Architecture & Built Environment · Architectural History
A topic within Architectural History, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Surveys domestic and civic building across the American colonies region by region, arguing colonial architecture adapted European precedent to local materials and climate rather than simply copying it.
Fiske Kimball
American colonial builders adapted English vernacular forms to local climate and materials, producing a distinct Georgian and later Federal idiom rather than a simple copy of the mother country's styles.
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