Capes: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Building New (Updating Classic America) [BARGAIN PRICE] (Hardcover)
March 22, 2010 by admin
Filed under Remodeling Books
From Publishers Weekly
Within the architectural syntax of the American homestead, the Cape Cod house stands as one of our most durable and prolific symbols, writes Gitlin, an architect and a Cape-owner herself. With its “simple one-and-a-half story form” and its steeply pitched roof, often capped with a few dormers, the Cape has long been accepted as a fundamental unit of middle-class comfort and modesty, especially since its proliferation in the decades following World War II. This (more…)





