- Hardcover: 656 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 4th Revised edition edition (29 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670880175
- ISBN-13: 978-0670880171
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 5.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,314,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture constitutes a complete revision and expansion -- with the addition of the increasingly popular subject of landscape architecture -- of a work that has long been recognized as the standard in its field. Entirely reset and reillustrated, this edition includes many new entries on American architects and architecture. Highly readable, thoroughly cross-referenced, and with bibliographies for further reading, this is an essential reference for architects, students of architecture, and general readers with an interest in the field.
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CLEAT
A batten, brace or clamp of wood or metal fixed to a rafter or other surface to strengthen or support it. It may also be a wedge-shaped piece of wood or metal attached to a surface to prevent it slipping or to act as a support, e.g. for a bracket. In metalwork it is a supporting bracket.
PALISADE
A fence of pales or stakes fixed deeply in the ground in a close row to form a defensive barrier, also a hedge of trees or shrubs. The French spelling palissade is sometimes used to distinguish a hedge clipped to form a green wall, sometimes with arched openings, or a row of trees with bare trunks and the branches pleached to make a dense leafy screen, often found in formal gardens.
EIFFEL, GUSTAV
(1832 - 1923) The French engineer, famous chiefly for the Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Exhibition of 1889. At 308 m. (1,010 ft), the tower was the highest building in the world until the Chrysler and then the Empire State buildings were erected in New York. The Eiffel Tower in its immensely prominent position in the centre of Paris marks the final acceptance of metal, in this case iron, as an architectural medium. Eiffel's iron bridges are technically and visually as important as the Eiffel Tower (Douro, 1876 - 7; Garabit Viaduct, 1880 - 84). He was also engineer to the Bon Marché store in Paris (1876), and to the Statue of Liberty in New York, both of which have remarkable iron interiors.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This small volume offers clear, precise definitions and summaries of architectural terms and styles, numerous simple illustrations, good cross-referencing, and it is written with elegance and candour. As a reference book it is invaluable, and, like all good reference books, leads the reader into exploring topics beyond the original point of enquiry.
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A dictionary is not something you read cover-to-cover. I wanted to expand my hopeless understanding of architecture and bought this on recommendations from other amazon reviewers. It does what it says on the can and is well laid out. A good background book -now what book next I wonder?
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I bought this book last year and have used this for my university coursework and have found it extermely helpful, with explaining technical words and detail. worth buying if you are studing in the built environment because it will you throughout your learning and working life
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