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Reference Sources

Selected Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Bibliographies

Multi-Language

Dictionary of environmental protection = dictionnaire de la protection de l'environnement = Fachworterbuch zum Umweltschutz 3 vols. / by Otto E. Tutzauer and Ingrid M. Tutzauer. Cologne : Heymanns, 1979.
  Ref TD173.T87x

Elsevier's Dictionary of Architecture in Five Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, and Dutch. Amsterdam, NY: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1988.
  Ref NA31.E56 1988

Elsevier's dictionary of building tools and materials in five languages : English/American, French, Spanish, German and Dutch / compiled by L.Y. Chaballe and J.-P. Vandenberghe. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., 1982.
  Ref TH915.E47x 1982

Elsevier's dictionary of civil engineering : in four languages-English, German, Spanish, and French / compiled by Marcos F. Gutiérrez. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1991.
  Ref TA9.G87 1991

Elsevier's dictionary of physical planning : in six languages, English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, and Swedish / compiled by Gordon Logie. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier ; New York, NY, U.S.A. : Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1989.
  Ref HT166.L62 1989

Glossario di Urbanistica = Stadtplanungsglossar = Glosario de Urbanismo = Town Planning Glossary = Glossaire d'Urbanisme / Marco Venturi. Venezia : Arsenale, c1990.
  Ref HT108.5 .V46x

International Dictionary of Building Construction. English, French, German, Italian. Civil Engineering, architecture, hydraulics. Milano, Technoprint International; New York, London, Dusseldorf, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Paris, Dunod, 1972.
  Ref TH 9 C 118

Lexicon, Landschafts- und Stadtplanung : Mehrsprachiges Wörterbuch über Planung, Gestaltung und Schutz der Umwelt / bearbeitet von der IFLA-Arbeitsgruppe Übersetzung technischer Begriffe = Dictionary: landscape and urban planning : multilingual dictionary of environmmental planning, design and conservation ; compiled by the IFLA Committee Translation of Technical Terms ; Klaus-Jr¨gen Evert (Hrsg.) Published : Berlin : London : Springer, c2001.
  Ref SB469 .L49 2001

The Multilingual dictionary of Architecture and Building Terms / Chris Grech, ed. London and New York: E & FN Spon, 1998. In German, Spanish, French, and Italian.
  Ref NA31.M84 1998

Städte : Stadtpläne, Plätze, Strassen, Brücken : systematisches Fachwörterbuch = Villes : plans, places, voies, ponts : dictionnaire spécialisé et systématique = Towns : plans, squares, roads, bridges : specialized and systematic dictionary / [Herausgeber], Comité international d'histoire de l'art. München ; New York : K.G. Saur, 1987.
  Ref HT108.5.S73x

Arabic (English-Arabic only)

The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1972.
  Ref PJ6640.O93

A New Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms : English-Arabic, with illustrations / compiled and edited by Ahmed Sh. al-Khatib. 2d ed. Beirut : Librairie du Liban, 1974.
  Ref PJ6640.A44x

Catalan

Nou Diccionari Angles, Catala, Catala-Angles 4th ed. / Jordi Colomer. Barcelona: Portic, 1987.
  Ref PC3891.C62 1987

Chinese

A concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary. 2nd ed. Hong Kong : Oxford University Press : Commercial Press, 1999.
  Ref PL1455.C44 1999

English-Chinese Glossary of Terms in housing, urban planning, and construction management=Chu fang ching shih kuei hua yu chien chu kuan li tz'u hui. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; Beijing: People's Rupublic of China, Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection, 1987.
  Ref TH9.E54x 1987

Environment management technology : a glossary of modern terminology, English-Chinese/Chinese-English / by Gottfried Eigenmann ; translated by Lu Fu-run = Huan ching kuan li k o chi tz u hui / G. Ai-keng-man chu ; Lü Fu-jun i. Simplified Chinese characters ed. Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press ; Beijing : Novartis China Country Organization, c1997.
  Ref GE15.E57 1997

The Oxford-Duden pictorial Chinese & English dictionary. Hong Kong ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
  Ref PL1423.O94

A practical English-Chinese pronouncing dictionary : English, Chinese characters, Romanized Mandarin and Cantonese.
  Ref PL1455.C579

