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The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Fifth Edition Paperback - 2000

by John Fleming; Hugh Honour; Nikolaus Pevsner


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This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the authors have broadened the book by including many new entries on landscape architecture as well as by significantly increasing their treatment of American architects and architecture. This is a highly readable work, worldwide in scope, covering architecture from ancient times to the present. Major entries on key individuals, styles, movements, materials, and terms range up to several pages in length and include cross references and bibliographies for further reading. This is an essential addition to the reference shelf of every architectural student and buff.

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This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the authors have broadened the book by including many new entries on landscape architecture as well as by significantly increasing their treatment of American architects and architecture. This is a highly readable work, worldwide in scope, covering architecture from ancient times to the present. Major entries on key individuals, styles, movements, materials, and terms range up to several pages in length and include cross references and bibliographies for further reading. This is an essential addition to the reference shelf of every architectural student and buff.

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  • Title The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Fifth Edition
  • Author John Fleming; Hugh Honour; Nikolaus Pevsner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Fifth
  • Pages 656
  • Volumes 5
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, London
  • Date February 28, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780140513233 / 014051323X
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.74 x 5.06 x 1.24 in (19.66 x 12.85 x 3.15 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture, Landscape architecture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00267917
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.3

About the author

John Fleming was a British art historian known for his writing partnership with Hugh Honour. His book, Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh and Rome, won the Bannister Fletcher Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medal. He lived with Honour in Italy for most of his life, and died in 2001. Hugh Honour was a British art historian. He was elected in 1972 as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature due to his fruitful career as a writer, often working with his life partner, John Fleming. He died in 2016. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German and British scholar of the history of architecture. A dedicated cataloger of the architecture of Britain, he was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a fellow of the British Academy, as well as the recipient of a CBE and a knighthood. He died in 1983.
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