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Title Statement A dictionary of architecture
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Containing over 5,000 entries from Aalto to ziggurat, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of architecture in paperback. Beautifully illustrated and written in a clear and concise style, it is an invaluable work of reference for both students of architecture and the general reader, as well as professional architects. Covers all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day Concise biographies of leading architects, from Brunelleschi and Imhotep to Le Corbusier and Richard Rogers Over 250 illustrations specially drawn for this volume
Sample entries:baluster-side - Form like a rolled-up mattress, like a baluster laid on itsside, also known as a bolster, cushion, pulvin, or pulvinus, joining the volutes of an Ionic capital.Doshi, Balkrishna Vithaldas (b. 1927) Indian architect, designer of the Centrefor Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad (196781), one of the mostsuccessful Modernist buildings of its time in the Subcontinent Influenced byLe *Corbusier (with whom he worked), his own studio at Sangath, Ahmedabad(197981), and the Gandhi Institute of Labour Studies, Ahmedabad (19804), showedhis debt to the Franco-Swiss architect