The Practical Book of Architecture

actual adaptation American architecture AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSE arch archi architect architectural styles Beaux Arts Beaux Arts architecture brick building materials built bungalow Byzantine Byzantine architecture called carved Cathedral chapter characteristic charming château church city house Classic Revival client Colonial colour columns consideration conspicuous construction contractor cost decorative detail door Doric Doric order drawings Dutch dwelling England English country house entirely essentially example exterior façade forms France furniture garden Georgian Gothic architecture Gothic style half-timber half-timber construction idea illustrations important influence inspiration interesting interior Italian Renaissance Italian villa Italy Jacobean Louis XVI Mead & White ment Modern American modern English monumental motifs mouldings natural painting patio pediment period picturesque porch prospective builder regarded Renaissance architecture rendering Roman Romanesque Romanesque architecture roof rooms Spanish stone structural stucco tects tectural terraces tile tion to-day Tudor tural types of building typical usually vaults wall York City