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Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms : 1600-1945
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.973
EAN: 9780393306101
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 0393306100
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1990-02
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
Have you ever been intrigued by a beautiful building and wondered when it was built? Identifying American Architecture provides the answer to such questions in a concise handbook perfect for preservationists, architects, students, and tourists alike. With 214 photographs, it allows readers to associate real buildings with architectural styles, elements, and orders. Identifying American Architecture was designed to be used--carried about and kept handy for frequent reference. Every photograph is keyed to an explanatory legend pointing out characteristic features of each building's style. Trade bookstores order from W.W. Norton, NY
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Useful book
This book is set up in a way that is simple to flip through and pinpoint details on buildings.
Rating: - J. J. G. Blumenson - Identifying American Architecture
Excellent pictorial coverage of styles combined with clear definitions of criteria
Rating: - An Informative, Easy to Access Guide That's Helped Me Many Times
While other "field guides" to American architecture provide more details or bigger/better photos than this one, a key part of what makes 'Identifying American Architecture' so good is what it DOESN'T tell you. That is, it focuses on naming basic (and often not-so-basic) architectural elements in a broad range of styles for you, without the encyclopedic details of each style's history and genealogy, which can be researched elsewhere.
This pinpointed, in-the-moment approach is VERY ... Read More
Rating:  - Torn between two and three stars here...
Well, it's not the worst field guide I ever saw but as a previous reviewer said, it has some serious flaws. Most notably, I struggled to focus on the wee tiny numbers that identify the architectural characteristics.
Man, those are some small numbers. And sometimes they get so clustered together, you're not sure which number goes with which architectural feature.
The long, thin layout of the graphics works against this book, too. The pictures of houses just don't fit well ... Read More
Rating:  - The Worst Field Guide to American Domstic Architecture
I have been collecting field guides to American domestic archiecture for many years and beyond a doubt this is the very worst guide that I have come across. This guide has many strikes against it.
First, it is too short to give the reader any real understanding of the different styles of American domestic architecture. Many styles are ignored and the styles that are covered are done so superficially. As an example, the section on the International Style of architecture only has two ... Read More
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