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Author: McAlester, Virginia Savage
ISBN: 9780375710827

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This seller has earned a 4.36 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.

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Readers widely regard A Field Guide to American Houses as a definitive, highly accessible reference for identifying and dating U.S. domestic architecture, praised for its breadth, clear line drawings, photographs, and historical framing. It’s valued by students, teachers, preservationists, travelers, and hobbyists alike, with even the McMansion section cited as entertaining. Common critiques note its heft and density, difficulty distinguishing closely related styles, emphasis on exteriors over interiors, black-and-white photos and layout quirks, and thinner coverage of some regions and post-1980 houses.

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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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Title A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture
Author Virginia Savage McAlester
Binding Paperback
Edition EXP REV
Pages 880
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
Publication date 2015-11-10
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
ISBN 9780375710827 / 0375710825
Weight 4.05 lbs (1.84 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6.8 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 17.27 x 4.32 cm)
Category Architecture
Library of Congress subjects United States, Architecture, Domestic - United States
Dewey Decimal Code 728.097

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.