Entrée principale:

McAlester, Virginia, 1943-2020.

Titre et auteur:

A field guide to American houses / by Virginia and Lee McAlester ; with drawings by Lauren Jarrett, and model house drawings by Juan Rodriguez-Arnaiz.

Édition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©1984.

Description:

xv, 525 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Page facing the title page erroneously gives the publication date as 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-510), and index.
Looking at American houses ; Style : the fashions of American houses -- Form : the shapes of American houses -- Structure : the anatomy of America houses -- Pictorial key and glossary -- Folk houses ; Native American -- Pre-railroad -- National -- Colonial houses (1600-1820) ; Postmedieval English -- Dutch colonial -- French colonial -- Spanish colonial -- Georgian -- Adam -- Early classical revival -- Romantic houses (1820-1880) ; Greek revival -- Gothic revival -- Italianate -- Exotic revivals -- Octagon -- Victorian houses (1860-1900) ; Second empire -- Stick -- Queen Anne -- Shingle -- Richardsonian Romanesque -- Folk Victorian -- Eclectic houses (1880-1940) ; Anglo-American, English, and French period houses ; Colonial revival -- Neoclassical -- Tudor -- Chateauesque -- Beaux Arts -- French eclectic -- Mediterranean period houses ; Italian Renaissance -- Mission -- Spanish eclectic -- Monterey -- Pueblo revival -- Modern houses ; Prairie -- Craftsman -- Modernistic -- International -- American houses since 1940 ; Modern -- Neoeclectic -- Contemporary folk.
Also available online.

Résumé:

For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community, here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture. The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your travels across America, houses built for American families in city and countryside, from the 17th century to the present.

Ressources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Free eBook from the Internet Archive

ISBN:

0394739698 (pbk.)
9780394739694 (pbk.)
0394510321
9780394510323

Sujet:

Architecture, Domestic United States Guidebooks.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Guides.
Architecture, Domestic
Domestic architecture United States Guidebooks.
United States Guidebooks.
États-Unis Guides.
United States

Classification/genre:

Reference works
Guidebooks
Ouvrages de référence.

Vedettes secondaires:

McAlester, A. Lee (Arcie Lee), 1933-2016.
Jarrett, Lauren. illustrator.
Rodriguez-Arnaiz, Juan. illustrator.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 16172
Cote: ID:87-B16082
Statut: Disponible

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 16173
Cote: PO13094; ID:87-B16082
Statut: Disponible