A Field Guide to American Houses

Download or Read eBook A Field Guide to American Houses PDF written by Virginia Savage McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Field Guide to American Houses
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Publisher : Knopf
Total Pages : 881
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ISBN-10 : 9780385353878
ISBN-13 : 0385353871
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Book Synopsis A Field Guide to American Houses by : Virginia Savage McAlester

Book excerpt: 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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