A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

McAlester, Virginia Savage

ISBN 10: 0375710825 / ISBN 13: 9780375710827

Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2015

About this Item

revised edition. 880 pages. 9.25x7.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # xi0375710825

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375710825
• ISBN 13: 9780375710827
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.84 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.