World Architecture Index: A Guide to Illustrations

(Hardback)

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This is a reference tool for finding images of approximately 7000 architectural works reproduced in more than 100 books likely to be available in libraries with architectural collections. The index is international in coverage; includes a variety of architectural, engineering, and planning works; and covers most historical periods and styles. Citations to reproductions of exterior and interior views, plans, sections, and elevations are provided, and access is enabled by building site, architect, type of work and name of work indexes. The principal index lists architectural works alphabetically according to specific location. For each work, the following information is provided: name of work, alternate names, date of work, architect(s), and citation information organized according to exterior view, interior view, plan, section, or elevation. The book is aimed at students and scholars of architecture, art history, civil engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning and world history.

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A much-needed index to the illustrations in standard books on world architecture. More than 7,200 architectural works in some 100 books are indexed here by site, architect, architectural type, and by names and alternative names of works. The citations indicate the type of illustration to be found: interior or exterior views, plans, sections, or elevations. Because the majority of the books indexed are from well-known publishers' monographic series, including Abrams's "History of World Architecture" and Braziller's "The Great Ages of World Architecture" and from such standard works as the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Art, sources should be widely available, and this index will be a real time saver for both librarians and scholars. Teague's index has been carefully arranged and thoughtfully produced, printed on paper meeting the Permanent Paper Standard issued by NISO. Highly recommended both for large public and for upper-division undergraduate and university libraries.-Choice
"A much-needed index to the illustrations in standard books on world architecture. More than 7,200 architectural works in some 100 books are indexed here by site, architect, architectural type, and by names and alternative names of works. The citations indicate the type of illustration to be found: interior or exterior views, plans, sections, or elevations. Because the majority of the books indexed are from well-known publishers' monographic series, including Abrams's "History of World Architecture" and Braziller's "The Great Ages of World Architecture" and from such standard works as the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Art, sources should be widely available, and this index will be a real time saver for both librarians and scholars. Teague's index has been carefully arranged and thoughtfully produced, printed on paper meeting the Permanent Paper Standard issued by NISO. Highly recommended both for large public and for upper-division undergraduate and university libraries."-Choice

Author Bio

EDWARD H. TEAGUE is Architecture and Fine Arts Librarian at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is the author of Henry Moore: Bibliography and Reproductions Index and is editor of Art Reference Services Quarterly. He is an active member of the Art Libraries Society of North America.