A Field Guide to American Houses
The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · November 10, 2015
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.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in American domestic architecture
- Themes
- architecture, American history, domestic design
- Pacing
- Steady
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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.
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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.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in American domestic architecture
- Those seeking a comprehensive guide to house styles and construction
Where it sits
| Residential Architecture | 68% |
|---|---|
| Architecture Reference | 42% |
| Historic Preservation | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Residential Architecture
- History of Architecture
- Regional Architecture
- Authors
- Virginia Savage McAlester
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- November 10, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- architecture · American history · domestic design
- Reading lane
- Residential Architecture