An e-book reader of articles on vernacular architecture that were published
in *Winterthur Portfolio *is now available from the University of Chicago
Press.  Among the articles included that many of you will recognize is
“Impermanent Architecture in the Southern Colonies” by Cary Carson, Norman
F. Barka, William M. Kelso, Garry Wheeler Stone, and Dell Upton from 1981.


Amy C. Earls, the Managing Editor of Winterthur Portfolio, provided the
following information.  The anthology *Vernacular America: Architectural
Studies from Winterthur Portfolio *offers students, researchers, and
instructors an inexpensive resource on the history of the built environment.
Barbara Burlison Mooney, of the University of Iowa, provides a new editor’s
introduction contextualizing this broad overview of common architecture in
the United States as well as commentary and study questions for each
article.  The e-book’s fourteen articles span thirty years of *Winterthur
Portfolio *scholarship from research focused on building practices and
materials to pattern books and Victorian mail-order plans, from suburban
development to situating buildings in a transatlantic framework.

The essays in this anthology treat an extensive array of subjects from
ephemeral early colonial architecture to colonial revival to case studies
of German material culture and creole identity in the New World.  Unlike
earlier scholarship that privileged high-style houses of the elite, the
articles in *Vernacular American *turn to buildings associated with
America’s middle and working classes, people of color, and women. The
studies on portable dwellings (including modern shipping containers) in
Jamaica, log cabins in Indiana, slave houses in the American South, and
urban dwellings in Baltimore reflect a more inclusive understanding of
vernacular architecture.

E-book format only, cost $20:  For more information go to

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/V/bo21263620.html

Peace,

George L. Miller