American shelter : an illustrated encyclopedia of the American home / Lester Walker ; preface by Charles Moore.

Main entry:

Walker, Les.

Title & Author:

American shelter : an illustrated encyclopedia of the American home / Lester Walker ; preface by Charles Moore.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

Description:

333 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-330) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The Indians: earth lodge, pueblo, pole and thatch, tipi, longhouse, wigwam, hogan, plank house -- The settlers: Spanish cottage, English cottage, medieval, log cabin, stone ender, Dutch colonial, cross house, Jacobean, garrison house, saltbox, German colonial, southern colonial, New England farmhouse, plantation colonial, Cape Cod, French colonial, Georgian, federal, Jeffersonian classicism, Adam, regency, Greek revival, Spanish colonial, Shaker, Egyptian revival, Monterey, shacks and shanties, early Gothic revival, cottage, carpenter gothic, steamboat gothic, Italian villa, Swiss cottage, Italianate, octagon, false front, Renaissance revival, stick, second empire, high Victorian gothic, Queen Anne, Eastlake, Richardsonian romanesque, Norman, shingle, baled hay and sod, chateauesque, Georgian revival, mission, Tudor, classic revival, craftsmen, Wrightian, bungalow, Bay region, prairie, pueblo revival, colonial revival, fantasy, Spanish colonial revival, period, international, art moderne, northwestern, rammed earth, quonset hut, mobile home, California ranch, prefabricated, high tech, roof architecture, A-frame, contractor modern, neocolonial, split level, converted train car, pole house, brutalism, free form, geodesic dome, modular, silo and yurt, floating house, new shingle, international revival, inflatable, passive solar, active solar, earth sheltered, post modern, deconstruction, neomodern, everyday and the ordinary, space -- Glossary.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0879515996
9780879515997
0879514825
9780879514822

Subject:

Walker, Les
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Vernacular architecture United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture vernaculaire États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
Vernacular architecture.
United States.

Form/genre:

Writings.
Encyclopedias.

Added entries:

Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-1993

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 200519
Call No.: NA7205.W34 1996
Status: Available

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