
Title
- Norton/Library Of Congress Visual Sourcebooks In Architecture, Design, And Engineering
Attribution
John Michael VlachPublication Details
Book1st edW. W. Norton & Co2003Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA8230 .V6 2003 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
View record in LOLA catalogDescription
The first in the Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks series, Barns presents a broad, fresh, and newly informed visual analysis of one of America’s fundamental building types. Barns is the first comprehensive visual resource of its kind, an invaluable tool for architects, historians, students-and anyone who loves barns. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "Project of the Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering in the Library of Congress"–T.p. verso
- Computer optical disc in pocket of back cover titled: Images from Barns / by John Michael Vlach. [New York] : W.W. Norton & Co., c2003
- "The body of this book offers a treasury of images - photographs, many by noted photographers - as well as plans and elevations, with captions that furnish relevant information about each building and region: subject, location, date, creator(s) of the image, and Library of Congress call number. The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-quality, downloadable versions of all the illustrations. It offers a direct link to the Library’s online, searchable catalogs and image files, including the hundreds of thousands of high-resolution photographs, measured drawings, and data files in the Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, and other collections. A comprehensive and unique visual resource, Barns will be invaluable to students; teachers; researchers; historians of art, architecture, design, and technology; architects; engineers; designers of all kinds; and those who love barns."–BOOK JACKET
- System requirements for CD-ROM: Macintosh and Windows
Contents
- Introduction: Barns Across America
- 1. New England
- 2. Shaker Communities
- 3. The Mid-Atlantic
- 4. The Lowland South
- 5. The Upland South
- 6. The Midwest
- 7. The Southwest
- 8. The West
- 9. The Far West
ISBN
- 0393730867
- 0393105415
- 9780393730869
- 9780393105414
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