Dictionary of Architecture

Name: Dictionary of Architecture
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ISBN: 9780192800176

ISBN-10: 0192800175

ISBN-13: 9780192800176

Edition: 2000

Authors: James Stevens Curl, John Sambrook

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Containing over 5,000 entries from Aalto to ziggurat, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of architecture in paperback. Beautifully illustrated and written in a clear and concise style, it is an invaluable work of reference for both students of architecture and the general reader, as well as professional architects. Covers all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day Concise biographies of leading architects, from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers Over 250 illustrations specially drawn for this volume

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Sample entries:baluster-side - Form like a rolled-up mattress, like a baluster laid on itsside, also known as a bolster, cushion, pulvin, or pulvinus, joining the volutes of an Ionic capital.Doshi, Balkrishna Vithaldas (b. 1927)


Indian architect, designer of the Centrefor Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad (196781), one of the mostsuccessful


Modernist buildings of its time in the Subcontinent


Influenced byLe *Corbusier (with whom he worked), his own studio at Sangath, Ahmedabad(197981), and the Gandhi Institute of Labour Studies, Ahmedabad (19804), showedhis debt to the Franco-Swiss architect