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NORTH AMERICA North America has a wonderful array of vernacular architecture, from the indigenous native forms to the imported European styles that have overlaid the landscape. I recently toured the Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde and was awed by their mastery of rockwork and understanding of many of the principles of sustainable architecture, as proposed at this website. We have much to learn from the way native cultures utilized local, natural materials and took advantage of solar heating and earth berming. |
Native American Architecture by Peter Nabokov, 1990. For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, igloo, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types. |
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Architecture of the Ancient Ones by Val Brinkerhoff, 2000. Every once in a great while a truly magnificent photographic journal appears. It is a visual feast, each page a magical photographic account of the mystery of a lost civilization. The power and beauty of the Ancient Ones and their structures, their homes, are laid forth in these pages.The written commentary is just enough to enhance the visual images. For those who love and are fascinated by these ancient cultures, this is a must. A feast for the eyes and the heart.
Ageless Adobe: History and Preservation in Southwestern Architecture by Jerome Iowa, 1985. This book provides practical details on methods of preservation and maintenance for old adobe buildings. The over 200 illustrations in the book along with directions on "how-to" will enable the do-it-yourself home owner as well as the professional architect or contractor to plan and carry out renovation. The author presents solutions to the problems of keeping an historic structure intact while repairing it and making it 20th century livable. The issue of energy conservation is discussed at length and the premise of the book is that historic integrity does not have to be sacrificed for energy efficiency. Rehabilitation is always preferable, usually possible and often more profitable than demolition.
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Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts and Crafts Home by Leslie Freudenheim, 2005. This new edition of the classic, Building with Nature: Roots of the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition, focuses on the beginnings (1865 and on) of the Bay Area shingle style and Arts & Crafts collaboration in California, and the origins of the trend toward building simple rustic homes in harmony with nature. Freudenheim explores how and why a small, influential group of Californians (including Joseph Worcester, Bernard Maybeck, Charles Keeler, William Keith, Charles Lummis, A. Page Brown, and others)--all of whom had come from the East or from England--were especially devoted to Ruskin and the Arts & Crafts style and how this combined with their dedication to California's natural beauty to create a unique architectural movement.
Cabin
Fever : Rustic Style Comes Home by Rachel Carley, 1998.
Featuring rustic interiors as well as North Woods architecture, Cabin
Fever visits more than two dozen charming retreats old and new, large
and small, in the mountains and along the water, from the wilds of New
York out to the wild, wild West. Author Rachel Carley explains where
our love for the rustic comes from and shows the amazingly varied guises
in which it appears today.
Built in Texas by Francis Edward Abernethy, 2000. A book of folk building in Texas, ranging across the state in word and photograph to explore the building of: settlers who tarried on the timbered lands of East Texas and built with the readily available pine logs in the traditions of their fathers; those in the Western Cross Timbers used oak; European migrants into Central Texas stacked rocks into houses in the fashions learned in the Old Country; West Texans of the Pecos, who had neither rocks nor logs to build with, mixed mud and grass, made adobe brick, and built in traditions borrowed from the Mexican-Indian population already settled there. |
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Cottages by the Sea, The Handmade Homes of Carmel, America's First Artist Community by Linda Leigh Paul, 2000. Carmel is home to many of America's most charming but rarely seen cottages. In Carmel's residential district-a very private, heavily wooded area surrounding the shops and tourist attractions of the town's often busy main street-there are no sidewalks or streetlights. The U.S. Postal Service does not offer mail delivery. Homes have no addresses; they are simply known by name. Here, it is not uncommon for tourists, so intrigued by the uniqueness of the local architecture, to climb the fences of private homes in order to get a closer look or snapshot of the house on the other side. Now, for the first time, 34 of these homes can be seen more advantageously, in more than 270 specially commissioned and archival exterior and interior photographs. |
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America's Architectural Roots : Ethnic Groups That Built America by Upton Dell, 1995. This is the first book to explore the ethnic derivations of American buildings with such a broad scope. The contributions of 22 groups are highlighted in this fascinating overview that provides an important new way of looking at the buildings that surround us. Groups covered include Native Americans, African-Americans, Belgians, Germans, Mexicans, the Irish and Japanese, among others.
Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings by Thomas Durant Visser, 1997. A recognized authority on historic barn preservation, Visser has combed the New England area for the representative barns and outbuildings featured in this collection. Two hundred of Visser's photographs accompany the text, which includes accounts from 18th- and 19th-century observers, describes key architectural characteristics, historic uses, and special features such as timbers and frames, sheathings, doors, and cupolas.
Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture by Dell Upton , John Michael Vlach, 1986. This collection of essays and articles is essential reading for anyone interested in America's architectural history. Classic articles on ways to examine architecture in relation to cultural geography are featured prominently in this volume. There are also important pieces of work that link architecture to the history of various ethnic groups, and I especially enjoyed articles that deal with contemporary forms of vernacular expression. This is an important book for anyone interested in the study of folklore, history, art history, and architecture. It could also be useful for practicing architects to read the essays for ideas to inspire their own designs.
The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture by Rachel Carley, 1997. Over 500 illustrations trace domestic architecture from indigenous dwellings of Native American groups to contemporary homes of the 1990s. Each of the 12 chapters begins with a brief narrative that summarizes a type, period, or style of architecture. Multiple interior and exterior views of representative buildings (including outbuildings) are well labeled. Features such as stairs, doors, windows, framing and wall construction, and brickwork are clearly illustrated. Insets with additional text illuminate many of the pictures. Students curious about the structures around them or seeking information for design or history classes, and apprentice carpenters will be well served, and rewarded, by this volume.
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Contemporary
Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration and Creativity
by Carol Herselle Krinsky, 1997. At no other time since the European
invasions have the Native nations been as determined to set their own
agendas for building or been as successful in reaching their architectural
goals. They now claim authority in planning what they need for modern
life--office buildings, schools, clinics, religious and community structures,
urban cultural centers, houses, and museums, even commercial buildings
and casinos. Those agendas often include strategies for making sure
that the buildings are culturally appropriate or focus on collective
decisions that embody community values brought from the past to the
present. In Contemporary Native American Architecture, Carol Herselle
Krinsky examines the historical and legal background of this movement
of cultural regeneration through the medium of architecture, and records
responses of Native American's to ever-changing cultural situations.
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Anasazi
Architecture and American Design
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Log
Cabins of Alaska: Photography and Stories
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Casa
California : Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente
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The
Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado
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The
Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico
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The
Sandstone Architecture of the Lake Superior Region
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Under
Live Oaks : The Last Great Houses of the Old South
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Early
Mexican Houses : A Book of Photographs and Measured Drawings
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Rural Architecture
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Classic Cracker: Florida's Wood-Frame Vernacular Architecture
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Historic homes in the United States have eclectic roots, and range from intricate ostentation to plain farm buildings.
Old barns have a nostalgic place in the hearts of many folks, hearkening back to bygone eras. |
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