Dover Architecture Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture, (Paperback)

from Wolcott37

Reading older literary descriptions often send me to the dictionary. When a building or a room is described, writers will use the proper term for a feature, such as an encarpus to describe something. What's an encarpus? My dictionary says "an ornament on a frieze or capital consisting of festoons...

from Baughns

With its definitions and fabulous line drawings to illustrate, this book sits on my desk as my go-to reference for all architectural words and concepts.

from Wolcott37

Reading older literary descriptions often send me to the dictionary. When a building or a room is described, writers will use the proper term for a feature, such as an encarpus to describe something. What's an encarpus? My dictionary says "an ornament on a frieze or capital consisting of festoons...

from Baughns

With its definitions and fabulous line drawings to illustrate, this book sits on my desk as my go-to reference for all architectural words and concepts.