Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement

摘要

One can only admire a person who, on retiring from a long and productive scholarly career, takes the time to provide us with a summative statement of all that he has learned over the past thirty-odd years. Tom Carter, who began his study of the Mormon vernacular landscape as a doctoral student in folklore at Indiana University, spent much of his professional career in Utah, where he taught in the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah. Carter, of course, is no stranger to anyone who has been involved with the Ver-nacular Architecture Forum. Along with his writings on Utah architecture, he has coed-ited volumes of the Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture book series (the predecessor to this journal) and more recently coauthored Invitation to Vernacular Architecture (the first volume of the VAF's special series) with Elizabeth Cromley.