Shingle Styles: Innovation and Tradition in American Architecture 1874 to 1982

by Leland M. Roth

This volume, through magnificent color photography and engaging, informative text, celebrates one of America's most original and beautiful architectural idioms - the Shingle Style. Thirty of the nation's finest examples of Shingle architecture are strikingly portrayed here - from McKim, Mead & White's casino in Newport, Rhode Island, to Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, to Julia Morgan's Sausalito Woman's Club in Sausalito, California.. "Other prominent architects with landmark structures featured here are Bernard Maybeck, Henry Hobson Richardson, Greene & Greene, Ernest Coxhead, John Calvin Stevens, William Ralph Emerson, Charles Alonzo Rich, and Wilson Eyre. To demonstrate both the vitality and endurance of the Shingle Style, the book's final section includes houses by such contemporary architects as Joseph Esherick, Robert A. M. Stern, and Robert Venturi. Collectively, the designers whose work is featured in Shingle Styles represent an important cross-section of distinguished American architects of the last 125 years.. "Shingle Styles is for architects, designers, historians, preservationists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about this remarkable and uniquely American architecture.

Genres: Architecture

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1999

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boy, was I naïve about the interiors of those huge shingle style homes on Cape Cod and Long Island, and in Rhode Island-they were so opulent! I guess I was confused by their similarities to the Arts and Crafts style. Leland M. Roth does a good job tracing this architectural style from its earliest roots in Early American architecture to its founding in the late 1800s. He explains the major architects involved in its formation and how it developed across the country. Most of the chapters focus primarily on a single building including the building's location, architect, and original owner with photographs of its interior and exterior. Many of the buildings addressed had commercial purposes. If your interest in this book is as a student interested in architecture, you will find this book very interesting. However, if you are interested in home styles and are looking for any practical ideas, this is not the book for you!