A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture - signed copy Selfpublished grazing sheep and lone birds

grazing sheep and lone birds drifting across a monotone sky

Musee de l’Elysee

Whitney Museum of American Art

Year: 2020

Taking its name from a line in Wallace Stevens’ short poem “The Gray Room

A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture - signed copy Selfpublished grazing sheep and lone birdsPaperback with buckram cover23. 32 x 17 cm, 368 pagesSeptember 2021 Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional one way road trip across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive