A reference guide to barns and other rural structures, this book explains the difference between Dutch and Swedish barns, for example, and those designed for animals or crops. It details their peculiar construction methods and architectural styles, as well as pinpointing their geographic location.
"These are not barns of calendar art or sofa-size paintings, but the real, if increasingly scarce buildings of wood, hay, and animals. It will be scholarship of this value that helps preserve some of the remaining barns for our continued edification". -- Ohioana Quarterly
Lavishly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, 'To Build in a New Land' includes chapters on Ukrainian pioneer landscapes in western Canada, Cajun farmsteads in Louisiana, Czech settlements in South Dakota, Danish homes in Iowa and Minnesota, vernacular architecture of the German-Russian Mennonites of ...
This book is unique in the sense that it brings forth the nature and characteristics of 21st century Asian urbanization. It provides a basic framework, particularly as it relates to the patterns, characteristics and problems associated with urbanization. Urban structural models are discussed in relation to their applicability and non-applicability ...
Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of ...
An examination of how early immigrant communities (German, Welsh, Polish, Italian) changed the geographical shape of the city. Group identity was so strong that even a century after the first peoples began to arrive, different neighbourhoods, and even larger sections of the city, retained the imprint of the immigrants. It is also the story of ...
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