Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic : Looking at Buildings and Landscapes Paperback / softback
by Gabrielle M. (Assistant Professor, James Madison University) Lanier, Bernard L. (University of North Carolina) Herman
Part of the Creating the North American Landscape series
Paperback / softback
Description
From the eighteenth-century single-room "mansions" of Delaware's Cypress Swamp district to the early twentieth-century suburban housing around Philadelphia and Wilmington, the architectural landscape of the mid-Atlantic region is both rich and varied.
In this pioneering field guide to the region's historic vernacular architecture, Gabrielle Lanier and Bernard Herman describe the remarkably diverse building traditions that have overlapped and influenced one another for generations.
With more than 300 illustrations and photographs, Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic explores the character of pre-1940 domestic and agricultural buildings in the towns and rural landscapes of southern New Jersey, Delaware, and coastal Maryland and Virginia.
Approaching their subject "archaeologically," the authors examine the "layers" of a structure's past to show how it has changed over time and to reveal telling details about its occupants and the community in which they lived.
The book provides architectural information as well as a working methodology for anyone wanting to explore and learn from traditional architecture and landscapes. The authors conclude that, as a vital cultural artifact, the distinctive architecture of the mid-Atlantic needs to be identified, recorded, and preserved. Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages, 344 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/1997
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- ISBN:9780801853258
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:424 pages, 344 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780801853258