I wrote San Luis Obispo County Architecture (Arcadia, 2023) both to record the incredible richness and innovation of architecture in a remote California county—halfway between the Bay Area and LA—and to give people a guide to the forgotten languages of architecture. The book shows examples of over forty styles: Chumash qnipu; Mission; Greek and Gothic Revivals; Neoclassical; Swiss; Neobaroque; Second Empire; Eastlake; Romanesque; Richardsonian Romanesque; Queen Anne; Castellated; Corrugated Arch; Western False Front Commercial; Tuscan Revival; Colonial Revival; Prairie School; National Park Service Rustic; California Bungalow; First and Second Bay Traditions; Mission, Spanish Colonial, and Hacienda Revivals; Lutyensesque Georgian and Normandy Revivals; Palladian; Diocletian; Usonian; Bauhaus; Art Deco; Streamline Moderne; Public Works Administration Moderne; Modern; Mid-Century Modern; Organic; Minimal Traditional; Ranch; Tiki; Found Object; Mimetic; and Geodesic. 

Just as important, the book covers fourteen construction techniques: wickiup, adobe, stone and brick masonry, single-wall load-bearing, stacked log, stacked plank, post and beam, balloon frame, corrugated iron arch, poured concrete, concrete slab, steel frame, tensile, and gridshell. 

Price $24.99; buy at a bookstore or online or (better) text me at 805-470-0983 for a copy by Venmo or check.