Czech

Czech-English Dictionary=Nový Kapesní Slovník Anglicko-Ceský Cesko-Anglický/ Alois Cermák. New York: Saphrograph, 1963.
  Ref PG4640 C45 1963

Danish

Danish dictionary : English-Danish, Danish-English / edited by Anna Garde ; additional material by W. Glyn Jones. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 [reprinted 1999]
  Ref PD3640.D36 1995

Dutch

Dutch dictionary : Dutch-English, English-Dutch / Fernand G. Renier. London [England] ; New York : Routledge, 1989.
  Ref PF640.R4

Dutch-English and English-Dutch Dictionary. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
  Ref PF640.R4x 1966

Finnish

Suomalais-Englantilainen Sanakirja=Finnish-English dictionary / Compiled by Severi Alanne. Superior, Wisconsin: Tyomies, 1919.
  Ref PH279.A6 1919

French

Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française {Le Petit Robert} / par Paul Robert ; rédaction dirigée par A. Rey et J. Rey-Debove. Paris : Société du Nouveau Littré, 1977.
  Ref PC2625.R553 1977

Dictionary of building and civil engineering = Dictionnaire du bâtiment et du génie civil / Don Montague. Edition : 1st ed. Published : London : E & FN Spon, 1996.
  Ref TH9 .M66x

The Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French / edited by Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; [Paris] : Hachette Livre, 1994.
  Ref PC2640.O94x

Dictionnaire de la Construction: Français-Anglais; Anglais-Français=Dictionary of Building Terms: French-English; English-French / Basil Butterworth. New York: Construction Press, 1981.
  Ref TH9.B88x 1981

Dictionnaire d'Architecture et de Construction: Français; Anglais-Français=Dictionary of Architecture and Construction, French/English and English/French / J.R. Forbes. Paris: Lavoiser, c1984.
  Ref NA31.F67 1984

Elsevier's Dictionary of Building Construction. French-English. New York: Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988.
  Ref TH9.M23 1988

Les mots de la maison : vocabulaire francais, anglais, allemand de l'acquisition, de la construction et de la restauration. Paris : Eyrolles, 1995.
  Ref TH9.B76x

German

Cassell's German-English, English-German dictionary = Deutsch-englisches, englisch-deutsches Wörterbuch / completely revised by Harold T. Betteridge. 1st Macmillan rev. ed. London : Cassell ; New York : Macmillan, 1978.
  Ref PF3640.B453 1978

The Oxford Duden German Dictionary : German-English, English-German / edited by the Dudenredaktion and the German Section of the Oxford University Press Dictionary Department ; chief editors, W. Scholze-Stubenrecht, J.B. Sykes. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,1990.
  Ref PF3640.O94 1990

Bautechnisches Englisch im Bild=Illustrated Technical German for Builders / W.K. Killer. Wisbaden: Bauverlag, 1973.
  Ref TH 9 K555 1973

Dictionary of architecture and building, English-German / compiled by Uli Gelbrich. Published : Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier ; New York, NY : Distributors for the U.S. and Canada Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1989.
  Ref NA31 .D54x

Städte : Stadtpläne, Plätze, Strassen, Brücken : systematisches Fachwörterbuch = Villes : plans, places, voies, ponts : dictionnaire spécialisé et systématique = Towns : plans, squares, roads, bridges : specialized and systematic dictionary / [Herausgeber], Comité international d’histoire de l’art. Published : München ; New York : K.G. Saur, 1987.
  Ref HT108.5 .S73x

Worterbuch fur Architektur, Hochbau und Baustoffe=Dictionary of Architecture, Building Construction and Materials 2 vols. / Herbert Bucksch. Wiesbaden: Bauverlag, 1974-1976.
  Ref NA31.B8 1974

Greek

A Greek-English Lexicon / Henry George Liddell. A Classical Greek dictionary, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie and with the co-operation of many scholars. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
  Ref PA445.E5 G84x

Lexiko Angloelleniko: ste Neoellenike, Demotike Glossa / Chares Patses. Athenai: Orgnismos Enkyklopaidikon Ekdoseon, c1974. Modern English-Greek.
  Ref PA1139.E5 P36x

Lexiko Helleno-Angliko: ste Neoellenike, Demotike Glossa. Athenai: Organismos Enkuklopaidikon Ekdoseon, c1967. Modern Greek-English Dicionary.
  Ref PA1139.E5 P37x

