American Architecture Guide

American Architecture is a brief, selective bibliographic research guide to general resources on the architecture of the United States in the UC Berkeley libraries and on the web. For additional assistance, please consult the Environmental Design Library reference staff, 210 Wurster Hall.

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Compiled by Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne. Content reviewed: February 2009

Research Guides

A selection of related web and research guides that may be helpful in your research. For general research advice on architectural history see History of Architecture Methodology, or California specific assistance in San Francisco Bay Area Architecture Research Guides.

Art information: research methods and resources. Lois Swan Jones. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall / Hunt Pub. Co., 1990. Especially chap. 9 on architectural research and chap. 21, architectural resources.
EnvDesign N85.J64 1990 Reference
Building and landscape types: a guide to information sources. (UC Berkeley, Library). A guide to information sources.
Finding information on buildings and places. (UC Berkeley, Library). Focuses on how to research buildings and places with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area and California.
Historic preservation. (UC Berkeley, Library). A bibliographic research guide, including information on history, conservation and restoration of buildings, with an emphasis on the US and California.
History of architecture. (UC Berkeley, Library). A bibliographic guide to researching architectural history.
History of the U.S. cultural environment, (UC Berkeley, Library). A bibliographic research guide to the cultural history of American architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.
How to investigate the history of a building. (History Detectives, PBS). Clear guide to researching a building's history.
Invitation to vernacular architecture: a guide to the study of ordinary buildings and landscapes / Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2005. Vernacular architecture studies series. Table of contents
EnvDesign NA705.C38 2005
San Francisco Bay Area architects & architecture: resources. (UC Berkeley, Library). A bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley library and Internet resources for the architecture of the San Francisco Bay Area. Many of these sources include information on Bay Area landscape architecture.
A short guide to writing about art / Sylvan Barnet. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson, c2008.
EnvDesign N7476 .B37 2008 Reference and circulating
Art/Classics N7476.B37 2008 Room 308J - Reference
Vernacular architecture. (UC Berkeley, Library). A bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley library and Internet resources for research in vernacular architecture. Especially see the section on Methodology.
Writing about art. Marjorie Munsterberg. [New York]: c2009. Includes a step-by-step guide to researching art historical topics.
Art History/Classics N7467 M867 2009 Library Use Only

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Use these sources to define terms and get an overview. tip For additional resources search Library catalogs under Subject Keywords: Architecture--United States--Dictionaries, or Architecture--United States--Encyclopedias.

American architecture: an illustrated encyclopedia / Cyril M. Harris. New York: W.W. Norton, c1998.
EnvDesign NA705.H36 1998
American vernacular design, 1870-1940. Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988.
EnvDesign NA710.G681 1988
The anatomy of a house: a picture dictionary of architectural and design elements. Fayal Greene; NY: Doubleday, 1991. Clear, concise identification of the parts and elements of American houses.
EnvDesign NA2840.G74 1991
American vernacular design, 1870-1940. Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988.
EnvDesign NA710.G681 1988
A dictionary of architecture / James Stevens Curl. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Excellent for architectural terms.
EnvDesign NA31.C86 1999 Reference Desk
Dictionary of architecture. Henry H. Saylor. New York, Wiley [1952]. Classic, standard dictionary of terms.
EnvDesign NA31.S35 Reference desk & circulating
Encyclopedia of American architecture / Robert T. Packard, Balthazar Korab. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1995.
EnvDesign NA705.P3 1995 Reference
Grove art online (now Oxford art online) UC Only Encyclopedia with extensive coverage of architecture and excellent bibliographies. Browse the index or search. Links to images. Print equivalent (be sure to use index in last volume) is Dictionary of Art.
Print: EnvDesign, Doe Reference, Art/Classics N31.D5 1996 Reference
Old-house dictionary: an illustrated guide to American domestic architecture, 1600-1940 / written and illustrated by Steven J. Phillips. Lakewood, Colo. : American Source Books, c1989.
EnvDesign NA7205.P48 1989 Reference
Oxford reference online: Art and architecture UCB Only Access to six art or architecture dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. Search sources collectively or search within an individual title.
The visual dictionary of American domestic architecture. Rachel Carley. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1994.
EnvDesign NA7205.C27 1994 Reference Desk

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Bibliographies

A selective list of compilations of the best works on the subject. Use them to get a jump-start on your research. For additional resources search Library catalogs under: Subject: Architecture--United States--Bibliography; or Architecture--Bibliography.

