Randl, Chad. <br/><br/>
A-frame.  txt 
Chad Randl. 
 - 207 p.  ill.; col.; plans.;  21 cm.  book 
<br/><br/> include index 
<br/><br/>Include Bibliography 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1 A-Frame Antecedents (to 1950) --<br/>Chapter 2 The Right Shape at the Right Time --<br/>Chapter 3 Setting the Stage (1950-1957) --<br/>Chapter 4 Popularity, Plan Books, and Promotion (1958-1962) --<br/>chapter 5 A-Frame Apogee (1962-1972) --<br/>Chapter 6 Beyond the Vacation Home --<br/>Chapter 7 A Cultural and Marketing Icon -- 
<br/><br/> "A" was the architectural letterform of leisure building in postwar North America. A generation of high-end homebuilders and weekend handymen found the A-frame an easy and affordable home to build. By the 1960s the A-frame was an icon for recreation and an acceptable form of modernism-even though its origins go back thousands of years. So popular on the domestic front, the "triangle" house was eventually adapted to other building types, from roadside restaurants to churches.A-Frame traces this architectural phenomenon, from prehistoric Japan to its modern heyday. Part architectural history and part cultural exploration, the book documents A-frame living using cartoons, ads, high-style and do-it-yourself examples and family snapshots. The appendix includes a complete set of blueprints. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1568984100 9781568984100 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003024853 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>A-frame houses--United States.<br/>Vacation homes--United States.<br/>Architecture--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Wooden-frame houses--United States.<br/>Cottages.--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA7575  / R35 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>728.7/2/0973