Suggested Readings

Architectural Dictionaries

Bruden, Ernest. Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Bucher, Ward and Christine Madrid, eds. Dictionary of Building Preservation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Carley, Rachel. Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1994.

Ching, Frank. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: Van Nostram Reinhold, 1995.

Crispin, Frederic Swing. Dictionary of Technical Terms. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1942.

Curl, James Stevens. Dictionary of Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Harris, Cyril, ed. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

———. Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975 (revised in 1993 and 2000).

——— . Historic Architecture Sourcebook. New York: McGraw Hill, 1977.

———. Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture. New York: Dover, 1983.

Maliszewski-Pickart, Margaret. Architecture and Ornament: An Illustrated Dictionary. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.

Pevsner, Nikolas, John Fleming, and Hugh Honour, The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1976.

Phillips, Stephen. Old House Dictionary. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1994.

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