Dictionary of Architecture, The Penguin Fifth Edition

by Pevsner, Nikolaus; Fleming, John; Honour, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780670880171
• ISBN10: 0670880175
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

For more than thirty years, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture has been a standard work of reference.
Encyclopedic in breadth, it describes key individuals, styles, movements, materials, and terms from Aalto to Zakharov, from the Acropolis to ziggurats. Major entries range up to several pages in length and include cross references and bibliographies for further reading.
Now renamed The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, this new edition has been completely reworked by John Fleming and Hugh Honour. All entries have been updated as necessary, many new ones have been written, and much greater prominence has now been given to landscape architecture, one of the most dynamic and important growth fields of recent years.

Author Biography

Nikolaus Pevsner was Slade Professor of Fine Art and a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1959 he became professor of the history of art at Birkbeck College, University of London, and he remained there until his retirement in 1969, when he became emeritus professor.