With over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available. Beautifully illustrated and including an extensive and fully up to date bibliography, it is an invaluable work of reference for students of architecture, landscape architecture, professional architects, and art historians.

Assisted by Wilson, Curl has created a valuable piece of scholarship, and the definitive reference work on architecture and landscape design... The entries are clear and concise, detailed and thoroughly referenced... [It is] an authoritative, reliable, and accurate resource... handsomely produced and well written... It is a delightful read and an indispensable source for students, scholars, practitioners, and the public.

`Anyone seeking a single volume dictionary of architecture... has, in fact, only one choice, and that is Curl. Once you have Curl's dictionary on your shelf, it rapidly becomes indispensable.' C20 The Magazine of the Twentieth Century `The triumph of this volume is Curl's compositions... This is an ambitious work and a successful one, which will find a place in most general and specialist collections.' David Harrison, Reference Reviews `This is an immensely ambitious book...On accuracy, Curl can hardly be faulted. His entries are eminently reliable.' Dan Cruickshank, World Architecture, July/August 1999 `Handsomely demonstrates that a work of reference can be comprehensive and a polished piece of literature in its own right...Delightful touches of irony emerge in entries where the author's preferences peep through without compromising scholarly integrity.' Jennifer Freeman, Building Design, 13.8.99 `splendid...a smasher...you can't have a more concise, entertaining, and informative guide to the words of architecture.' Peter Davey, Architectural Review `The best introduction to a broad understanding and appreciation of architecture is a good dictionary. James Stevens Curl's is one of the best available. [...] Curl's dictionary informs and delights. [...] there is no better source of architectural reference available at the price' Anthony Symondson SJ, Catholic Herald

Contains over 6,000 entries and over 260 illustrations, primarily focusing on architectural history Fully revised and updated, with hundreds of new entries including individuals such as Sir Francis Bacon and Liang Ssu-ch'eng, and many landscape architecture terms, including hortus conclusus and Zen garden-design Comprehensive coverage of architectural, garden, and landscape terms with clear definitions Includes mini-bibliographies for all entries, as well as the fully updated and expanded bibliography at the rear of the book

Professor James Stevens Curl is a leading architectural historian. His many books include Funerary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh (2013); Freemasonry & the Enlightenment: Architecture, Symbols, & Influences (2011-an earlier version of which won (1992) the Sir Banister Fletcher Award as Best Book of the Year); Spas, Wells, & Pleasure-Gardens of London (2010); Victorian Architecture: Diversity & Invention (2007); and The Honourable The Irish Society and the Plantation of Ulster, 1608-2000 (2000). He contributed to, and edited, the scholarly monograph Kensal Green Cemetery: The Origins and Development of the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London, 1824-2001 (2001), the first major study of any nineteenth-century cemetery in the world. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, was twice Visiting Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, and is currently Professor of Architecture at the University of Ulster. Dr Susan Wilson is an historian with an especial interest in garden architecture, landscape aesthetics, and places of commemoration. Her doctorate was conferred (2010) by the University of Bristol for her study of the 'Swiss Garden Cottage: the origins of the châlet-style in British architecture'. She published her early findings in Exercises in Translation: Swiss-British Cultural Exchange (2006). In 2013 she chaired an interdisciplinary conference-session on the Rustic Tradition in Garden Art in New York. She taught the history of the applied and decorative arts at Chelsea College of Art and Design (2000-6), and gained recognition for her teaching practice as a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (2007). She has collaborated with Professor Stevens Curl on this edition of the Dictionary since 2012. Awarded (2012) the Opler Grant for Emerging Scholars by the Society of Architectural Historians (USA), she is also an Academic Member of the Landscape Institute.

Contains over 6,000 entries and over 260 illustrations, primarily focusing on architectural history Fully revised and updated, with hundreds of new entries including individuals such as Sir Francis Bacon and Liang Ssu-ch'eng, and many landscape architecture terms, including hortus conclusus and Zen garden-design Comprehensive coverage of architectural, garden, and landscape terms with clear definitions Includes mini-bibliographies for all entries, as well as the fully updated and expanded bibliography at the rear of the book