Grouped by themes, such as history, systems, structures, forms, construction, environmental issues, and behavior, all terms have their visual complement and can be readily accessed in a number of different ways. Visual Dictionary of Architecture is a remarkable, on-of-a-kind compendium which uses a combination of textual definitions and hundreds of superb line drawings to illuminate a comprehensive body of essential terms in architecture, including important interrelationships between building components. By grouping terms under such technology such broad concepts as design, hardware, history, ornament and structure. In this unique visual dictionary of architect's the author abandons the alphabet, instead clustering terms around 68 basic aspects of architectural design, history, and technology.
