Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989. Softcover. Tan paper wraps with photograph. 255 pages : illustrations, maps, plans. VG ex-lib copy. Library sticker on front and back cover. Library card holder on inside back cover. Cover has slight corner damage. Item #184240
ISBN: 9780826206596
Contents: I. Methodological studies -- 1. Yuppies, bubbas, and the politics of culture / Catherine W. Bishir -- 2. Rethinking geographical approaches to the common house: the evidence from eighteenth-century Massachusetts / Michael Steinitz -- II. Typological studies -- 3. House trailers: innovation and accommodation in vernacular housing / Allan D. Wallis -- 4. The half-house: influences in the creation of a new form / Charles E. Martin -- 5. "A new standard for living": the Lustron house, 1946-1950 / Tom Wolfe and Leonard Garfield -- 6. Housing the horseless carriage: America's early private garages / Leslie G. Goat -- III. Material studies -- 7. Building in clay on the Central Plains / David Murphy -- 8. Skeleton of settlement: Ukranian folk building in western North Dakota / Christopher Martin -- 9. The brick-cased log houses of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / Nancy Van Dolsen -- 10. Cheap, quick, and easy: the early history of rockfaced concrete block building / Pamela H. Simpson -- IV. Social history studies -- 11. All roads lead to Winnemucca: local road systems and community material culture in nineteenth-century Nevada / Margaret Purser -- 12. Tradition and transformation: rural society and architectural change in nineteenth-century central Massachusetts / Myron Stachiw and Nora Pat Small -- 13. The dining room in early Virgina / Mark R. Wenger -- 14. Building for downtown living: the residential architecture of San Francisco's Tenderloin / Eric Sandweiss -- V. Symbolic studies -- 15. Substance, style, and community: selected farmhouses from Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota / Fred W. Peterson -- 16. Yard shrines and sidewalk altars of New York's Italian-Americans / Joseph Sciorra -- 17. False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Wm. Heath -- 18. The structure of justice: the courthouses of colonial Virginia / Carl Lounsbury -- Abstracts -- Vernacular architecture forum conferences, 1985-1987 -- Notes on the contributors -- Index.
OCLC: 20021213
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