Dell Upton (Editor) DELL UPTON is an assistant professor of architectural history at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia.John Michael Vlach (Editor) JOHN MICHAEL VLACH is a professor of American studies and anthropology and director of the Folklife Program at the George Washington University. He is the author of Charleston Blacksmith: The work of Philip Simmons (Georgia, 1981) and coeditor (with Dell Upton) of Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture (Georgia, 1986).

A superb collection . . . The articles illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the study of vernacular architecture and landscape and go beyond mere description of their specific subjects to demonstrate various analytical approaches to the material. In its geographical and chronological coverage Common Places surpasses such standard works as Henry Glassie's Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States and Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845. This is an excellent book. The list of likely users for this work is enormous: historians, geographers, anthropologists, architectural historians, historians of material culture, and students in these areas.

Dell Upton (Editor) DELL UPTON is an assistant professor of architectural history at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia.John Michael Vlach (Editor) JOHN MICHAEL VLACH is a professor of American studies and anthropology and director of the Folklife Program at the George Washington University. He is the author of Charleston Blacksmith: The work of Philip Simmons (Georgia, 1981) and coeditor (with Dell Upton) of Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture (Georgia, 1986).

A superb collection . . . The articles illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the study of vernacular architecture and landscape and go beyond mere description of their specific subjects to demonstrate various analytical approaches to the material. In its geographical and chronological coverage Common Places surpasses such standard works as Henry Glassie's Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States and Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845. This is an excellent book. The list of likely users for this work is enormous: historians, geographers, anthropologists, architectural historians, historians of material culture, and students in these areas.

Dell Upton (Editor) DELL UPTON is an assistant professor of architectural history at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia.John Michael Vlach (Editor) JOHN MICHAEL VLACH is a professor of American studies and anthropology and director of the Folklife Program at the George Washington University. He is the author of Charleston Blacksmith: The work of Philip Simmons (Georgia, 1981) and coeditor (with Dell Upton) of Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture (Georgia, 1986).

A superb collection . . . The articles illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of the study of vernacular architecture and landscape and go beyond mere description of their specific subjects to demonstrate various analytical approaches to the material. In its geographical and chronological coverage Common Places surpasses such standard works as Henry Glassie's Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States and Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845. This is an excellent book. The list of likely users for this work is enormous: historians, geographers, anthropologists, architectural historians, historians of material culture, and students in these areas.