Review of Native American Architecture.

Authors

Carroll Van West, Middle Tennessee State UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

1989

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly SPRING 1989.Copyright 1989 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Over the past generation, studies of American vernacular architecture have transformed the way we look at the landscape. But not until the publication of Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton's Native American Architecture did we have a recent comprehensive exploration of the real roots of American architecture, the buildings, structures, and landscapes of Native Americans. Nabokov and Easton fill this massive gap in scholarship splendidly and their book will be a basic reference in American vernacular architecture for years to come.