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Unresolved legibility in residential types /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thenhaus, Clark (Author)
Other Authors:	Roark, Ryan (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[San Francisco] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of ORO Editions, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Architecture, Domestic > United States. Architecture, Domestic.

Table of Contents:

An introduction to unresolved legibility in residential types
Character & contradiction in cabin architecture
Context-amending & context-offending in the mountain house
Dramas of the Purlieu & Strange frontality in the farmhouse
Odd façades & social transformation in the Queen Anne house
Kit homes & the mathematics of the American foursquare
Receding façades & traditional cosmetics in the ranch house
Parenthetical & hyphenated symmetry in the federal-style house
Points, partitions, rooms & enfilades (or not) in the shotgun house
Party walls & other interiors in the row house
Mixed-up stacks & cut corners in mixed-use
Disciplinary whimsy & darlings.