David Plowden: The American Barn

by David Plowden

Book Overview

As an elemental part of our landscape and our history, barns evoke childhood memories for many of us, recollections of a simpler way of life. Regardless of their size or shape, their forms follow their functions. They are honest. They are beautiful. And they are rapidly vanishing. Across the land we see abandoned farms with barns falling down, being torn down, and only occasionally being converted to other uses. As urban sprawl eats up the countryside...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393025578
• ISBN13: 9780393025576
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.9" x 11.3"