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<p>An easy-to-use reference to 500 years of architectural details and styles -- a comprehensive visual survey, period-by-period, of the styles that affected American and British architecture. Includes detailed drawings.</p><h3>Library Journal</h3><p>Calloway (curator of prints, Victoria and Albert Museum), assisted by a dozen other style experts from both sides of the Atlantic, addresses the concerns of amateur and professional preservationists with the new edition of this guide to period styles in Great Britain and the United States from the Renaissance to the present. Each chapter begins with a concise overview of a period style (e.g., Colonial, Baroque, Edwardian Beaux Arts) and is followed by pages teeming with illustrations of representative doors, windows, fireplaces, and other structural/decorative elements. The stylistic analyses are sometimes questionable-e.g., Wright's Robie House as Art Nouveau?-but generally succeed in capturing each period in lively and penetrating detail. Reviews of the first two editions acclaimed Elements as an exhaustive, brilliantly illustrated handbook and this new edition differs but slightly from the earlier two. Its directories of British and

Author

Alan Powers, Stephen Calloway, Elizabeth C. Cromley, Calloway, Stephen Calloway

Publisher

Richmond Hill, Ont. ; Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781554070794

Subjects

Architecture, History, Art

Rating

4.8 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14