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From the eighteenth-century single-room "mansions" of Delaware's Cypress Swamp district to the early twentieth-century suburban housing around Philadelphia and Wilmington, the architectural landscape of the mid-Atlantic region is both rich and varied. In this pioneering field guide to the region's historic vernacular architecture, Gabrielle Lanier and Bernard Herman describe the remarkably diverse building traditions that have overlapped and influenced one another for generations.
With more than 300 illustrations and photographs, Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic explores the character of pre-1940 domestic and agricultural buildings in the towns and rural landscapes of southern New Jersey, Delaware, and coastal Maryland and Virginia. Approaching their subject "archaeologically," the authors examine the "layers" of a structure's past to show how it has changed over time and to reveal telling details about its occupants and the community in which they lived. The book provides architectural information as well as a working methodology for anyone wanting to explore and learn from traditional architecture and landscapes.
The authors conclude that, as a vital cultural artifact, the distinctive architecture of the mid-Atlantic needs to be identified, recorded, and preserved. Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Nelson Michael
reviewed Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes on December 16, 2015
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes
This is a book for the general public'lots of illustrations and easy read for those unfamiliar with building preservation. 350 pages on colonial mansions, barns, muskrat-skinning sheds, etc. in this book about a "region of regions"'the Delaware Valley. Delaware-centric, as the two contributors worked their at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design (in collaboration with HABS), but it does include regional examples from NJ, PA, MD, and VA as well. This is not style-obsessed but instead focuses on change over time in looks and use (an archaeological approach): not looking for purity but dissecting alterations. It argues for the study of buildings to better understand people: "how they saw themselves, their neighbors, and their workday world in all its complexity'and how they projected that sense of self and society into the substance of their environment" (350).
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