Common places : readings in American vernacular architecture / edited by Dell Upton, John Michael Vlach.

Title & Author:

Common places : readings in American vernacular architecture / edited by Dell Upton, John Michael Vlach.

Publication:

Description:

xxiv, 529 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-518) and index.
Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion / Fred B. Kniffen -- Acculturation in the Shenandoah Valley: Rhenish Houses of the Massachusetts Settlement / Edward A. Chappel -- The Shotgun House: An African Architectural Legacy / John Michael Vlatch -- The American Bungalow / Clay Lancaster -- Eighteenth-Century Field Patterns as Vernacular Art / Stewart G. McHenry -- The Central Courthouse Square in the American Country Seat / Edward T. Price -- Early Rhode Island Homes / Norman Morrison Isham and Albert F. Brown -- Building in Wood in the Eastern United States: A Time-Place Perspective / Fred B. Kniffen and Henry Glassie -- The Tools Used in Building Log Houses in Indiana / Warren E. Roberts -- The Dutch Barn in America: Survival of a Medieval Structural Frame / Theodore H.M. Prudon -- Inside the Massachusetts House / Abbot Lowell Cummings -- Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America / Kenneth L. Ames -- Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working-Class Homes, 1885-1915 / Lizabeth A. Cohen -- Alley Landscapes of Washington / James Borchert -- Domestic Architecture at the Clifts Plantation: The Social Context of Early Virginia Building / Fraser D. Neiman -- Vernacular Domestic Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Virginia / Dell Upton -- "Set Thine House in Order": The Domestication of the Yeomanry in Seventeenth-Century New England / Robert Blair St. George -- The Mansions of Alloways Creek / Alan Gowans -- Eighteenth-Century Cultural Process in Delaware Valley Folk Building / Henry Glassie -- Just Folks Designing: Vernacular Designers and the Generation of Form / Thomas Hubka -- Vernacular Building and Victorian Architecture: Midwestern American Farm Homes / Fred W. Peterson -- Jacob W. Holt: An American Builder / Catherine W. Bishir -- Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design / Barbara Rubin.

ISBN:

0820307491
9780820307497
0820307505 (pbk.)
9780820307503 (pbk.)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture United States.
Architecture vernaculaire Etats-Unis.
Etats-Unis Architecture vernaculaire.
Architecture vernaculaire États-Unis.
Vernacular architecture.
Hausbau
Aufsatzsammlung
Architecture vernaculaire Etats-Unis Recueils d'articles.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Upton, Dell.
Vlach, John Michael, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122393
Call No.: ID:86-B4894
Status: Available

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