Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia (Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design)
James A. Jacobs
€ 61.37
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia (Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design)
Hardcover. Explores the design and marketing of postwar houses in the US. James A. Jacobs shows how these houses physically document national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 179 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan periphery from both ... Read more
During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan periphery from both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937618
SKU
V9780813937618
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99
About James A. Jacobs
James A. Jacobs is a historian for the Historic American Buildings Survey and the National Historic Landmarks Program of the National Park Service.
Reviews for Detached America: Building Houses in Postwar Suburbia (Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design)
“Detached America examines closely the issues of housing that most adults are familiar with—the ranch house, the split level, informal living—but for the first time, these architectural forms are investigated in detail and placed within a rich social and cultural history.” —Andrew Dolkart, Columbia University