Landscape Architecture: Reference

Defines the wide range of terms used in this diverse field. More than 7500 terms and 300 illustrations clearly exemplify construction and/or composition landscape elements.

Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to ziggurat, this authoritative dictionary of architecture covers all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day. Beautifully illustrated and written in a clear and concise style, it also includes brief biographies of leading architects.

This dictionary provides a vocabulary that allows the architecture discourse to go beyond the declaration of constructive relationships or the description of architectonic forms in familiar terms like "roof," "base," "wall," and "axis" or "proportion".

This unique, multilingual, encyclopedic dictionary in two volumes covers terms regularly used in landscape and urban planning, as well as environmental protection. The languages are American and British English, Spanish (with many Latin-American equivalents), French, and German.
(Also available in print: SB469.25 .E53 2010)

Now in full color--a thoroughly updated edition of the premier illustrated architectural dictionary Revised and expanded, the Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition, features 8,000 definitions, 4,000 illustrations, and biographies of hundreds of architects accompanied by classic examples of their work.

With well over 300 contributors and 500 entries, "Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs" details selected major cities, suburbs, people, places, concepts, contemporary issues, history, and development of urban America.

Learn about how ancient and non-Western cultures valued the environment, and study examples of ancient and non-Western architecture, gardening, obelisks, irrigation and water management, geography and city planning.