Author: Gottfried, Herbert (and) Jan Jennings
Title: American Vernacular: Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960
Description: New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 2009. Softcover. A glossy softcover book with the title in white down a brown spine. Pages: (6), 1-471. Profusely illustrated with black and white images. "In American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960, Herbert Gottfried and Jan Jennings provide a comprehensive examination of how this interplay between the national and the local led to the development of a uniquely modern and American vernacular architecture. Gottfried and Jennings cover both overarching themes and specific building types such as cottages, bungalows, ranch houses, multifamily buildings, commercial buildings, and churches. In considering national trends as well as specific construction plans, they show how buildings have evolved from basic, functional units into cohesive, standard designs. Schematic drawings simply and clearly illustrate key design elements, while photographs document vernacular architecture in the real world. Preservationists, architects, designers, and students will find American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors to be an invaluable source of inspiration as well as an essential guide for documentation of American venacular architecture, design, and construction from the end of the Civil War to 1960." Contents are as follows: Introduction -- Defining modern vernacular buildings -- Inside out -- Building the picture : trading on the imagery of production and design -- The cottage -- Aesthetic system : exterior -- Aesthetic system :interior -- Building type : gable roof cottage -- Building type : organic cottage -- Building type : hip roof and mansard roof cottage -- Building type : gambrel roof cottage -- Building type : bungalow -- Building type : ranch and split-level -- Building type : multifamily -- Building type : commercial -- Building type : church -- Support systems -- Elements. VG: Clean exlibrary copy. Sticker at the base of the spine. Stamp on inside front cover. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on back inside cover. Stamp on top text block.

Keywords: American Architecture ; American Vernacular Architecture ; ; Regional Architecture - American


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