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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

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A visual guide to American house styles

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A visual guide to American house styles

Virginia Savage McAlester’s reference guide focuses on identifying and understanding domestic architecture in the United States. This revised edition adds coverage of neighborhoods and expands its categories of house styles, pairing descriptions with photographs. It also includes an appendix on approaches to construction in the 20th and 21st centuries, an expanded bibliography, and new photographs and line drawings. At 880 pages, the book brings architectural styles, visual examples, and construction topics together in a substantial reference format.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People interested in identifying architectural styles in American houses
  • Homeowners, architecture students, or design enthusiasts seeking a visual reference
  • Readers researching residential architecture and construction approaches

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American domestic architectureHouse styles and identificationNeighborhoodsResidential constructionArchitectural reference

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Book overview

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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