A selective list of reference sources on architectural history which are available in the Humanities Reading Room. Electronic resources can be accessed in the Electronic Resources Room in both Humanities - Floor 1 and 2. The shelfmark of each item is given at the end of each citation. A separate list of architecture websites is also available.
| Dictionaries | |
| Bibliographies | Encyclopedias |
| Guides to periodical literature | |
| Buildings | History |
| Catalogues |
General works |
| The capitals of Europe : a guide to the sources for the history of their architecture and construction. Munchen; London: Saur, 1980. |
HLR 720.94 |
| Information sources in architecture and construction. Edited by Valerie J. Nurcombe. 2nd ed. London: Bowker-Saur, c1996. |
HLR 720.7 |
Bibliographies |
| Archer, John, The literature of British domestic architecture, 1715-1842. Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, c1985. |
HLR 728.0941 |
| A bibliography on vernacular architecture. Edited by Robert de Zouche Hall. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Bonet Correa, Antonio, Bibliografia de arquitectura, ingenieria y urbanismo en Espana (1498-1880). Madrid: Turner Libros; Vaduz: Topos Verlag, 1980. |
HLR 720.946 |
| Burnham index to architectural literature. 10 vols. New York; London: Garland Pubishing, 1989. |
HLL 720.16 |
| A current bibliography of vernacular architecture. Vol.1: 1970-1976. Leominster: Vernacular Architecture Group, 1979. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Faleer, R.A., Church woodwork in the British Isles, 1100-1535: an annotated bibliography. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. |
| HLR 726.5 |
| Harris, Eileen, British architectural books and writers 1556-1785. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Kamen, Ruth H., British and Irish architectural history: a bibliography and guide to sources of information. London: Architectural, 1981. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Smith, John Francis, A critical bibliography of building conservation : historic towns, buildings, their furnishings and fittings. London: Mansell Information Publishing, 1978. |
HLR 720.941 |
Biographical works |
| Bauchal, Charles, Nouveau dictionnaire biographique et critique des architectes francais. Paris, 1887. |
HLR 720.922 |
| Colvin, Howard Montagu, Biographical dictionary of British architects, 1600-1840. 3rd revised ed. Yale University Press, 1995. |
HLR 720.922 |
| Contemporary architects. 3rd ed. New York: St. James Press, c1994. |
HLR 720.922 |
| Directory of British architects 1834-1914. Updated & expanded ed. 2 vols. London; New York: Continuum, 2001. |
HLR 720.922 |
| Harvey, John, English mediaeval architects : a biographical dictionary down to 1550 : including master masons, carpenters, carvers, building contractors and others responsible for design. Revised ed. Gloucester: Sutton, 1984. |
HLR 720.922 |
| International dictionary of architects and architecture. Edited by Randall J. Van Vynckt. 2 vols. Detroit; London: St. James Press, c1993. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Macmillan encyclopaedia of architects. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, c1982. |
HLR720.922 |
| Royal Institute of British Architects. RIBA directory of members. London: R.I.B.A., [1973]- . Current edition. |
HLR 720.25 |
Buildings |
| Bence-Jones, Mark, A guide to Irish country houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, c1988. |
HLR 728.8 |
| The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951- . Latest edition of each volume. |
HLR Enquiry Desk 720.942 |
| The Buildings of Ireland. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979- . |
HLR Enquiry Desk 720.9415 |
| The Buildings of Scotland. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978- . |
HLR Enquiry Desk 720.9411 |
| The Buildings of Wales. Harmondsworth: Penguin; Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1979- . |
HLR Enquiry Desk 720.9429 |
| Burke's and Savills Guide to country houses. 3 vols. London: Burke's Peerage, 1978-81. |
HLR 728.8 |
| Churches and chapels of southern England. Edited by Stephen C. Humphrey. London: Black, 1991. |
HLR Enquiry Desk 726.5 |
| Clarke, Basil Fulford Lowther, Parish churches of London. London: Batsford, 1966. |
HLR 726.583 |
| Emery, Anthony, Greater medieval houses of England and Wales 1300-1500. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996-99. |
HLR 728.8 |
| Friar, Stephen, The Sutton companion to churches. Revised ed. Stroud : Sutton, 2003. |
HLR 726.5 |
| Harris, John Frederick, A country house index. An index to over 2000 country houses illustrated in 107 books of country views published between 1715 and 1872, together with a list of British country house guides and country house art collection catalogues for the period 1726-1870. Shalfleet Manor, I.O.W.: Pinhorns, 1971. |
HLR 728.8 |
HLR Enquiry Desk 728.8 |
| Holmes, Michael, The country house described: an index to the country houses of Great Britain and Ireland. Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986. |
HLR 728.8 |
| An Inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in Central England. London: H.M.S.O., 1986. |
HLR 726.5 |
| Jones, Edward, 1939- , A guide to the architecture of London / Edward Jones & Christopher Woodward. Updated ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. |
