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Author | : Barbara J. Howe |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780761989295 |
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This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.
Author | : Robert Schweitzer |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
ISBN | : 0814320066 |
Download America's Favorite Homes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, prefabricated and catalogue homes grew in popularity and number. Built and occupied by farmers, merchants, the new armies of factory workers and other lower- and middle-class families, these are the modest homes that today line American streets. Using mail-order house catalogues from the time, Robert Schweitzer and Michael W. R. Davis chart the development of catalogue houses and their variations and include floor plans for many models. Students of architecture, whether amateur of professional, preservationists and academics will find in America's Favorite Homes a handy reference to those homes that soon will be eligible for historic designation.
Author | : Henry Cisneros |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0292737920 |
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Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people over sixty-five, finding solutions for successful aging is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In Independent for Life, Henry Cisneros and a team of experts on aging, architecture, construction, health, finance, and politics assess the current state of housing and present new possibilities that realistically address the interrelated issues of housing, communities, services, and financial concerns.--[book cover].
Author | : William T. Baker |
Publisher | : Images Publishing |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1864704837 |
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IMAGES' third monograph on the outstanding new classicist, William T. Baker.
Author | : Ryan Ridge |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0472052586 |
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An eccentric, otherworldly guide to the domestic spaces Americans inhabit
Author | : Ernest Wood |
Publisher | : Smithmark Publishers |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780831744762 |
Download Historic Homes of America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of photographs illustrating the exteriors and interiors of a collection of homes that express America's architectural heritage.
Author | : Roderic H. Blackburn |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Download Dutch Colonial Homes in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
Author | : Linda E. Smeins |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780761989639 |
Download Building an American Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.
Author | : Martha Joanna Lamb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lester Walker |
Publisher | : Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03-10 |
Genre | : 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.