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In making meaningful visual metaphors , the vernacular tradition has been
eclectic , taking the best of the past and using it in the present . To our way of
thinking , the industrialization of the vernacular tradition made it possible to
express our ...
In making meaningful visual metaphors , the vernacular tradition has been
eclectic , taking the best of the past and using it in the present . To our way of
thinking , the industrialization of the vernacular tradition made it possible to
express our ...
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In this sense such use is part of the picturesque tradition . To find river rock and
rubble applications , one looks in rural areas . Texture is very much at stake in
using these materials , but so is the placement of units . Most of the design in this
...
In this sense such use is part of the picturesque tradition . To find river rock and
rubble applications , one looks in rural areas . Texture is very much at stake in
using these materials , but so is the placement of units . Most of the design in this
...
Page 191
To carry the tradition forward , certain design elements were necessary : a
second - story overhang that invoked the eighteenth - century New England
house with an overhang and pendants . The house illustrated also carries wall
dormers that ...
To carry the tradition forward , certain design elements were necessary : a
second - story overhang that invoked the eighteenth - century New England
house with an overhang and pendants . The house illustrated also carries wall
dormers that ...
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| Title | American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated Glossary And History |
| Authors | Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0442227396, 9780442227395 |
| Length | 270 pages |
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