A Concise History of American Architecture (Icon Editions)

 

A Concise History of American Architecture (Icon Editions)
A Concise History of American Architecture (Icon Editions)
by Authors: Leland M. Roth
Released: 01 September, 1980
ISBN: 0064300862
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Sales Rank: 239,070
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Good Survey of American Architecture

Allthought not the best book ever written on American Architecture (Learning from Las Vegas, etc), it does provide a good overview of the evolution of architecture in America from the functionality of house forms in the early colonial times to asthetic forms of the 20th century. The book focuses on the regional influences which dictated the building forms of the early periods from materials to climate, which are often overlooked in broader surveys. Much has been written about the Segrams building in other books, but this book will give you a better understanding of why houses in the South are brick with external chimneys and New England houses are clapboard with internal chimneys.

 
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