American architects from the Civil War to the First World War, a guide to information sources / Lawrence Wodehouse. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1976. Gale information guide library, Art and architecture information guide series v. 3
EnvDesign, Art/Classics NA710.A12.W6 Reference
American architects from the First World War to the present, a guide to information sources / Lawrence Wodehouse. Detroit: Gale Research Co, c1977. Art and architecture information guide series; v. 4, Gale information guide library
EnvDesign NA712.A12.W63 Reference & circulating
American architectural books; a list of books, portfolios, and pamphlets on architecture and related subjects published in America before 1895. New expanded ed. New York : Da Capo Press, 1976. Da Capo Press series in architecture and decorative art. Includes chronological short-title list of Hitchcock's American architectural books, and list of architectural periodicals before 1895.
EnvDesign NA2500.A12.H5 1976 Reference and EnvDesign NA2500.A12.J5 Reference [index to the microfilm set]
EnvDesign MICROFILM.17741.NA [text of each publication in the bibliography]
American architecture and art a guide to information sources / edited by David M. Sokol. Detroit : Gale Research Co., [1976] American studies information guide series v. 2, Gale information guide series.
EnvDesign N6505.A12.S64 Reference, Main Stack
Architectural books in early America: architectural treatises and building handbooks available in American libraries and bookstores through 1800. Janice Gayle Schimmelman. 1st ed., 2nd print., rev. and expanded. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1999.
EnvDesign NA200.A12.S34 1999 Reference & circulating
Architecture: a bibliographic guide to basic reference works, histories, and handbooks / Donald L. Ehresmann. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, c1984. Arranged by time period. Good coverage of United States.
EnvDesign NA2520.A12.E38 1984 Reference desk
"Bibliographic essay," in American architecture and urbanism / Vincent Scully. New rev. ed. New York : H. Holt, 1988, p. 297-305.
EnvDesign, Moffitt NA705.S361 1988
Goode's bibliography: doctoral dissertations relating to American architectural history, 1897-1995 / James M. Goode. 2nd ed. Chicago: Distributed by Society of Architectural Historians, 1995.
EnvDesign NA705.A12.G6 1995 Reference
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record: an annotated bibliography / compiled by James C. Massey, Nancy B. Schwartz, Shirley Maxwell. [Washington, D.C.?] : Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Board, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1992. Covers publications 1933-91 issued by HABS/HAER, National Park Service or Government Publishing Office that document the architecture and buildings of American cities or states.
EnvDesign E159.A12.H57 1992 Reference
A Historical bibliography of commercial architecture in the United States. Compiled by Richard Longstreth, 2002; revised 23 May 2010. Society of Architectural Historians. [viewed 13 September 2010]
Houses from books: treatises, pattern books, and catalogs in American architecture, 1738-1950: a history and guide / Daniel D. Reiff. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2000.
EnvDesign NA7205.R435 2000
A list of architectural books available in America before the Revolution. Helen Park. New ed., rev. and enl., Los Angeles, Hennessey & Ingalls, 1973. Art & architecture bibliographies, 1.
EnvDesign NA200.A12.P3 Reference and EnvDesign NA2500.A12.J5 Reference [index to the microfilm set]
EnvDesign MICROFILM.17741 Suppl A, reels 1-14 [text of each publication in the bibliography]
Papers of the American Association of Architectural Bibliographers. NY [etc.] Garland Publishing [etc.], 1965-1979. Garland reference library of the humanities; v. 115-16. Excellent bibliographies on American architects and architecture.
EnvDesign NA8.A5 Reference 1(1965)-13(1979)// Cum Index: 1(1965)-10(1973)
"United States," in Guide to the literature of art history, chap. J, Architecture. Etta Arntzen, Robert Rainwater. Chicago: American Library Association, 1980. Covers publications from 1959-1977.
EnvDesign, Art/Classics, Doe Reference N380.A12.A67 Reference
"United States," in Guide to the literature of art history 2, chap. J, Architecture. Max Marmor, Alex Ross. Chicago : American Library Association, 2005. Covers publications from 1977-1998.
EnvDesign, Art/Classics, Doe Reference N380.A12.M3 2005 Reference

