Product Description: Book by Izenour, Steven

Describes the history and structure of forty-two types of American architecture, including airports, barns, banks, bridges, colleges, diners, gas stations, libraries, markets, schoolhouses, and zoos

Product Description: Here is a plea for proper architectural humanity and humility as well as a plan for accommodating the desires and values of ordinary people who are too often being dragged along on architectural ego trips and uplift programs. It is also realistic examination of the American vernacular environment-as-it-is and a reexamination of the goal of architecture and the role of the architect...read more