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Background Information
- Index to Italian Architecture
- Reference NA1111.T4 1992
- Find interiors, exteriors, plans, elevations, and/or sections in other books
- Structurae
- Free web resource, geared toward structural engineering
- Contains detailed information about (predominately European) buildings and other structures
Pictorial Architectural Dictionaries
- Architecture and Ornament: An Illustrated Dictionary
- Reference NA2840.M36 1998
- Illustrations arranged by building part precede the dictionary
- The Grammar of Architecture
- Reference NA200.G75 2002
- Arranged by period, contains glossary
- Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture
- Reference NA31.B83 2002
- Entries are arranged alphabetically, with cross-referenced subdivisions
- Materials, Structures, and Standards: All the Details Architects Need to Know but can Never Find
- Reference NA2540.M43 2006
- Included are tables, charts, diagrams, dimensions, standards, codes and general data useful to architects
- Organized in six chapters
- Contains a cross-referenced guide
- Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon
- Reference NA2840.H66 2012
- Visual guide to architecture
- Includes a glossary and index
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture
- Reference NA7205.C27 1994
- Strictly visual- no glossary of terms
- Arranged chronologically by style/type
- A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
- Reference NA31.C44 1995
- Definitions clustered under thematic entries
- Includes many structural terms