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Finding books

A few, selected examples of subject search terms to use in the Library catalogs. There are many, many more. Terms can all be modified by place names, e.g., Architecture California San Francisco Bay Area. You may also search the catalogs by the name of an architect or designer, either as an author or as subject. These terms may also be useful in periodical indexes.

Architecture, American
Architecture and Society--United States
Architecture, Colonial--United States
Architecture, Domestic--United States
Architecture, Postmodern--United States
Architecture--United States
Architecture, Victorian--United States
Buildings--United States
Dwellings--United States
Eclecticism in Architecture--United States
Gothic Revival Architecture--United States

Greek Revival Architecture--United States
Historic Buildings--United States
Historic Sites--United States
Ranch Houses--United States
Vernacular Architecture--United States
[material of building]--United States, e.g., Stone building
[name of building], e.g., Mount Vernon
[name of place]--Buildings, structures
[period of building] e.g., Architecture--United States--19th century
[style of building]--United States, e.g. Greek revival
[type of building]--United States, e.g., Church Architecture

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Finding journal articles

A selection of journal (periodical) indexes to find articles on your topic. For additional indexes see Architecture Indexes and Abstracts (UC Berkeley, Library). and Article Databases (UC Berkeley, Library). Click on to locate the articles.

America: history and life UC Only Contains article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews & dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada.
Print: 1954- Main Stack E3 A43
American periodicals series online, 1740-1900 UCB Only Digitized images of more than 1,100 periodicals. Includes special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically significant magazines. Search for articles, or browse subjects.
American studies article databases UC Only or UCB Only Descriptions and links to 18 electronic indexes or databases with excellent coverage of American studies.
Art index retrospective and Art full text via WilsonWeb UC Only Indexes journal articles in art and related fields, including architecture, art history, city planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. Some full text.
Online ed.: Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984; Art Full Text: 1984-
Print: Art Index, 1929-1994; EnvDesign N18 A72 Index
Avery index to architectural periodicals via CSA UC Only Contains citations to articles in 5,000+ periodicals in architecture, planning, urban design, and related disciplines. Includes most American architecture journals.
Print: 1890-1995; EnvDesign fNA8 C64 1973 Index
Ethnic news watch UCB Only Indexes over 200 ethnic, minority, and native press publications. Full text of news, culture, and history searchable in both English and Spanish, 1960-.
JSTOR UCB Only Package of more than 200 full text scholarly journals, including more than 70,000 issues, on a wide range of subjects. Includes several important architectural journals, such as Winterthur Portfolio, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Architectural Education, Assemblage, and APT Bulletin. Search engine not as good as Avery Index.
Lexis-Nexis academic UCB Only Full text. Indexes both journals and newspapers, including major American newspapers. Most from 1980s to present.
Nineteenth century masterfile 1802-1906 UCB Only Indexes almost 500 American and English periodicals and newspapers from a 105-year span. Enhances W.F. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802-1906, by including more publications and offering subject access to articles.
Readers' guide via WilsonWeb UC Only Covers more than 500 leading American magazines and journals from 1890 to 1982.
Print: 1900- Current; Doe Reference AJ3.R4 Periodical Indexes

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Images

For additional sources, check Guide to Library catalogs under Subject Keyword: [name of subject]--pictorial, e.g., Subject Keywords: School buildings pictorial, or Mount Vernon pictorial.

