Both scholars and average readers will find much to enjoy in this volume. "The definitive guide to American housing styles." For lovers of historic homes, this is a rich trove of not just details, but reasons for them." Alexandra Wolfe, The Wall Street Journal "Chronicles the past 400 years of American styles, from wigwam to mobile to modern." "The go-to resource for architecture spotters."
"Once you've pored through Virginia McAlester's photo-packed bible of American home design, you'll be able to identify the saltboxes, Dutch colonials, and brownstones lining your own street, and you'll understand the historical significance of each one." Now in paperback- 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. The illustrated story of why our houses-great and humble and everything in between-look the way they do." Angela Serratore, The New York Times Magazine It’s alive, noisy-and demands our close attention.” That conversation, in which the most mundane elements of building design are cast as characters in the story of a city, turns the streetscape into something greater than the brick and limestone it’s made of. It’s also useful to those of us who study preservation professionally, to bring our insistence that buildings are just as alive as plants-and just as worthy of careful, affectionate attention-into the broader cultural conversation about urban spaces. McAlester’s book is excellent for the layperson who wants to wander about the neighborhood with a bit more authority, or perhaps for the homeowner who can’t decide what kind of windows might look best.
“The most authoritative dictionary of the language spoken by the built environment.
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