TY  - BOOK
AU  - Randl,Chad
TI  - A-frame
SN  - 1568984100
AV  - NA7575 R35 2004
U1  - 728.7/2/0973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Princeton Architectural Press
KW  - A-frame houses
KW  - United States
KW  - Local
KW  - Vacation homes
KW  - Architecture
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Wooden-frame houses
KW  - Cottages
N1  - include index; Include Bibliography; Chapter 1 A-Frame Antecedents (to 1950) --
Chapter 2 The Right Shape at the Right Time --
Chapter 3 Setting the Stage (1950-1957) --
Chapter 4 Popularity, Plan Books, and Promotion (1958-1962) --
chapter 5 A-Frame Apogee (1962-1972) --
Chapter 6 Beyond the Vacation Home --
Chapter 7 A Cultural and Marketing Icon --
N2  - "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
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