American architecture, a history / by Leland M. Roth. Boulder, Colo.: Icon Editions/Westview Press, 2001.
EnvDesign NA705.R669 2001
American memory. U.S. Library of Congress. Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library of Congress' Americana collections.
Architecture in America: a photographic history from the colonial period to the present / by Wayne Andrews. Rev. ed. New York : Atheneum, 1977.
EnvDesign NA705.A53 1977
The Architecture of the United States / G. E. Kidder Smith; in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1981.
EnvDesign NA705.S578 Reference v.1-3
ARTstor UCB Only A repository of more than 700,000 digital images, including the Harthill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts, etc. Guide
Built in America. Digital images from Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present.
Digital archive of American architecture. (Jeffery Howe, Boston College.) Free educational use of nearly 1,500 images of 280 American buildings.
Early illustrations and views of American architecture. Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. New York, Dover [1971] Dover pictorial archive series.
EnvDesign NA710.G531 1971
Image and sound databases (UC Berkeley, Library). Descriptions and links to selected electronic databases.
Image sources for the built environment (UC Berkeley, Library). Great place to start. A selected list of books and digital sources that provide views, plans, sections, elevations, or details of important buildings and sites.
Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange. Selected images of world architecture, and a separate selection of nearly 300 important American landmarks arranged in groups by dates.
SPIRO (Architecture Visual Resources Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley). The visual online public access catalog to approximately 16% of the Architecture Slide Library's collection of over 250,000 35mm slides. Many images from SPIRO have been added to ARTstor (listed above).
World architecture index: a guide to illustrations / Edward H. Teague. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. Art reference collection; no. 12. Arranged by city with indexes by work and architect.
EnvDesign NA202.T4 1991Ref & Reference desk, Main Stacks

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Guidebooks

A selection of guides. For additional titles, check Library catalogs under: Subject Keywords: Architecture--[name of state--name of city]--Guidebooks, or Architecture--Details, or Architecture--{place]--Handbooks.

AIA guides. Search Library catalogs under: Title Keyword: AIA guide* for more than 20 architectural guides to individual US cities sponsored by the American Institute of Architects. [Use the * truncation symbol to pick up variations, singular, plural.]
American architecture: a field guide to the most important examples / William Dudley Hunt, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, c1984.
EnvDesign NA705.H85 1984
American houses, a field guide to the architecture of the home. Gerald Foster. Boston: New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Well illustrated with plans and photos of vernacular and high-style homes across the U.S. from 1620s to the present.
EnvDesign NA72205.F67 2004
American shelter: an illustrated encyclopedia of the American home / Lester Walker; preface by Charles Moore. Rev. ed. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1997, c1996. Excellent illustrations, with details and characters of different styles and types. Especially good for vernacular designs.
EnvDesign NA7205.W34 1997
The architecture traveler: a guide to 263 key American buildings / Sydney LeBlanc. Rev. ed.New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
EnvDesign NA712.L4 2005 Reference
The buildings of main street: a guide to American commercial architecture / Richard Longstreth. Updated ed. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, c2000. American Association for State and Local History book series.
EnvDesign NA6212.L66 2000 Reference Desk
Buildings of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. 1993- . Search library catalogs in Advanced Search under Series: Buildings of the United States to see complete list. Each volume is devoted to one state and has its own call number.
Clues to American architecture / Marilyn W. Klein, David P. Fogle. Rev. ed. Washington, DC : Starrhill Press, c1986.
EnvDesign NA705.K561 1986 Reference desk
Field guide to American architecture / by Carole Rifkind. New York: New American Library, c1980. A Plume book)
EnvDesign NA705.R53 1980b Reference & circulating; Moffitt
Field guide to American houses / Virginia and Lee McAlester. New York : Knopf, 1984.
EnvDesign NA7205.M35 1984 Reference & circulating
A field guide to America's historic neighborhoods and museum houses: the western states / Virginia and Lee McAlester. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1998.
EnvDesign NA7223.M33 1998 Reference & circulating
Field guide to contemporary American architecture / Carole Rifkind. New York : Dutton, c1998.
EnvDesign NA705.R53 1998 Reference & circulating
Guide to U.S. architecture, 1940-1980 / Esther McCoy and Barbara Goldstein. Santa Monica, Calif.: Arts & Architecture Press, 1982.
EnvDesign NA705.M3 Reference
Historic landmarks of Black America / by George Cantor. Detroit : Gale Research, 1991.
EnvDesign E185.53.A1.C36 1991
Houses and house-life of the American aborigines / Lewis Henry Morgan. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, c2003.
Anthropology E98.D9.M65 2003
National Geographic guide to America's great houses: more than 150 outstanding mansions open to the public / by Henry Wiencek and Donna M. Lucey. [Washington, D.C.]: National Geographic Society, 1999.
EnvDesign NA7205.W485 1999
National Geographic guide to America's historic places / prepared by the Book Division, National Geographic Society. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 1996.
EnvDesign E159.N29 1996
National landmarks, America's treasures: the National Park Foundation's complete guide to national historic landmarks / S. Allen Chambers, Jr. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
EnvDesign E159.C43 2000 Reference
The National Trust guide to Art Deco in America / David Gebhard. New York : J. Wiley ; [Washington, D.C.] : Preservation Press, c1996.
EnvDesign NA712.5.A7.G4 1996 Reference
Source book of American architecture: 500 notable buildings from the 10th century to the present / G.E. Kidder Smith. 1st ed. New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c1996.
EnvDesign NA705.S578 1996 Reference, Main Stack
Treasures of American architecture and their architects / John D. Randall. [S.l.] : J.D. Randall, c1992.
EnvDesign NA705.R365 1992 Reference

