By Russell Versaci
For over 30 years, renowned architect Russell Versaci has dedicated his career to designing new houses with a timeless quality that makes them look and feel like old homes. In his first book, The New Old House, Versaci invited the reader to see just how that is done. In Roots of Home, he takes it one step further: part architectural, part historical, the book narrates the various European and Continental customs that influenced regional house styles throughout the country.
Illustrated with over 300 maps, drawings, and photographs by DC photographer Erik Kvalsvik, Roots of Home traces the history of the building traditions brought to the states by colonists, and follows the evolution of various styles—from Dutch Colonial Revivals and the Maryland Manor Houses of the Chesapeake Bay to French Colonial Plantation Houses—through present day. —reviewed by Annliese Scott
Taunton Press/272 pages
Russell Versaci Architecture is based in Middleburg, Virginia.
russellversaci.com or 540-687-877
