This volume brings together nineteen essays from an array of academic disciplines -- American studies, folklore, history, architectural history, and architecture -- which are currently contributing to the study of vernacular structures and places. Addressing places as distant from each other as rural Massachusetts and Hawai'i and building types as disparate as Native American houses in Alaska and vacation cottages in Florida, the contributors are unified in their concern with community building and place making.As the editors note, scholarship on vernacular forms once focused rather narrowly...
This volume brings together nineteen essays from an array of academic disciplines -- American studies, folklore, history, architectural history, and a...
Blending architectural and social history with the necessity--and the passion--for food, this engaging new book attempts to understand the development of the American house by viewing it through one very specific lens: the food axis. Taking in far more than the kitchen, author Elizabeth Collins Cromley explores all areas of food management within the home--preparation, cooking, consumption, and disposal. Her food axis implies a network of related spaces above and below ground, both attached to the house and separate from it. Studying the use and interaction of these spaces, and the ways in...
Blending architectural and social history with the necessity--and the passion--for food, this engaging new book attempts to understand the developm...