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Selected surveys & General histories

A representative sampling.

America builds: source documents in American architecture and planning / edited by Leland M. Roth. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1983. (Series: Icon editions)
EnvDesign, Moffitt NA705.A48 1983
America by design / Spiro Kostof. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. Print: EnvDesign, Art/Classics, Moffitt, Morrison permanent collection NA705.K641 1987
Video: Media Center VIDEO/C 1039 episodes 1-5 (1984)
American architectural history: a contemporary reader / edited by Keith L. Eggener. London; New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.
Table of contents
EnvDesign NA705.A483 2004
American architecture / David P. Handlin. 2nd edition London : Thames and Hudson, c2004. World of art.
EnvDesign NA712.H26 2004
American architecture, 1607-1976 / Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1980.
EnvDesign NA705.W473
American architecture and urbanism / Vincent Scully. New rev. ed. New York : H. Holt, c1988.
EnvDesign NA705.S361 1988; Moffitt NA705.S36
American building / James Marston Fitch. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1966-1972. 2 v. v.1: The historical forces that shaped it; v.2: The environmental forces that shaped it.
EnvDesign NA705.F57 1966 2 vols.
American building: materials and techniques from the first colonial settlements to the present / Carl W. Condit 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Chicago history of American civilization.
EnvDesign TH23.C58 1982
American buildings and their architects [by] William H. Pierson, Jr. and William H. Jordy. [1st ed.] Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1970. [v.1] The colonial and neoclassical styles.--[v.2] Technology and the picturesque.-- [v.3 never published].--[v.4] Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century.--[v. 5].The impact of European modernism in the mid-twentieth century.
EnvDesign NA705.P5 v. 1-2, 4-5
The American home: architecture and society, 1815-1915 / David P. Handlin. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c1979.
EnvDesign, Moffitt NA7207.H32
America's architectural roots: ethnic groups that built America /edited by Dell Upton. Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, c1986. Building watchers series.
EnvDesign, Anthro NA705.A4931 1986
Architecture in the United States / Dell Upton. Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Oxford history of art.
EnvDesign, Main Stack, Moffitt NA705.U67 1998
Architecture in the United States: a survey of architectural styles since 1776 / Ralph W. Hammett. New York : Wiley, c1976.
EnvDesign NA705.H331
The architecture of America; a social and cultural history. John E. Burchard. Boston, Little, Brown [1966].
EnvDesign NA705.B8 1966
Building the nation: Americans write about their architecture, their cities, and their landscape. Philadelphia: University of pennsylvania Press, 2003. Anthology with a wide range of writings from two centuries, including Mark Twain, W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Lewis Mumford, E. B. White, and John McPhee, contemplating the American way of building. Also includes little-known writers in American newspapers and magazines.
EnvDesign NA705.B759 2003
The buildings of main street: a guide to American commercial architecture / Richard Longstreth. Updated ed. Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2000. American Association for State and Local History book series.
EnvDesign NA6212.L66 2000 Reference Desk
Built in the U.S.A.: American buildings from airports to zoos / ed. Diane Maddex (National Trust for Historic Preservation). Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, c1985. Building watchers series.
EnvDesign NA705.B76 1985 Reference desk & circulating; Moffitt
A concise history of American architecture / by Leland M. Roth. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Icon editions.
EnvDesign, Moffitt NA705.R67 1979
A history of American architecture: buildings in their cultural and technological context / Mark Gelernter. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1999.
EnvDesign NA705.G35 1999
History of public works in the United States, 1776-1976 / by American Public Works Association; editor, Ellis L. Armstrong. Chicago: The Association, c1976.
EnvDesign HD3885.A631 1976 Reference & circulating; Moffitt
Native American architecture / Peter Nabokov, Robert Easton. New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
EnvDesign, Anthro, Ethnic Studies, Moffitt E98.D9.N33 1989
Rise of an American architecture. Henry-Russell Hitchcock [et al.]. New York, Published in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Praeger [1970].
EnvDesign NA710.R5
The rise of the skyscraper. Carl W. Condit. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1952].
EnvDesign NA712 C65
Shaping a nation: twentieth-century American architecture and its makers / Carter Wiseman. 1st ed. New York : Norton, c1998.
EnvDesign NA712.W57 1998
Shingle styles: innovation and tradition in American architecture, 1874 to 1982 / Leland M. Roth. New York : Norfleet Press : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
EnvDesign NA7207.R68 1999
Sticks and stones; a study of American architecture and civilization. Lewis Mumford. [2d rev. ed.] NY: Dover Publications [1955]
EnvDesign, Moffitt NA705.M8 1955

