The Visual Dictionary of Architecture
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2007
288 pages
978-2-940447-06-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Visual Dictionary of Architecture is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms associated with, and used within, the field of architecture.
Over 250 architectural terms are explained and contextualised in this handy text, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary architecture.
The dictionary covers traditional terms still in current usage, as well as modern terminology such as blobtecture and McMansion. It also defines a wide variety of practical terms, such as belfry, cladding and rotunda, and movements and styles including Deconstructivism, Functionalism and Modernism.
Over 250 architectural terms are explained and contextualised in this handy text, with concise definitions accompanied by illustrations and examples taken from historical and contemporary architecture.
The dictionary covers traditional terms still in current usage, as well as modern terminology such as blobtecture and McMansion. It also defines a wide variety of practical terms, such as belfry, cladding and rotunda, and movements and styles including Deconstructivism, Functionalism and Modernism.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Lausanne
Switzerland
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
250 colour illus
ISBN-13
978-2-940447-06-0 (9782940447060)
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Gavin Ambrose is a graphic designer working with clients from the arts sector, publishers and advertising agencies.
Paul Harris is a writer and editor. His work has appeared extensively in magazines and journals.
Sally Stone is Director of the College of Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.
Paul Harris is a writer and editor. His work has appeared extensively in magazines and journals.
Sally Stone is Director of the College of Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.
Content
- Cover
- Title page
- Copy right
- How to get the most out of this book
- Introduction
- Contents
- The dictionary
- A
- Abacus
- Abutment
- Acanthus
- Achievement
- Acropolis
- Adam, Robert
- Addorsed
- Adobe
- Aedicule
- Aestheticism
- Affronted
- Alcazar
- Alcove
- Amenity Space
- Amphitheatre
- Ancient Egyptian Architecture
- Ando, Tadao
- Angkor Wat
- Apartment
- Aperture
- Appropriation
- Arabesque
- Arcade
- Arch
- Architect
- Architectural Styles
- Architecture
- Architrave
- Arcology
- Art Deco
- Art Nouveau
- Arts and Crafts Movement
- Astylar
- Asymmetry
- Atrium
- Axis
- B
- Balustrade
- Banister
- Barcelona Pavilion
- Baroque
- Basilica
- Bas-relief
- Bauhaus
- Bay
- Beaux-Arts
- Belfry
- Blobitecture
- Brickwork
- Brutalism
- Buttress
- Byzantine
- C
- CAD
- Calatrava, Santiago
- Canopy
- Cantilever
- Cape Cod & Cape Dutch
- Capitoline Hill
- Carving
- Castle Elements
- Cathedral
- Church Elements
- City Beautiful Movement
- Cladding
- Classicism
- Climate
- Colonnade
- Colosseum
- Column
- Composite
- Concave / Convex
- Conceptual Sketch
- Constructivism
- Corinthian
- Cornice
- D
- Deconstructivism
- Decorated Period
- Dentil
- De Stijl
- Dome
- Door
- Doric
- Duomo
- E
- Early English Period
- Eaves
- Eclectic
- Edifice
- Egyptian RevivalArchitecture
- Elevation Drawing
- Elizabethan Architecture
- Empire
- Entasis
- Etruscan Architecture
- Exposition Universelle
- F
- Façade
- Fascia
- Faux Château
- Fibonacci Numbers
- Finial
- Fleur-de-lis
- Floor Plans
- Foster, Sir Norman
- Frame
- Fresco
- Frieze
- Functionalism
- G
- Gabion Walls
- Gable
- Gargoyle
- Gaudí, Antonio
- Gazebo
- Gehry, Frank
- Genius Loci
- Geodesic
- Georgian Architecture
- Gingerbread Houses
- Girder
- Golden Section
- Gothic
- Gothic Revival Architecture
- H
- Ha-ha
- Hierarchy
- House Styles
- I
- International Style
- Ionic
- I Quattro Libridell'Architettura
- Ishtar Gate
- Italianate Architecture
- J
- Jones, Inigo
- Jugendstil
- K
- Khan, Louis
- Keystone
- L
- Le Corbusier
- Lintel
- Live Load
- Lloyd Wright, Frank
- Louvre
- M
- Machu Picchu
- Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- Mannerism
- Manueline
- Masterplanning
- Materials
- McMansion
- Memorial
- Messaging
- Metaphor
- Metropolis
- Mezzanine
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
- Minaret
- Minimalism
- Model
- Moderne
- Modernism
- Modular
- Monumentalism
- Moorish Architecture
- Mosaic
- Mudéjar
- N
- Nash, John
- Nazi Architecture
- Neoclassical
- New Town
- Norman Architecture
- North Point
- O
- Oast House
- Obelisk
- Orders
- Organic
- Oriental Style
- Orientation
- P
- Painted Ladies
- Palladian
- Panthéon
- Parthenon
- Partition
- Pei, IM
- Perpendicular
- Perpendicular Period
- Phallic Architecture
- Photomontage
- Piloti
- Pitch
- Place
- Plattenbau
- Portico
- Post-and-lintel Architecture
- Postmodernism
- Prefabricated
- Preferred Numbers
- Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
- Q
- Quadrangle
- Queen Anne Architecture
- R
- Regency Architecture
- Reinforced Concrete
- Religious Architecture
- Renaissance
- Restoration
- Rococo
- Roman Architecture
- Rotunda
- Rubble
- S
- Saltbox House
- Scale
- Sculpture
- Sculpturesque
- Sears Catalog Homes
- Second Empire
- Section Drawing
- Secular Architecture
- Served and Servant Areas
- Shotgun House
- Skyline
- Skyscraper
- Sod House
- Soffit
- Solar Orientation
- Spanish Baroque
- Spire
- Stained Glass
- Stairs
- Stalinist Architecture
- Steel
- Stone
- Storey
- Structure
- Sustainability
- Symmetry
- Synagogue
- T
- Tatlin's Tower
- Tessellation
- Thermopane
- Transom
- Troglodyte Dwellings
- Truss
- Tudor Architecture
- Typology
- U
- Urban Design
- V
- Vector
- Vernacular Architecture
- Viaduct
- Victorian Architecture
- Vitrolite
- Vitruvian Man
- Volute
- W
- Window
- Wood
- Wrapping
- Wren, Sir Christopher
- Z
- Zeitgeist
- Ziggurat
- Zoomorphic
- The Details
- The Timeline
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Synonyms andCross References
- Back Cover
