American Architecture: A History

by Leland M. Roth

Book Overview

American Architecture introduces the reader to the major developments that shaped the American-built environment from before the Europeans to the present, from the everyday vernacular to the high... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813336627
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Westview Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.8" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Classic text

I was amazed at how well this classic treatise on architecture has held up over more than 25 years. It's a thoroughly engaging history of architecture with something to please anyone interested in building and design.

Good Survey of American Architecture

Allthought not the best book ever written on American Architecture (Learning from Las Vegas, etc), it does provide a good overview of the evolution of architecture in America from the functionality of house forms in the early colonial times to asthetic forms of the 20th century. The book focuses on the regional influences which dictated the building forms of the early periods from materials to climate, which are often overlooked in broader surveys. Much has been written about the Segrams building in other books, but this book will give you a better understanding of why houses in the South are brick with external chimneys and New England houses are clapboard with internal chimneys.