A FIELD GUIDE TO AMERICAN HOUSES VIRGINIA SAVAGE MCALESTER
The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
About A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)
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.
Table Of Contents
How to Use This Book
Preface
Pictorial Key and Glossary
LOOKING AT AMERICAN HOUSES
Style: The Fashions of American Houses
Form: The Shapes of American Houses
Structure: The Anatomy of American Houses
Neighborhoods: The Groupings of American Houses
FOLK HOUSES
Native American
Pre-Railroad
National
Manufactured
COLONIAL HOUSES (1600–1820)
Postmedieval English
Dutch Colonial
French Colonial
Spanish Colonial
Georgian
Federal
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)
English and Anglo-American Period Houses
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor
FRENCH PERIOD HOUSES
Chateauesque
Beaux Arts
French Eclectic
MEDITERRANEAN AND SPANISH PERIOD HOUSES
Italian Renaissance
Mission
Spanish Revival
Monterey
Pueblo Revival
MODERN HOUSES (1900–present)
Early Modern
Prairie
Craftsman
Modernistic
BANKERS MODERN
Minimal Traditional
Ranch
Split-Level
MAINSTREAM MODERN
International
Contemporary
Shed
Other 20th-Century Modern
21st-Century Modern
STYLED HOUSES SINCE 1935
Mansard
Styled Ranch
Millennium Mansion
New Traditional
American Vernacular
APPENDIX
Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Notes
For Further Reference
Acknowledgments
About the Illustrations
Photo Credits
Index
About Virginia Savage McAlester
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
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