A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

Virginia Savage McAlester (Author)

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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.

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.
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Publisher : Knopf; Expanded edition (November 10, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 880 pages
ISBN-10 : 0375710825
ISBN-13 : 978-0375710827
Item Weight : 3.45 pounds
Dimensions : 6.86 x 1.79 x 9.26 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #18,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1 in Regional Architecture
#2 in Architectural History
#7 in Residential Architecture
Customer Reviews: 4.8
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