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Styles & periods

Selected, representative guides and surveys that focus on specific American styles or periods.

Overviews

The American house [videorecording] : a guide to architectural styles / Lake Zurich, IL : Learning Seed Company, c1992. How to identify the most common styles of American houses, emphasizing the richness of architectural variety in residential design. Includes Tudor; Neo-Classic (Greek revival); Queen Anne; Bungalow (Craftsman); Ranch/Split level; Prairie School (Frank Lloyd Wright); Colonial Revival (Dutch, Spanish, New England, Georgian); and Neo-Eclectic Contemporary (Internatinal School, Post modern).
Media Resources Center VIDEO/C 6128
American house styles: a concise guide / John Milnes Baker. New York: W.W. Norton, c1994.
EnvDesign NA7205.B33 1994 Reference desk
The elements of style: an practical encyclopedia of interior architectural details, from 1485 to the present / Rev. ed. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1996. Organized by period and style with major characteristics of design elements of each style.
EnvDesign NA2850.E44 1996 Reference
Identifying American architecture: a pictorial guide to styles and terms, 1600-1945 / James J.-G. Blumenson. 2d ed., rev. and enl. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History ; New York : Norton, 1981.
EnvDesign NA705.B55 1981 Reference & circulating; Moffitt
The visual dictionary of American domestic architecture/ by Rachel Carley ; illustrations by Ray Skibinski and Ed Lam. New York : Henry Holt and Co., c1994. Henry Holt reference book.
EnvDesign NA7205.C27 1994 Reference Desk & circulating
What style is it? a guide to American architecture / John C. Poppeliers, S. Allen Chambers, Jr. Rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2003. Table of contents
EnvDesign NA705.P6 2003

