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Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, twelve historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States.As architects separated themselves from amateur and gentlemen designers on the one hand...

Architectural forms and theories are spread not just by buildings, but by the distribution of images and descriptions fed through the printing press. This illustrated sequel to "American Architects and Their Books to 1848" discusses from various points of view the books that inspired architects, and the books the architects themselves produced.