Main entry:

Hunt, William Dudley.

Title & Author:

Encyclopedia of American architecture / William Dudley Hunt, Jr.

Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, ©1980.

Description:

x, 612 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Airport -- Aluminum -- Apartment -- Arch -- Architecture -- Art in architecture -- Association, business industry -- bacon, Henry -- Bank -- Bauhaus, Statliches (state building school) -- Beaux arts, École de -- Belluschi, Pietro -- Bogardus, James -- Book, architectural -- Botanical building -- Breuer, Marcel Lajos -- Brick -- Bridge -- Buckland, William -- Building codes and standards -- Building industry -- Building trade -- Bulfinch, Charles -- Burnham and Root -- Capital, United States -- Career -- Carpenters' Company -- Ceiling -- Classic revival architecture -- Climate -- College and university building -- Colonial architecture -- Column -- Communication system -- Complex, architectural -- Computer -- Concrete -- Concrete structure -- Construction, building -- Construction contract administration -- Construction materials -- Contemporary architecture -- Copper alloy -- Cost control -- Cram, Goodhue and Furguson -- Cret, Paul Philippe -- Criticism, architecture -- Dam -- Design, architectural -- Dome -- Door -- Drafting -- Earthquake protection -- Eclectic architecture -- Ecology -- Education -- Electrical engineering -- Electric power and wiring -- Energy -- Engineering -- Environmental protection -- Esthetics -- Exposition -- Factory -- Farm building -- Feasibility study -- Finance -- Fireplace -- Fire protection -- Floor -- Foundation -- Fountain -- Fuller, Richard Buckminster -- Furness, Frank -- Furniture -- Garage -- Garden -- Georgian architecture -- Gilbert, Cass -- Gill, Irving John -- Glass -- Gothic revival architecture -- Government -- Graphic design -- Greene and Greene -- Gropius, Walter Adolf -- Handicapped, facilities for the -- Hardware -- Harrison, Peter -- Harrison, Wallace Kirkman -- Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning -- History of architecture.
Holabird and Roche -- Hood, Raymond Mathewson -- Hospital -- Hotel -- House -- Housing -- Hunt, Richard Morris -- Insect protection -- Insulation, thermal -- Interior design -- Iron -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jenney, William Le Baron -- Johnson, Philip Cortelyou -- Kahn, Albert -- Kahn, Louis Isadore -- Laboratory -- Landscape architecture -- Latrobe, Benjamin Henry -- Library -- Lighting -- Lightning protection -- Magazine, architectural -- Masonry structure -- Maybeck, Bernard -- McIntire, Samuel -- McKim, Mead and White -- Measurement -- Mechanical engineering -- Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig -- Military building -- Mills, Robert -- Model making -- Modern architecture -- Molding -- Monument -- Museum -- Neutra, Richard Joseph -- Office building -- Olmsted, Frederick Law -- Ornament -- Paint -- Park -- Photography, architectural -- Planning, city -- Plastics -- Plumbing -- Pope, John Russell -- Post, George Browne -- Practice of architecture -- Pre-Columbian architecture -- Prefarication -- Preservation -- Prison -- Programming -- Public building -- Railway station -- Real estate -- Recreation building -- Religious building -- Remodeling -- Rendering -- Renwick, James, jr. -- Restaurant -- Richardson, Henry Hobson -- Road and traffic design -- Roof -- Roofing -- Saarinen, Eero -- Saarinen, Eliel -- School -- Security systems -- Shopping center -- Site planning -- Skidmore, Owings and Merrill -- Social science -- Sound control -- Specification -- Stair -- Steel -- Steel structure -- Stein, Clarence S. -- Stone, Edward Durell -- Stone -- Store -- Strickland, William -- Structural engineering -- Structure -- Sullivan, Louis Henri -- Surveying -- Theater -- Thorton, William -- Tile -- Upjohn, Richard -- Vault -- Vertical transportation -- Wall -- Walter, Thomas Ustick -- Warehouse -- Waterproofing -- Weather protection -- Window -- Wood -- Wood-frame structure -- Woodwork -- Working drawing -- Wright, Frank Lloyd -- Wurster, William Wilson -- Yamasaki, Minoru -- Zoological building -- Index.

Summary:

Contains 202 articles describing the major elements of American achitecture. Includes building types, systems, materials, structures, and periods in architecture.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0070312990
9780070312999

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Architecture Dictionaries United States.
Architecture États-Unis Dictionnaires anglais.
Architecture Dictionaries.
Wörterbuch
Architektur
Architecture, American Dictionaries.
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

Dictionary
dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 74642
Call No.: ID 0000856 NA705.H86; ID:86-B12904
Status: Available