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Giveaway-A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised)

November 18, 2015 by Stefanie Girard

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Giveaway-A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture

Leave a comment in today’s post by November 27th, 2015 and you are in the running for this comprehensive book perfect for visually learning all the terminology of American architecture.

Open to U. S. residents only please.

Now in paperback: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses.

This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on “Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries”; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.

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Comments

  1. Marcia says

    November 18, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    This is cool! I love architecture.

  2. LeAnn says

    November 18, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Would love a copy of this book! Thanks for the chance!

  3. Karen Zehe says

    November 19, 2015 at 9:00 am

    Housing in this area is varied in age and style… would love a ‘field guide’ to help identify the era, and guide my sketching

  4. emmyjay says

    November 19, 2015 at 10:26 am

    I would love to have this book!

  5. cassews says

    November 19, 2015 at 11:38 am

    This is awesome .. Thanks for the chance to win !

  6. Margay says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:07 pm

    I’m fascinated by old houses and house styles and I’m a writer, so this would really come in handy for research.

  7. Susan Spiers says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    What an interesting giveaway!

  8. Claire D. says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    I love, love, love driving around and looking at houses. But I never know the proper terminology for anything.

  9. Mary Helene says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    I would gift this great book to my nephew.

  10. connie says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    I drive my husband nuts talking about houses as we pass by; now I can back up my yammering with pictures.

  11. Lynne Clark says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:52 pm

    I love looking at homes and building and blueprints. Would love to have this book to study.

  12. Anna says

    November 19, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Oh I’m so excited for this one! My hubby and I will soon look for homes and knowing the terms would be great.

  13. Jane S. says

    November 19, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    This looks like a wonderful book! Having all this information in one place would be great. Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂

  14. Donna Lamb says

    November 19, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    Love anything to do with old houses.

  15. Barb Lawson says

    November 19, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    I am extremely interested in Architecture of all homes. This is one exciting book.

  16. Ingrid says

    November 19, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    what a great book! Here in Vancouver we are struggling to save heritage houses from demolition for development. I’d love to be able to identify the styles of the houses.

  17. Martha Donley says

    November 19, 2015 at 10:21 pm

    I live in near a city that has some old neighborhoods and I have always wondered what the different styles of building were called.

  18. Michelle says

    November 20, 2015 at 3:17 am

    This looks awesome – if love to own this book!

  19. Brenda Ballard says

    November 21, 2015 at 10:42 pm

    Hurray for wonderful old designs! Thanks for a chance to see this book!

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