James Stevens Curl
Over 6,000 entries
‘Splendid... much more perceptive than its recent predecessors... you can't have a more concise, entertaining and informative guide to the words of architecture’ — Architectural Review
The first edition of The Dictionary of Architecture received excellent reviews. Now it has been fully revised, and expanded, bringing it completely up-to-date. There are entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, covering all periods of Western architectural history. Biographies range from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers. New entries include definitions of landscape terms, and biographies of modern architects. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading.
James Stevens Curl is Emeritus Professor of Architectural History and Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University, Leicester.
ISBN-13: 9780198606789
ISBN-10: 0198606788
Publishing history: published 1999, 2006
