For the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups and for all who want to know more about their community -- here, at last, is a book that makes it both easy and pleasurable to identify the various styles and periods of American domestic architecture.
Concentrating not on rare landmarks but on typical dwellings in ordinary neighborhoods all across the United States -- houses built over the past three hundred years and lived in by Americans of every social and economic background -- the book provides you with the facts (and frame of reference) that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses you constantly see around you. It tells you -- and shows you in more than 1,200 illustrations -- what you need to know in order to be able to recognize the several distinct architectural styles and to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice mean? Or that porch? That door? When was this house built? What does its style say about the people who built it? You'll find the answers to such questions here.
This is how the book works: Each of thirty-nine chapters focuses on a particular style (and its variants). Each begins with a large schematic drawing that highlights the style's most important identifying features. Additional drawings and photographs depict the most common shapes and the principal subtypes, allowing you to see at a glance a wide range of examples of each style. Still more drawings offer close-up views of typical small details -- windows, doors, cornices, etc. -- that might be difficult to see in full-house pictures. The accompanying text is rich in information about each style -- describing in detail its identifying features, telling you where (and in what quantity) you're likely to find examples of it, discussing all of its notable variants, and revealing its origin and tracing its history.
In the book's introductory chapters you'll find invaluable general discussions of house-building materials and techniques ("Structure"), house shapes ("Form"), and the many traditions of architectural fashion ("Style") that have influenced American house design through the past three centuries. A pictorial key and glossary help lead you from simple, easily recognized architectural features -- the presence of a tile roof, for example -- to the styles in which that feature is likely to be found.
0 有用 芝麻馕 2023-12-08 11:56:34 美国
感谢图书馆!感想:1 美国不愧是欧洲移民来的土地 2 房子潮流是个圈
0 有用 午夜禁言时分 2022-12-09 16:50:06 美国
这pdf有两千多页,快要倒下了。好多好看的房子和不好看的房子。前面的文字介绍有很丰富的历史细节。一开始的插图好抽象啊,看了半天分不清哪个是哪个,直到后面上真实建筑物照片才开始认清各种风格。倒是有点意外里面会有城市规划相关,还有施工顺序的历史,有趣。最喜欢的还是某些现代建筑,以及西班牙-地中海风格,房子还是得有生活气息,townhouse没车位/车库可不行。有些风格不中看不中用,尤其新古典主义,有种... 这pdf有两千多页,快要倒下了。好多好看的房子和不好看的房子。前面的文字介绍有很丰富的历史细节。一开始的插图好抽象啊,看了半天分不清哪个是哪个,直到后面上真实建筑物照片才开始认清各种风格。倒是有点意外里面会有城市规划相关,还有施工顺序的历史,有趣。最喜欢的还是某些现代建筑,以及西班牙-地中海风格,房子还是得有生活气息,townhouse没车位/车库可不行。有些风格不中看不中用,尤其新古典主义,有种越缺啥越要强调啥的感觉lol… (展开)
0 有用 DeerMoon 2018-01-07 12:51:37
实用类百科读物。读完后,基本上在美国见到的民居都知道是什么风格和大致建造年份
0 有用 西瓜>芝麻 2017-01-07 10:37:10
I appreciate the companion of photos and sketches. a very solid book
3 有用 沈涵 2019-06-28 23:17:39
终于找到这么一本书了 非著名建筑手册啊 翻了一下内容非常非常全面
0 有用 芝麻馕 2023-12-08 11:56:34 美国
感谢图书馆!感想:1 美国不愧是欧洲移民来的土地 2 房子潮流是个圈
0 有用 午夜禁言时分 2022-12-09 16:50:06 美国
这pdf有两千多页,快要倒下了。好多好看的房子和不好看的房子。前面的文字介绍有很丰富的历史细节。一开始的插图好抽象啊,看了半天分不清哪个是哪个,直到后面上真实建筑物照片才开始认清各种风格。倒是有点意外里面会有城市规划相关,还有施工顺序的历史,有趣。最喜欢的还是某些现代建筑,以及西班牙-地中海风格,房子还是得有生活气息,townhouse没车位/车库可不行。有些风格不中看不中用,尤其新古典主义,有种... 这pdf有两千多页,快要倒下了。好多好看的房子和不好看的房子。前面的文字介绍有很丰富的历史细节。一开始的插图好抽象啊,看了半天分不清哪个是哪个,直到后面上真实建筑物照片才开始认清各种风格。倒是有点意外里面会有城市规划相关,还有施工顺序的历史,有趣。最喜欢的还是某些现代建筑,以及西班牙-地中海风格,房子还是得有生活气息,townhouse没车位/车库可不行。有些风格不中看不中用,尤其新古典主义,有种越缺啥越要强调啥的感觉lol… (展开)
0 有用 yvtp 2020-02-03 08:12:49
配图非常详尽的美国建筑指南式工具书
3 有用 沈涵 2019-06-28 23:17:39
终于找到这么一本书了 非著名建筑手册啊 翻了一下内容非常非常全面
0 有用 DeerMoon 2018-01-07 12:51:37
实用类百科读物。读完后,基本上在美国见到的民居都知道是什么风格和大致建造年份