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Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The text is complemented by over 260 beautiful and meticulous line drawings, labelled cross-sections, and diagrams. These include precise drawings of typical building features, making it easy for readers to identify particular period styles.This third edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture has been extensively revised and expanded, with over 900 new entries including hundreds of definitions of garden and landscape terms such as Baroque garden, floral clock, hortus conclusus, and Zen garden-design. Each entry is followed by a mini-bibliography, with suggestions for further reading. With clear descriptions providing in-depth analysis, it is invaluable for students, professional architects, art historians, and anyone interested in architecture and garden design, and provides a fascinating wealth of information for the general reader.
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- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Original language: English, German
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.40" h x 2.50" w x 9.30" l, 3.57 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 1104 pages
The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (Oxford Paperback Reference), by James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson Review "Curl and Wilson's offering and its online version are highly recommended for breadth, conciseness, clarity, and intelligent organization."-- R.T. Clement, CHOICE
About the Author James Stevens Curl is a leading architectural historian. His many books include Funerary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (2013); Freemasonry & the Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols, & Influences (2011-an earlier version of which won (1992) the Sir Banister Fletcher Award as Best Book of the Year); Spas, Wells, & Pleasure-Gardens of London (2010); Victorian Architecture: Diversity & Invention (2007); and The Honourable The Irish Society and the Plantation of Ulster, 1608-2000 (2000). He contributed to, and edited, the scholarly monograph Kensal Green Cemetery: The Origins and Development of the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London, 1824-2001 (2001), the first major study of any nineteenth-century cemetery in the world. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, was twice Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, and is currently Professor of Architecture at the University of Ulster.Susan Wilson is an historian with an especial interest in garden architecture, landscape aesthetics, and places of commemoration. Her doctorate was conferred (2010) by the University of Bristol for her study of the 'Swiss Garden Cottage: the origins of the chalet-style in British architecture'. She published her early findings in Exercises in Translation: Swiss-British Cultural Exchange (2006). In 2013 she chaired an interdisciplinary conference-session on the Rustic Tradition in Garden Art in New York. She taught the history of the applied and decorative arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design (2000-6), and gained recognition for her teaching practice as a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (2007). She has collaborated with Professor Stevens Curl on this edition of the Dictionary since 2012. Awarded (2012) the Opler Grant for Emerging Scholars by the Society of Architectural Historians (USA), she is also an Academic Member of the Landscape Institute.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Definitive Source By A Reader A dictionary with personality is a rare thing today, when bland collaborative work is usually the only way to deal with the deluge of information. With this third edition, Professor Curl keeps his one-man show on the road in triumphal style. The major additions since the second edition of 2006 are nearly 500 articles on landscape architecture by Dr. Susan Wilson (now acknowledged as co-author) and the restoration of the Bibliography from the first edition, expanded to over 3000 entries. The result is a book at the comfortable limit of the readable (as opposed to the merely consultable), with Curl’s familiar clarity of description, exquisite line and stipple drawings, and defense of architecture as a sacred trust for the humans who are obliged to inhabit it.Like any good Dictionary, this one draws the reader into random and potentially endless wandering. For instance, I was intrigued by mention on the front flap of a ‘battle garden’, and discovered that one Irish example was made as “a talisman to keep the Turks at bay: it succeeded.” A reference there to ‘horn-work’ educated me on the difference between cat’s ear, lion’s ear, dog’s ear, and ass’s ear horns. A glimpse of nearby Victor Horta had me flipping back to Art Nouveau and Art Deco, with a radiant drawing of the Hoover Factory entrance; to Artisan Mannerism (“which some commentators have found refreshing and others distressing”) and so on to Mannerism, by way of a long detour on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.Professor Curl’s once unfashionable, anti-Modernist stance is now almost mainstream, as many would agree with his devastating understatement on Walter Gropius: “the environments created as a result of his influence have not proved to be either agreeable or functional.” While this edition excludes entries on living architects, Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and their kind get their come-uppance under ‘Deconstructivism or Deconstructionism’. However, such judgments are embedded in information as copious and impartial as one could wish. There are also new friends, for instance in the much-expanded article on ‘New Classicism’. My only regret is that there are no entries on buildings (except the Pantheon). Should I want to know who were the architects of the Empire State Building or Schloss Neuschwanstein, I would have to look on the Internet, which threatens to make all paper reference works redundant. This Dictionary more than justifies its medium, for beside the obvious advantage that one can trust all its facts, dates, and sources, it has the feeling of a real communication from mind to mind.
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