500 Small Houses of the Twenties (Dover Architecture)

Spurred by a rapidly expanding economy and abundant resources of land building materials and skilled labor the dream of building and owning one's own home became a reality in America in the 1920s. With the beginning market for small- to medium-sized one-family dwellings came a succession of innovative home designs that transformed American domestic architecture.This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared in a major architectural publication of 1923. Many are by leading domestic architects of the period. Each design is presented in a handsome perspective drawing or photograph along with floor plans and a description of its principal features.The designs reflect many variations on the basic themes of American colonial architecture updated by new construction technology and the design aesthetics of the post‒World War I era. The Bungalow and semi-bungalow were perhaps the biggest design news of the times and they are generously represented in this hu