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Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
and Landscape Architecture
This fascinating, critically acclaimed dictionary, compiled
with flair, accuracy, and authority, covers every period of Western
architectural history, and includes landscape terms. It contains
over 6,000 entries, over 250 superb illustrations (all by the
author), concise biographies of a great number of architects and
writers on architecture, architectural terms, styles, a system
of cross-referencing, and a large bibliography.
Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
in the Oxford Paperback Reference Series (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000)
ISBN: 9780198606789 (pbk.) & 9780192806307 (hbk.)
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Reviews '...splendid...much more perceptive
that its recent predecessors....a smasher...you can't have a more
concise, entertaining, and informative guide to architecture'
The Architectural Review
'Each class of entry....is substantive and persuasive....readable
and informative...a most rewarding addition to the literature...Its
intellectual structure is sound, its materials are solid, and
its constituent parts are comely'
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA)
'A remarkable achievement....the most comprehensive and up-to-date
dictionary of architecture available in a single volume'
Country Life
'Anyone seeking a single-volume dictionary of architecture...has,
in fact, only one choice, and that is Curl... Once you have his
Dictionary on your shelf, it rapidly becomes indispensable'
The Magazine of the Twentieth-Century Society
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