Building environments.1572334401 Building environments. Ed. by Kenneth A. Breisch and Alison K. Hoagland. University of Tennessee Press The University of Tennessee Press (or UT Press), founded in 1940, is a university press that is part of the University of Tennessee. External link
2005 299 pages $32.00 Paperback Perspectives in vernacular architecture vernacular architecture Common domestic architecture of a region, usually far simpler than what the technology of the time is capable of maintaining. In highly industrialized countries such as the U.S. ; 10 NA705 A Japanese-style lunch room of an American hotel features diner-style seats. Elaborate wayside shrines dotting Lithuania provide a window into faith. Windows in slave quarters reflect the severest of political economies. How did the occupants feel about these sites and buildings? What are the symbolic implications? In this collection of 17 essays chosen from conventions of the Vernacular Architecture Forum The Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) is a scholarly organization founded in 1980 to support the study and preservation of all aspects of vernacular architecture and landscapes. , contributors describe the houses of New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. , including the stories of small urban houses of the North Shore from 1630-1830, built-in gender and class, the double house, and housing for workers. They show how buildings relate to their social contexts, describing a church in early Jamaica, barns in Maryland, residences on the Crow Indian Reservation, and early 1900s hotels, explain the history of methods of understanding buildings, and move beyond buildings to commercial fishing architecture, Northern Umiak u·mi·ak also oo·mi·ak n. A large open Inuit or Eskimo boat made of skins stretched on a wooden frame, usually propelled by paddles. [Inuit umiaq. shelter, and the snap of cereal places and the pop of crop art. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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