Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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General Resources Encyclopædia Britannica: Includes complete encyclopedia (15th ed.). Users can simultaneously search the encyclopedia, reviews of the Web sites, articles, and related books. More than 65,000 subjects are addressed in articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage. Online. Grove Dictionary of Art: The Dictionary of Art Online is a fully searchable copy of the print dictionary (published in 1996), including some but not all of the illustrations and photographs in the print version. Online version includes annual additions of new material. Although not specific to architecture, the dictionary includes biographical entries (signed and incl. biblioography) for architects and a broader coverage of the discipline in general. - Online.
The classical language of architecture. John Summerson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. - NA31 S96 1980 A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture. John Henry Parker. (8th ed.) Oxford, London, J. Parker and Co., 1892. - A dictionary of architecture and building. Russell Sturgis. NY: MacMillan Company; London: MacMillan., 1901-1902. - NA31 S89 Elsevier's dictionary of architecture in five languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch. Amsterdam; New York: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1988. - NA31 E56 1988. An encyclopædia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. Joseph Gwilt ... Illustrated with more than eleven hundred engravings on wood by R. Branston from drawings by John Sebastian Gwilt. Rev., with alterations and considerable additions, by Wyatt Papworth ... Additionally illustrated with nearly four hundred engravings on wood by O. Jewitt, and nearly two hundred other illustrations. London, Longmans, Green, and co., 1881. Encyclopedia of architectural technology. Pedro Guedes, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979. Architectural styles, building types, building techniques through the ages, including the present. - NA31 E58 Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture. R. Stephen Sennott, editor. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. Short biographical sketches written by architectural historians. Most entries include at least two references sources to further information on the architect. - NA680 .E495X 2004. Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world. Paul Oliver, ed. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 3 vols. Comprehensive encyclopedia with articles by experts in their fields. Vol. 1, theories and principles; Vols. 2-3, cultures and habitats, geographically. Complex hierarchical and alphabetical organizational structure--be sure to read the explanation on how to use. Includes cross-references, glossary, comparative lexikon of terms in 6 languages, bibliography, index of cultures, habitats, nations and locations, and general index. - NA208 E53X 1997 Glossarium Artis. Munchen: K.G. Saur. 1977-- v.1-- . Series of illustrated dictionaries of highly specialized art and architectural terms in English, French and German. Each volume a separate topic. Search Library catalog by title of series. Glossarium Artis
The Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. John Fleming. 5th ed. London, England; New York, N.Y., USA: Penguin Books, 1998. - NA31 F55 1998
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