Modules and Lists: Reference books and websites
: Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri (Most topics involved with History)
Reference Section Books
Dictionary of Architecture
Arch Ref NA31.F55 1976
Encyclopedia of Architecture: Design, Engineering & Construction.
(Contains some history & theory on design)
5 vols. Arch Ref NA31.E59 1988
Encyclopedia of World Art
17vols. Arch Ref N31 .E4833
Grove Dictionary of Art [also online]
Arch Ref N31.D5 1996
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
Arch Ref NA687 .P43 2004
Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture.
20th ed. Arch NA200.F63 1996
Visual Dictionary of Architecture / Francis D.K. Ching.
Arch Ref NA31 .C44 1995 (Japanese-English ed. NA31 .C44 1998 )
World Atlas of Architecture.
Arch Oversize NA200.W67 1984
Website Links
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html
Hierarchical vocabulary of about 120,000 terms. 9/06
Artlex: Dictionary of Visual Art
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html
2800 terms. Longer articles on architecture, landscape, etc. 9/06
Classical Architecture Vocabulary, Perseus Encyclopedia
www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Dictionary of Islamic Architecture
http://archnet.org/library/dictionary/
Definitions with links to illustrations. 9/06
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Hierarchical structure of nearly 900,000 places. "The TGN provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a place may also contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes." 9/06
GroveArt Online
http://www.groveart.com/index.html
Pevsner Glossary (Extremely thorough glossary of building types, material, etc.) http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/default.asp?document=2.30 (last accessed May 2007)
Timeline of World Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's timeline allows searching by period and by special topics. Architecture is highlighted for a few periods, such as Renaissance architecture. 9/06
Wikipedia on Architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture
Questions?
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