Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon

This attractive and well‐presented book offers a detailed look at different architectural styles, building types and construction elements. It is a directory of visual images of buildings and parts of buildings, drawing attention to, and naming, their elements (the “lexicon”). The book consists almost entirely of illustrations, some 512 high‐quality coloured photographs and line drawings. They are arranged in three broad chapters: building types (temples, cathedrals, churches, castles, country houses, public buildings, “street‐facing buildings”, modern block and high‐rise buildings); Structures (columns and piers, arches, and modern structures such as concrete, steel and glass buildings) and Architectural Elements (walls and surfaces,...