Hungarian

English-Hungarian, Hungarian-English Dictionary ; Lajos Pal Biro, Jozsef Willer, and Sandor Fest. Brooklyn, NY: K.P. Schick, 1957.
  Ref PH2640.B5 1957

Italian

Cassell's Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian. NY: Macmillan, c1958, 1984 printing.
  Ref PC1640.C33x

Grande Dizionario Inglese-Italiano, Italiano-Inglese. 30a ed. Milano: Garzanti, 1982.
  Ref PC1640.H35x

Japanese

The Kanji Dictionary / Mark Spahn Wolfgang and Hadamitzky with Kumkiko Fujie-Winter. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle, 1996.
  Ref PL677.5.S625 1996

The Oxford-Duden pictorial Japanese & English dictionary. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
  Ref PL676.O9 1997

Korean

Essensu Han-Yong sajon = Minjung’s essence Korean-English dictionary / Minjung Sorim P'yonjipkuk p'yon. Edition : Che 3-p'an. Published : Soul T'ukpyolsi : Minjung Sorim, 1996.
  Ref PL937.E5 E782 1996

A Korean-English Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
  Ref PL937.E5 M3x

NTC's compact Korean and English dictionary / [edited by] B.J. Jones, Gene S. Rhie. Lincolnwood, Ill. : National Textbook Co., c1995.
  Ref PL937.E5 N15 1995

Latin

Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin. London: Cassell; NY: Macmillan, 1977.
  Ref PA2365.E5 C3 1977
Gardener's Latin: a Lexicon. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992.
  Ref QK9.N42x

Norwegian

Norwegian dictionary : Norwegian-English, English-Norwegian ; with a supplement by Kari Bråtveit. 2nd. ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
  Ref PD2691.N58 1994

Polish

English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionary=Slownik Angielsko-Polska, Polska-Angielska. [NY: Saphrograph, s.d.].
  Ref PG6640.S5 1956

Portuguese

Collins English-Portuguese, Português-Inglês dictionary / John Whitlam, Vitoria Davies, Mike Harland. Edition : 2nd ed. Published : Glasgow ; New York : Collins, c2001.
  Ref PC5333 .W45 2001

Romanian

Dictionar Romin-Englez=Rumanian English Dictionary / Serban Andronescu. NY: Saphrograph, 1964.
  Ref PC779.A6 1964

Russian

The Oxford Russian Dictionary / English-Russian, edited by Paul Falla ; Russian-English, edited by Marcus Wheeler and Boris Unbegaun. Rev. and updated throughout / by Colin Howlett. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1993]
  Ref PG2640.W5 1994
Slovar' terminov arkhitektury / E. S. I U supov. Published : Sankt-Peterburg : Fond "Leningradskaia Galereia", 1994.
  Ref NA31 .I87x
Terminy rossiiskogo arkhitekturnogo naslediia : slovar'-glossarii ; "drawings by the author" / V. I. Pluzhnikov. Published : Moskva : "Iskusstvo", 1995.
  Ref NA31 .P68x

Serbo-Croatian

Croato-Serbian-English Dictionary = Hrvatskos Rpsko-Engleski Rjecnik, 3rd ed. Zagreb: Skolska Knjiga, 1970.
  Ref PG1377.D73 1970

Slovenian

Slovensko-Angleski Slovar. Ljubljana: Drzavna Zalozba Slovenije, 1972.
  Ref PG1891.K6x 1972

Spanish

The Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English / English-Spanish. NY: Oxford University Press, 1994.
  Ref PC4640.O84 1994

Constructionary : English-Spanish : up-to-date construction words and phrases. Published : New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001.
  Ref TH9 .C59 2001

Diccionario Tematico de Arquitectura Urbanismo y Construccion Espanol/Ingles / Carmen Menendez Martinez and Isabel Salto-Weis Azevedo. Madrid: OMAGRAF, S.L., 1992.
  Ref NA31.M46x

Means Spanish/English construction dictionary : an essential tool on the job site and in the office / edited by Danielle Georges. Published : Kingston, MA : R.S. Means, c2000.
  Ref TH9 .M42 2000

