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A Field Guide to American Houses
The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
Virginia Savage McAlester
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · November 10, 2015
Reading lane: Modern Architecture (to 1945)
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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Book Details
- Authors
- Virginia Savage McAlester
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- November 10, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Modern Architecture (to 1945) · Contemporary Architecture (1945-)
- Reading lane
- Modern Architecture (to 1945)
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Publisher Categories
Residential Architecture
History of Architecture
Regional Architecture
About This Book
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. 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 20t...
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