American House Styles: A Concise Guide [Hardcover]

History is all around usso much so that it can behard to see it. John Milnes Bakers classic work, nowbeautifully updated, helps us to locate it in our veryhouses. Through brick and stucco, pediments andporticos, he literally brings history home to us.John Milnes Baker is a congenial companion, encyclopedicwithout being dull, discriminating but notdismissive. His affectionate survey of four centuriesof American houses and American aspirations is anaccessible guide to the world weve built and a goodset of principles for understanding whatever wellthink up next.