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An enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback,also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. Color photography and informative line drawings illustrate the explanations and provide a rich visual history of domestic architecturefrom the earliest surviving dwellings to the most avant-garde developments.

Houses

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    A Paperback / softback by Charles O'Brien

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 20 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9780300233421
      978-0300233421
      ISBN-10 0300233426
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      Art & Photography Architecture: residential

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book, now in paperback,also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. Color photography and informative line drawings illustrate the explanations and provide a rich visual history of domestic architecturefrom the earliest surviving dwellings to the most avant-garde developments.

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