Identifying American architecture : a pictorial guide to styles and terms, 1600-1945 / James J.-G. Blumenson ; foreword by Nikolaus Pevsner ; with photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey ; commentary on the photographs by David Harding Paine.

Main entry:

Blumenson, John J. G., 1942-

Title & Author:

Edition:

2d ed., rev. and enl.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1981.

Description:

viii, 118 pages : illustrations ; 15 x 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118) and index.
Foreword by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner -- Prefaces -- Styles -- Spanish Colonial -- Mission -- Pueblo -- Spanish Colonial Revival -- New England Colonial -- Southern Colonial -- French Colonial -- Dutch Colonial -- Georgian -- Federal -- Roman Classicism -- Colonial Revival -- Greek revival -- Egyptian Revival -- Gothic Revival -- Victorian Revival -- Italian Villa -- Italianate -- Renaissance Revival -- Second Renaissance Revival -- Romanesque Revival -- Victorian Romanesque -- Richardsonian Romanesque -- Octagon -- Chateau -- Second Empire -- Eastern Stick -- Western Stick -- Eastlake -- Shingle -- Queen Anne -- Sullivanesque -- Beaux-Arts Classicism -- Neo-Classicism -- Bungalow -- Prairie -- International -- Art Deco -- Art Moderne -- Index -- Pictorial Glossary -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits and Locations.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.

ISBN:

0393306100 (Norton)
9780393306101 (Norton)
0910050503 (pbk.)
9780910050500 (pbk.)
0393014282 (Norton)
9780393014280 (Norton)

Subject:

Architecture United States.
Architecture United States Terminology.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Terminologie.
Architecture
Arquitetura (Estados Unidos)
Architecture Styles États-Unis Guides.
United States
United States Buildings Architecture 1600-1945

Form/genre:

Dictionary
dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Terminology
Dictionnaires.

Added entries:

Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983, writer of foreword.
Paine, David Harding, writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 64285
Call No.: 6910 REF NA705.B55 1981; ID:85-B8634
Status: Available

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