Specific styles & periods

American art deco: architecture and regionalism / Carla Breeze. 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2003.
EnvDesign NA712.5.A7.B698 2003
American gothic: its origins, its trials, its triumphs / text and photos by Wayne Andrews. New York : Vintage Books, 1975.
EnvDesign NA710.A531 1975b
The American skyscraper: cultural histories / Roberta Moudry, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Description | Table of contents
EnvDesign NA6232.A44 2005
Architecture in colonial America / Marian C. Donnelly; Leland M. Roth, ed.. Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 2003.
EnvDesign NA707.D66 2003
The Architecture of the Ecole des beaux-arts / edited by Arthur Drexler [et al.]. New York: Museum of Modern Art: Cambridge, Mass.: distributed by MIT Press, c1977.
EnvDesign, Main Stacks, Moffitt NA1047.5.E34.A72
Bauhaus in America[videorecording]. Producer/director, Judith Pearlman. New York : Cliofilm, 1994. VHS. Documentary video, 87 minutes.
Media Center VIDEO/C 4699
Craftsman style / Robert Winter. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Table of contents
EnvDesign NA7208.W56 2004
The Egyptian revival: its sources, monuments, and meaning, 1808-1858 / Richard G. Carrott. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978.
EnvDesign, Moffitt NA710.5.E48.C37
Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture / Alan Hess. San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, 1986.
EnvDesign NA7856.H471 1986
Greek revival architecture in America: being an account of important trends in American architecture and American life prior to the war between the states. Talbot Hamlin; …with a list of articles on architecture in some American periodicals prior to 1850… London, New York [etc]: Oxford university press, 1944.
EnvDesign NA707.H3, Moffitt NA707.H32
The international style. Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson. New York, Norton [1966] The Norton library, N311.
EnvDesign NA680.H5 1966
Mid-century architecture in America; honor awards of the American Institute of Architects, 1949-1961. American Institute of Architects,Wolf Von Eckardt, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961.
EnvDesign NA712.A5
Modern architecture in America: visions and revisions / edited by Richard Guy Wilson and Sidney K. Robinson. 1st ed. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991.
EnvDesign NA710.M6 1991
On the rise: architecture and design in a post modern age / Paul Goldberger. New York, N.Y. : Times Books, c1983.
EnvDesign NA705.G57 1983
Roots of contemporary American architecture; a series of thirty-seven essays dating from the mid-nineteenth century. Lewis Mumford. New York, Reinhold [1952]
EnvDesign NA710.M8
The shingle style and the stick style: architectural theory and design from Richardson to the origins of Wright / Vincent J. Scully. Rev. ed. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1971. Yale historical publications. History of art; 20.
EnvDesign NA7207.S38 1971
"Symbolic essence" and other writings on modern architecture and American culture / William H. Jordy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Table of contents
EnvDesign NA712.J67 2005
Victorian America: classical Romanticism to gilded opulence / Wendell Garrett. New York: Rizzoli, 1993.
EnvDesign NA7207.G37 1993

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Organizations

See also related organizations listed in our guides, American Cultural Landscapes, History of Architecture, and Vernacular Architecture. Check the links in each of these sites for additional associations and organizations.

AIA, the American Institute of Architects http://aia.org/
Professional organization of architects dedicated to serving its members, advancing their value, and improving the quality of the built environment.
Art Deco Society of California http://www.artdecosociety.org/
Website offers many events, resources, links.
DoCoMoMo U.S. http://www.docomomo-us.org/
DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern MOvement.
Historic American Buildings Survey http://www.nps.gov/hdp/
A federal program that documents important architectural, engineering and industrial sites throughout the United States and its territories.
Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America http://www.classicist.org/
Advances practice and appreciation of the classical tradition in architecture and allied arts.
National Building Museum http://www.nbm.org/
Federal museum dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning.
National Register of Historic Places http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/
Nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. Excellent resources and links.
National Trust for Historic Preservation http://www.preservationnation.org/
Privately funded non-profit organization that provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.
Society for Industrial Archaeology http://www.siahq.org/
Encourages the study, interpretation, and preservation of historically significant industrial sites, structures, artifacts, and technology
Society of Architectural Historians http://sah.org
An international not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide
Theatre Historical Society of America http://www.historictheatres.org/
Non-profit association devoted to the architecture of theater buildings.
Vernacular Architecture Forum http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org/
Encourages the study and preservation of ordinary architecture of North America
Victorian Society in America http://www.victoriansociety.org/
A national non-profit organization committed to historic preservation, protection, understanding, education, and enjoyment of our nineteenth century heritage.

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