American Colonial architecture AtermusuallyappliedtocolonialbuildingsconstructedinAmericabyEnglishimmigrantstotheNewWorld;oftenclassifiedaccordingtoregioninAmerica. McGraw-HillDictionaryofArchitectureandConstruction.Copyright©2003byMcGraw-HillCompanies,Inc. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us...
Deetz's seminal work broke new ground by using structuralist theory to show how artefacts reflected the 'worldviews' or idealogies of their makers and users, and claimed that the American colonial world had been structured according to a British intellectual blueprint, the so-called 'Georgian ...