Description: 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. Author: Virginia Savage McAlester Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: 11/10/2015 Pages: 880 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 4.05lbs Size: Book and Mortar Record Store A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture -- Virginia Savage McAlester 30.65 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. Author: Virginia Savage McAlester Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: 11/10/2015 Pages: 880 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 4.05lbs Size: 9.10h x 6.80w x 1.70d ISBN: 9780375710827 About the Author VIRGINIA McALESTER, was educated at Radcliffe and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member and past president of Preservation Dallas and also of Friends of Fair Park, the support group for a National Historic Landmark. She serves as an advisor emeritus for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is the author of The Making of a Historic District: Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas, a 40-page booklet "how-to" published by the National Trust in 1975 that historic groups across the country have used as a guide in creating their historic districts. She is coauthor of The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas: Great American Suburbs.
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Label: Knopf
Artist: McAlester, Virginia Savage
Album: A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide
Book Title: Field Guide to American Houses (Revised) : The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
Number of Pages: 880 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Buildings / Residential, Regional, History / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 65.3 Oz
Author: Virginia Savage Mcalester
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
