CONTENTS Prologue How to get the most out of this book 4 Introduction 6 The Dictionary 16 A Acoustics 18 Alessi 19 Anthropometries 20 Applied Texture 21 Arch 22 Archigram 23 Architectural Promenade 24 Architecture 25 Architrave 26 Art Deco 27 Art Nouveau 28 Arts and Crafts 29 Atkinson, Robert 30 Atrium 31 Avant-Garde 32 B Balustrade 33 Banister 34 B.aroque 35 Bauhaus 36 Bay 37 Beam 38 BIDA and ASID 39 Branding 40 Brutalism 41 Building 42 Building and Planning 43 Regulations Byzantine 44 C Canali, Guido 45 Cantilever 46 Casson Mann 47 Ceiling 48 Chair 49 Circulation 50 Cladding 51 Classical 52 Climate 53 Coates, Nigel 54 Colombo, Joe 55 Colour 56 Column 57 Conran, Terence 58 Conservation 59 Constructivism 60 Context 61 Cooling 62 Cornice 63 Corridor 64 Counterpoint 65 Coving 66 Crawford, Use 67 Curious Boym 68 Curtains 69 D Deconstruction 70 Design 71 De Stijl 72 Detail 73 Diller Scofldio + Renfro 74 Disability Legislation 75 Dome 76 Domestic 77 Donald, Stephen 78 Door 79 Drainage 80 Drawing 81 Droog Design 82 Duchamp, Marcel 83 Dwelling 84 E Eames, Charles and Ray 85 Edge 86 Edwardian 87 Element 88 Elevation 89 Enfilade 90 Engineering: Civil 91 Engineering: Electrical 92 Engineering : Mechanical 93 Engineering : Structural 94 Environmental Control 95 Ergonomics 96 Ethics 97 Exhibition Design 98 F Facade 99 FAT 100 Floor 1O1 Floor Covering 102 Form 103 Formalism 104 Form Follows Form 105 Form Follows Function 106 Found Texture 107 Framing 108 Free Plan 109 Fresco 110 Frieze 111 Function 112 Furniture 113 G Gensler 114 Geometry 115 Gesamtkunstwerk 116 Golden Section 117 Gothic Revival 118 Graphic Design 119 Gray, Eileen 120 Guixe, Marti 121 H Heating 122 Hejduk, John 123 Hierarchy 124 History 125 Holl, Steven 126 Hyper-Reality 127 I Insertion 128 Installation 129 Interior Architecture 130 Interior Decoration 131 Interior Design 132 Interior Education 133 International Style 134 Intervention 135 J Jekyll, Gertrude 136 Jificna, Eva 137 Judd, Donald 138 K Kelly, Ben 139 Klein Dytham Architecture 140 Klein, Yves 141 Koolhaas, Rem 142 Kroll, Lucien 143 L Land Design Studio 144 Le Corbusier 145 Light : Artificial 146 Light : Natural 147 Listed/Protected Buildings 148 Llewelyn-Bowen, Lawrence 149 Load Bearing 150 Loos, Adolf 151 LOT-EK 152 Louvres 153 Lumsden at 154 Small Back Room M Machine Aesthetic 155 Mackintosh, 156 Charles Rennie Magazines 157 Mannerism 158 Mare, Andre 159 Materials : 160-161 Brick Concrete Glass Plastic Stone Timber Malta Clark, Gordon 162 Mezzanine 163 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 164 Minimalism 165 Mirror 166 Model 167 Modernism 168-169 Modular 170 Morris, William 171 Movement 172 N Narrative 173 Nash, John 174 Novembre, Fabio 175 O Object 176 Offices 177 Openings 178 Ornament 179 P Painting 180 Palladio, Andrea 181 Partition 182 Pattern 183 Perriand, Charlotte 184 Perspective 185 Piano Nobile 186 Piloti 187 Plan 188 Plane 189 Ponti, Gio 190 Portico 191 Post and Beam 192 Postmodernism 193 Prefabricated 194 Presentation 195 Private/Public 196 Product Design 197 Proportion 198 Psychology 199 Q Quadrangle 200 Qualification 201 Quatrefoil 202 Quoin 203 R Ranalli, George 204 Randy Brown Associates 205 Raumplan 206 Reflection 207 Regency 208 Reichen et Robert 209 Remodelling 210 Renaissance 211 Restoration 212 Retail Design 213 Reuse 214 Rococo 215 Roman 216 Room 217 Rotunda 218 Rural Studio 219 Ruskin, John 220 S Sample 221 Scale 222 Scarpa, Carlo 223 Scheme 224 Section 225 Semper, Gottfried 226 Sequence 227 Served/Servant Space 228 Skirting 229 Soffit 230 Softroom 231 Sottsass, Ettore 232 Space 233 Stack Effect 234 Stairs 235 Starck, Philippe 236 Structure 237 Surface 238 Sustainability 239 Symmetry 240 T Tactics 241 Tension 242 Textile Design 243 Texture 244 Theatre Design 245 Threshold 246 Truss 247 Tudor 248 U Universal Design Studio 249 Urbanism 250 Utopia 251 V Ventilation 252 Vernacular 253 Victorian 254 View 255 Villa 256 Vitra 257 Volume 258 W Wall 259 Wall Covering 260 Wharton, Edith 261 Whiteread, Rachel 262 Window 263 Wolfe, Elsie de 264 Wrapping 265 Wright, Prank Lloyd 266 X Xenakis, lannis 267 Y Yasui, Hideo 268 Yoshioka, Tokujin 269 Z Zeitgeist 270 Zoomorphic 271 The Details The Timeline 274 Credits 284 Conclusion 286 Acknowledgements 287 Index of Synonyms and Cross References 288