Identifying American Architecture Rev/Enl 2e: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 - Softcover

Blumenson, Jjg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393306100 ISBN 13: 9780393306101

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990

Synopsis

This book enables the reader to determine styles and identify architectural terms by comparing real buildings with the book's many photographs.

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Review

Blumenson has called out stylistic details and architectural terms in the book's 214 chronological photographs. This guide will help you identify (and write about) not only homes, but also banks, churches and other buildings that may have puncuated your ancestors' town.--Sharon DeBartolo Carmack "Family Tree Magazine, October 2003 "

Synopsis

This guide enables the reader to identify various styles and architectural terms by comparing real buildings with the book's photographs. Intended primarily for tourists and travellers, it covers a wide variety of styles including Spanish, colonial, prairie, Georgian and international. The book also explores details such as rooves, porches, windows and chimneys. In order to provide the reader with a compact handbook, the text is kept to a minimum and only the exteriors of buildings are discussed. The emphasis throughout is on domestic architecture rather than museums, monuments or commercial and public buildings.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393306100
• ISBN 13: 9780393306101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144