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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine W Bishir |
ISBN: | 0807829595 9780807829592 080785624X 9780807856246 |
OCLC Number: | 61425759 |
Description: | 676 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | Catherine W. Bishir. |
Abstract:
Presents a range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. This portable edition analyzes construction and design techniques, and also locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts.
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"Comes closer than any work before it to being a model history of the architecture of an American state." - Thomas S. Hines, New York Times Book Review "The book is particularly important because it includes vernacular as well as high-style architecture, run-down as well as carefully maintained buildings, thus extending our vision of what architecture really is." - Historic Preservation Read more...
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