Barn: Preservation & Adaptation The Evolution of a Vernacular Icon

by David Larkin, Elric Endersby, Alexander Greenwood

Book Overview

In the vernacular vocabulary of America, the barn stands proud, a hulking icon in the agricultural landscape. Unlike a house, the barn is chaste. For this is a place for work--a space rubbed by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789307944
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Universe
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Recommended if your into traditional stlye

Excellent book, if the other book, Barns: Living in Converted and Reinvented Spaces is the ying, then this book is the yang. A good inspirational design book if you're interested in reusing an old barn for modern day use and staying within the original design. The text is interesting and informative with the accompanying photos following along with the text. The pictures are overall excellent, sharp, clear, in detail and professionally done, with very very few exceptions. Some buildings are shown with structural drawings that help visualize the internal timber frame or stone structure with the accompanying photogaphs. The authors seems to be a die hard traditionalist, very critical and at times mildly insulting to designers that chose to remodel the old barns in the modern way and deviating from what the original builders did. But at times understanding that the modern style is a better fate than total destruction of a old old structure.