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A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture

by Virginia Savage McAlester ยท 2015

ISBN: 0375710825 9780375710827

Category: Architecture / Buildings / Residential

Page count: 880

<b>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.</b> <br><br>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.