Perspectives in vernacular architecture

Author(s)

• Wells, Camille
• Carter, Thomas
• Herman, Bernard L.
• Vernacular Architecture Forum (U.S.)

Bibliographic Information

Perspectives in vernacular architecture

edited by Camille Wells

University of Missouri Press, c1982-

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Note

Discription based on [Vol.] 2

[Vol.] 2: edited by Camille Wells

V. 2 published in 1986.

[Vol.] 3-4: edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of essays, the fourth volume in the "Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture" series, represents some of the best and most recent scholarly work in the field. Continuing in the tradition of the first three volumes, it explores the images and meanings of American architecture at its most human level, the level of everyday life. Drawing on interdisciplinary sources, the authors offer insights into the social and cultural contexts of the buildings, as well as the lives of the people who built and use them.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Buildings and Builders: Carpentry in Northfield, Massachusetts - The Domestic Architecture of Calvin Stearns and Sons, 1799-1856, J.Ritchie Garrison
• Samuel Wilson's Working World - Builders and Buildings in Chester Country Pennsylvania, 1780-1827, Gabrielle Lanier
• The Social Context of 18th-Century West New Jersey Brick Artistry, Michael J. Chiarappa
• Good and Sufficient Language for Building, Catherine W. Bishir
• Explicit Rules, Implicit Rules and Formal Variation in Vernacular Building, Howard Davis
• Exploring the Role of Women in the Creation of Vernacular Architecture, Rebecca Sample Bernstein and Carolyn Torma. Part 2 Buildings and Regions: The Evolution of a Vernacular Tradition, Jay Edwards
• Pitched Roofs over Flat - The Emergence of a New Building Tradition in Hispanic New Mexico, Chris Wilson
• The Cycle of Transformation in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, Houses, Charles Bergengren
• Slave Villages in the Danish West Indies - Changes of the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries, William Chapman
• African Virginians and the Vernacular Building Tradition in Richmond City, 1790-1860, Gregg D. Kimball
• A Legacy of Coal - The Coal Company Towns of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Margaret M. Mulrooney
• Charterville and the Landscape of Social Reform, Annmarie Adams
• Graeme Park and the Three-cell Plan - A Lost Type in Colonial Architecture, Mark Reinberger
• Grand Illusions - Decorative Interior Painting in North Carolina, Laura Phillips
• Domestic Architecture in Hispanic California - The Monterey Style Reconsidered, Mark L. Brack. Part 3 Buildings and Popular Culture: A History of American Beds and Bedrooms, Elizabeth Collins Cromley
• Getting the Houses to the People - Edward Bok, "The Ladies' Home Journal", and the Ideal House, Leland M. Roth
• Toward a Performance Theory of the Suburban Ideal, 1877-1917, Mary Corbin Sies.

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Details

• NCID: BA13098883
• ISBN:
  • 082620631X
  • 082620628X
  • 082620659X
  • 0826207928
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbia
• Pages/Volumes: 4 v.
• Size: 26 cm