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Page vii
Preface THIS BOOK IS ABOUT DESIGN IN INDUSTRIAL VERnacular
architecture . As a handbook it describes and illustrates the compositional
elements and the design concepts that have underwritten much vernacular
building . The time ...
Preface THIS BOOK IS ABOUT DESIGN IN INDUSTRIAL VERnacular
architecture . As a handbook it describes and illustrates the compositional
elements and the design concepts that have underwritten much vernacular
building . The time ...
Page xii
As a form , gabled cottages have something in common with a folk vernacular
house , the so - called I - house , which has been adequately described by
cultural geographers and folklorists , and also with imported styles such as
houses in the ...
As a form , gabled cottages have something in common with a folk vernacular
house , the so - called I - house , which has been adequately described by
cultural geographers and folklorists , and also with imported styles such as
houses in the ...
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Seen in this way , the vernacular is not historicism for its own sake , nor is it
normative either , since it does not promise the good society . The vernacular is
present - oriented , contemporary ; it declares what the current state of civilization
has ...
Seen in this way , the vernacular is not historicism for its own sake , nor is it
normative either , since it does not promise the good society . The vernacular is
present - oriented , contemporary ; it declares what the current state of civilization
has ...
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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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