Vocabulario Arquitectónico Ilustrado.1. ed. México : Secretaría del Patrimonio Nacional, 1975.
  Ref NA31 V851

Swedish

NTC's compact Swedish and English dictionary. Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC Pub. Group, c1997.
  Ref PD5640.N65 1997

Prisma’s English-Swedish dictionary. Edition : 3rd ed. Published : Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
  Ref PD5640 .P69 1997

 

Turkish

A Turkish-English Dictionary / by H.C. Hony, with the advice of Fahir Iz. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1957.
  Ref PL191.H6 1957

Dictionary : architecture + building : English, French, Turkish = Dictionnaire : architecture + bâtiment : français, anglais, turc = Sözlük : mimarlik + yapi terimleri : Türkçe, Ingilizce, Fransizca / Dogan Hasol. Published : Harbiye, Istanbul : Yem Yayin, c1993.
  Ref NA31 .H362 1993

Encyclopedias and Guides

French

Archives d'Architecture du XXe Siècle. Liège : Mardaga, 1991. 510 p. : ill.
  Ref NA40.A73x

Art and architecture in Canada : a Bibliography and Guide to the Literature to 1981 = Art et Architecture au Canada : Bibliographie et guide de la documentation jusqu'en 1981 2 vols. / Loren R. Lerner & Mary F. Williamson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1991.
  Ref Z5961.C3 L47x

L'art de l'ingénieur : constructeur,entrepreneur, inventeur / sous la direction d'Antoine Picon. Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou : Le Moniteur, c1997.
  Ref TA9.A771997

Dictionnaire des architectes / préface de Michel Ragon ; introduction de Françoise Choay. Published : Paris : Encyclopaedia Universalis : Albin Michel, c1999.
  Ref NA40 .D53 1999

Dictionnaire des Architectes / Bernard Oudin. Paris : Seghers, c1994.
  Ref NA40.O85 1994

Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris / sous la direction de Jean Colson et Marie-Christine Lauroa ; introduction de Laure Beaumont- Maillet. Paris : Editions Hervas, c1992.
  Ref NA31 D53x

Le mobilier du XXe siecle : dictionnaire des createurs / Pierre Kjellberg, avec la collaboration de Guillemette Deleporte pour la periode contemporaine. Paris : Editions de l'amateur, c1994.
  Ref NK2205.K54x

German

Architektenlexikon der Schweiz : 19./20. Jahrhundert / Isabelle Rucki/Dorothee Huber (Hrsg). Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 1998.
  Ref NA1352.A72 1998

BDA Handbuch. Bund Deutscher Architekten, Bonn, 1997.
  Ref NA60.G3 B86x 2000/2001

Das Baudenkmal : Denkmalschutz und Denkmalpflege = Le monument historique : protection et conservation des monuments historiques = The historic monument : protection and preservation of historic monuments. 2., überarb. und erw. Aufl. München : K.G. Saur, c1994.
  Ref NA105.B29x 1994

Grüne Biographien : Biographisches Handbuch zur Landschaftsarchitektur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland / Gert Gröning, Joachim WolschkeBulmahn. Berlin : Patzer, 1997.
  Ref SB469.9.G76 1997

Italian

Architettura del XX secolo / prolusioni di Maria Antonietta Crippa ... [et al.] ; quadro cronologico di Maria Antonietta Crippa, Corrado Gavinelli, Mirella Loik ; dizionario a cura di Maria Antonietta Crippa. 1. ed. italiana. Milano : Jaca Book, 1993.
  Ref NA680.A824x

Dizionario enciclopedico di architettura e urbanistica. Diretto da Paolo Portoghesi. [Roma], Ist. editoriale romano, [1968]-69 6 vols. illus.
  Ref NA31 P838

Enciclopedia dell'architettura Garzanti. Milano : Garzanti, 1996.
  Ref NA31.E49 1996

Spanish

Arquitectura de España = Architecture of Spain : 1929-1996 / Carlos Flores, Xavier Güell. Barcelona : Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, 1996.
  Ref NA1308.F561x

Enciclopedia de Arquitectura Plazola 6 vols. / Alfredo Plazola Cisneros; coautores, Alfredo Plazola Anguiano y Guillermo Plazola Anguiano. Estado de México : Plazola Editores, 1994-<1996>.
  Ref NA31.P626 1994