The Cape Cod cottage has been one of America's most popular home styles for almost four hundred years. While a perennial domestic favorite, historians have long ignored the modest Cape Cod, relegating it to a vernacular footnote along with barns and mills. In The Cape Cod Cottage architectural historian and photographer William Morgan places this uniquely American housea remarkable combination of necessity and traditionin its historical context and makes a compellingargument for the reassessment of its place in the history of American architecture. The Cape Cod Cottage follows the uniquely American house type from its earliest beginnings in the colonial period, through its spread across New England, to its embrace as a suburban ideal in the twentieth century, and its reinterpretation by contemporary architects. Historical images oflost Capes augment beautiful new photographs taken specifically for the book. As a tribute to a special house, The Cape Cod Cottage is an appeal to preserve the Cape's legacy and an essential document of this unique architectural icon.

ウィリアム・モーガンは、四百年にわたるアメリカの魂を「ケープコッド」という質素な家に投影し、その精神性を鮮やかに描き出します。かつて「土着の脚注」と軽んじられたこの家屋を、必要性と伝統が究極の調和を遂げた象徴へと昇華させる彼の筆致は、建築史に新たな光を当てる情熱に満ちています。 本書は単なる記録に留まらず、開拓時代の知恵から現代の理想までを繋ぐ壮大な叙事詩です。失われた風景を惜しみ、遺産を守り抜こうとするモーガンの叫びは、読者に「住まうことの真の価値」を問いかけます。美しい写真と知的な洞察が響き合う、建築への深い愛に溢れた至高の一冊です。