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Barns

  • Barns
  • Title

    • Norton/Library Of Congress Visual Sourcebooks In Architecture, Design, And Engineering
  • Attribution

    John Michael Vlach
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, W. W. Norton & Co, 2003
  • Availability

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NA8230 .V6 2003  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    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)
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  • 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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