Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building. He articulates the key principles of architectural analysis, and then, centering his argument in the United States, but drawing comparative examples from many locations in Europe and Asia, he shows how architecture can be a prime resource for the one who would write a democratic and comprehensive history.
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An alternative title for Glassie's book might well be "A Thoughtful Ramble Through Euro-American Cultural History Using Old Buildings as a Starting Point." Rewriting and revising the fifth chapter of his recent Material Culture, Glassie discusses the complex ways humans organize their lives by analyzing the houses they build. The emphasis is on rural building in Ireland, Turkey, and the Eastern United States, although homes in Japan, Sweden, and Bangladesh are presented as well. The photos and drawings by the author are exceptional in both artistic and technical quality. Despite the inclusive title, this is not a far-ranging guide or overview but an interesting tour of Glassie's mildly Marxian analysis of changes in peasant village structure and land ownership in the northern reaches of Europe and the subsequent effect those changes had on house styles in New England and the Middle Atlantic States.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This book works very well as an introduction to vernacular architecture. It does, indeed, offer a leisurely stroll through the scholarship on vernacular architecture by demonstrating ways to read buildings in relation to American history. The approach works very well as a way to train one's eye to look at buildings, and the focus provides good ways to connect the various elements of design to wider issues about social history and cultural change -- and continuity. It's also a beautiful book to read. I especially like the way that the photographs are integrated into the text. This type of layout takes a great deal of planning, and the illustrations really support and embellish the writing. There are numerous comparisons to show how American buildings are related to various styles in England, Ireland, Turkey, Bangladesh, and various and sundry places around the world. These comparisions are designed more to illuminate an understanding of American architectural forms and to show origins of various styles rather than to provide an in-depth understanding of global history. The overall method, however, can be applied to learning about buildings in any-place.
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BUILDINGS, LIKE POEMS and rituals, realize culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
openfield villages, enclosed landscape, saltbox house, separate farms, vernacular houses, folk architecture, symmetrical facade, vernacular architecture, second kitchen, permanent materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Greek Revival, United States, Ellen Cutler, Northern Ireland, New Mexico, New York, Saint Brannock, Civil War, Greene County, North America, Town Farm, Peter Flanagan, Queen Anne, The Yankee, Tommy Moore, Billy Price, Fred Kniffen, Long Island, Otsego County, Tommy Love New!
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BUILDINGS, LIKE POEMS and rituals, realize culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
openfield villages, enclosed landscape, saltbox house, separate farms, vernacular houses, folk architecture, symmetrical facade, vernacular architecture, second kitchen, permanent materials Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Greek Revival, United States, Ellen Cutler, Northern Ireland, New Mexico, New York, Saint Brannock, Civil War, Greene County, North America, Town Farm, Peter Flanagan, Queen Anne, The Yankee, Tommy Moore, Billy Price, Fred Kniffen, Long Island, Otsego County, Tommy Love New!
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- Architecture in the United States (Oxford History of Art) by Dell Upton on 4 pages
- In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The English Farmhouse and Cottage by Maurice Willmore Barley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Publications of the American Folklore Society) by Henry Glassie in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Inside Architecture by Vittorio Gregotti in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups that Built America (Building Watchers Series) by Dell Upton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (Creating the North American Landscape) by Gabrielle M. Lanier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change by Sally McMurry on page 7, page 219, and Back Matter
- Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (Creating the North American Landscape) by Ms. Gabrielle M. Lanier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) by John Michael Vlach in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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