""Colonial," "Victorian," "Neoclassical," "Modern"--What distinguishes one architectural style from another? How and where did these different styles develop? America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people. When we explo…
Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space investigates the relationship between the built environment and the organisation of space. The contributors are classical and prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists and architects, who from their different backgrounds are able to p…
An examination of the so-called Contemporary style that dominated architecture and design from the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. It shows the trends in taste and interior design at a time of economic regeneration that affected not only people's homes but public buildings.
