Styles and Types of American Architecture: Social Function and Cultural Expression

Alan Gowans

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ISBN 10: 0064301753 ISBN 13: 9780064301756

Published by Routledge April 1993, 1993

Language: English

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Styles and Types of American Architecture: Social Function and Cultural Expression

Publisher

Routledge April 1993

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1993

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English

ISBN 10

0064301753

ISBN 13

9780064301756

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Trade Paperback

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Used - Very Good

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Discussing North American buildings, both formal and vernacular, this book relates them to time and place, defining and identifying central characteristics, explaining social function and cultural expression. It integrates interior design and social and cultural history from the 17th century to the present. Alan Gowans is the author of "The Comfortable House" and "Images of American Living".

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