Description:American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only facades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant field marks of each style and help pinpoint the key elements that can identify a house even when it has been remodeled beyond recognition. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, and impeccably researched, American Houses is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of American residential architecture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home. To get started finding American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
416
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Mariner Books
Release
2004
ISBN
0547561520
American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home
Description: American Houses is a historical guide to the architecture of the American home. While other architectural field guides show only facades, this book includes floor plans, showing how the form of a house arises from its function. Photographs and drawings of exteriors illustrate the significant field marks of each style and help pinpoint the key elements that can identify a house even when it has been remodeled beyond recognition. Beautifully illustrated, clearly written, and impeccably researched, American Houses is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of American residential architecture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home. To get started finding American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of the Home, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.