Architecture Bibliography

Getting Started

Listed here are basic and introductory reference sources to get you started in your research. All of these items are in the Art & Architecture Reading Room and are available whenever the room is open. Using these resources you will be able to further develop and refine your research project.

Encyclopedias/Dictionaries

• Curl, James Stevens. Classical Architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms . London: B.T. Batsford, 1992. (call no. *R-ART NA260 .C87 1992)
• Encyclopedia of American Architecture . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980. (call no. *R-ART NA705 .H86 1980)
• Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. (call no. *R-ART NA208 .E53 1997)
• Encyclopedia of 20th century Architecture . New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. (call no. *R-ART NA680 .E495 2004)
• International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture . Detroit: St. James Press, 1993. (call no. *R-ART Desk NA40 .I48 1993)
• The Visual Dictionary of Buildings. London; New York: Dorling Kindersley, c1992. (call no. *R-ART NA31 .V57 1992)

Biographical Dictionaries

• Contemporary Architects. New York: St. James Press, c1994. (call no. *R-ART Desk NA680 .C625 1994)
• Macmillan Encyclopedia of architects. New York: Free Press, c 1982. (call no. *R-ART NA40 .M25 1982)
• Withey, Henry F. Biographical Dictionary of American Architects Deceased. Los Angeles: New Age Pub. Co., 1956. (call no. *R-ART Desk NA736 .W5 1956)

New York City

• AIA Guide to New York City. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. (call no. *R-ART NA735 .N5 A78 2010)
• Reed, Henry Hope. The New York Public Library: its architecture and decoration. New York: Norton, 1986. (call no. *R-ART Z733 .N43 1986)
• Stern, Robert A.M. New York 1900: metropolitan architecture and urbanism, 1890-1915. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. (call no. *R-ART Desk NA735.N5 S73 1983)

Surveys and Styles

• Alex, William. Japanese Architecture. New York: Braziller, 1963. (call no. *R-ART NA1550 .A75 1963)
• Blunt, Anthony. Baroque & Rococo: architecture & decoration. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. (call no. *R-ART NA590 .B37 1978)
• Clevenot, Dominique. Ornament & Decoration in Islamic Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. (call no. *R-ART NA380 .D5713 2000)
• Dinsmoor, William Bell. The Architecture of Ancient Greece: an account of its historic development. New York: Norton, 1975. (call no. *R-ART NA270 .D5 1975)
• Fletcher, Banister, Sir. History of Architecture. Oxford; Boston: Architectural Press, 1996. (call no. *R-ART Desk NA200 .F63 1996)
• Grodecki, Louis. Gothic Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1977. (call no. *R-ART NA480 .G7613 1977)
• Kuban, Dogan. Ottoman Architecture. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2010. (call no. *R-ART NA1364 .K8313 2010)
• Liu, Laurence G. Chinese Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1989. (call no. *R-ART NA1540 .L57 1989)
• Lotz, Wolfgang. Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. (call no. *R-ART NA1115 .L666 1995)
• Mignot, Claude. Architecture of the 19th Century in Europe. New York: Rizzoli, 1984. (call no. *R-ART NA957 .M5313 1984)
• Ornament & Decoration in Islamic Architecture. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000. (call no. *R-ART NA380 .D5713 2000)
• Summerson, John Newenham. The Architecture of the Eighteen Century. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1986. (call no. *R-ART NA956 .S86 1986)
• Trachtenberg, Marvin. Architecture, from Prehistory to Postmodernity. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2002. (call no. *R-ART NA200 .T7 2002)
• Ward-Perkins, J.B. Roman Architecture. London: Faber and Faber; Milan: Electa, 1988, c1979. (call no. *R-ART NA310 .W32 1988)

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