Main entry:

Glassie, Henry, 1941- author, photographer, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Vernacular architecture / Henry Glassie ; photographs, drawings, and design by the author.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Material Culture ; Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2000.

Description:

197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Series:

Material culture

Notes:
"Expanded revision of the fifth chapter of Henry Glassie's Material culture, published by the Indiana University Press in 1999"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vernacular architecture -- Materialization -- Architectural technology -- Social orders -- Composition -- Architectural decoration -- Complexity in architectural time -- Compositional levels -- Forms and causes -- History -- The American landscape -- An entry to history -- Comparison in Ireland -- The U.S. in the nineteenth century -- Pattern in time.

Summary:

"Based on 35 years of fieldwork, Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. Henry Glassie articulates the key principles of architectural analysis; then, centering his argument in the United States but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a prime resource for someone writing a democratic and comprehensive history."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0253337569 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780253337566 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0253213959 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253213952 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Vernacular architecture.
Vernacular architecture United States.
Architecture vernaculaire.
Architecture vernaculaire États-Unis.
vernacular architecture.
Volksarchitektur
United States.
USA.

Added entries:

Material culture (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213215
Call No.: NA208 .G5 2000
Status: Available