 9780807856246
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680