| HLR 720.942 |
| King, D. J. Cathcart, Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1983. |
HLR 728.81 |
| New, Anthony S. B., A guide to the abbeys of England and Wales. London: Constable, 1985. |
HLR Enquiry Desk 726.7 |
| Pettifer, Adrian, English castles: a guide by counties. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995. |
HLR Enquiry Desk 728.81 |
| Ramm, H. G., Shielings and bastles. [By] H. G. Ramm, R. W. McDowall, Eric Mercer. London, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1970. |
HLR 728.6 |
| Robinson, John Martin, A guide to the country houses of the north west. London: Constable, 1991. |
HLR 728.8 |
| Stell, Christopher, An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in Eastern England. Swindon: English Heritage, 2001. |
HLR 726.5 |
| Stell, Christopher, An inventory of Nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in south-west England. London: H.M.S.O., 1991. |
HLR 726.5 |
| Stell, Christopher, An inventory of nonconformist chapels and meeting-houses in the north of England. London : H.M.S.O., c1994. |
HLR 726.5 |
| Webb, Cliff, An index of English country houses. London : Society of Genealogists, 1999. |
HLR 728.8 |
Catalogues |
| Royal Institute of British Architects, Library, Catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architects Library. 2 vol. London: R.I.B.A., 1937, 38. |
HLR 720.16 |
Dictionaries |
| Curl, James Stevens, A dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Curl, James Stevens, Encyclopaedia of architectural terms. London: Donhead, 1993. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Dictionary of architecture and construction. Edited by Cyril M. Harris. New York; London: McGraw-Hill, [1976]. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Dictionary of building preservation. Edited by Ward Bucher. New York; Chichester: Wiley, 1996. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Dizionario enciclopedico di architettura e urbanistica. Diretto da Paolo Portoghesi. [Rome:] Istituto Editoriale Romano, [1968-1969]. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Dictionary of architecture & construction. Edited by Cyril M. Harris. 4th edition. New York; London: McGraw-Hill, 2006. |
HLR 720.3 |
| International dictionary of architects and architecture. Edited by Randall J. Van Vynckt. 2 vols. Detroit; London: St. James Press, c1993. |
HLR 720.3 |
| Petersen, Andrew, Dictionary of Islamic architecture. London: Routledge, 1996. |
HLR 720.917671 |
Encyclopedias |
| Arnold, Dieter, The encyclopaedia of Ancient Egyptian architecture. London: I.B. Tauris, c2003. |
HLR 722.2 |
| Brunskill, R. W., Vernacular architecture : an illustrated handbook. 4th ed. London: Faber, 2000. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture. Edited by R. Stephen Sennott. 3 vols. New York; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. |
HLR 724.603 |
| Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world. Edited by Paul Oliver. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
HLR 720 |
| The Oxford companion to architecture. Edited by Patrick Goode. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| HLR 720.3 |
Guides to periodical literature |
| Art index. New York, 1929- |
HUR701.6 |
| Also available on CD-ROM and online onsite only. |
| Comité international d'histoire de l'art, Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie. Nouvelle série. Paris, 1965-1989. |
HUR701.6 |
| RILA: international repertory of the literature of art. London, 1975-1989. |
HUR701.6 |
| Both the above were superseded by: |
| BHA: bibliography of the history of art. Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, 1991-. |
HUR701.6 |
| Also available online from the Getty Institute. |
| Country life indexes. London: IPC Magazines. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Union list of periodicals on art and related subject fields. London, 1978. |
HUR Enquiry Desk 705 |
| Also available online as Arlis: Union list of art, architecture and design serials. |
History |
General |
| Ching, Frank, A global history of architecture. Francis D.K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikram Prakash. 2nd edition. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2011. |
HLR 720.9 |
| Fletcher, Banister, A history of architecture. 20th ed. Oxford: Architectural Press, 1996. |
HLR 720.9 |
| Watkin, David, A history of Western architecture. 3rd ed. New York; London: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. |
HLR 720.9 |
British Isles |
| Archer, Lucy, Architecture in Britain and Ireland. London: Harvill, 1999. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Craig, Maurice, The architecture of Ireland : from the earliest times to 1880. London: Batsford, 1982. |
HLR 720.9415 |
| The History of the King's Works. General editor: H. M.Colvin. 6 vol. London: H.M.S.O., 1963-1982. |
HLR 720 |
| Summerson, John Newenham, Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830. 8th revised ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. |
HLR 720.941 |
| Taylor, Harold McCarter, Anglo-Saxon Architecture. 3 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1965-78. |
HLR 726.5 |
| Webb, Geoffrey Fairbank, Architecture in Britain: the Middle Ages. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1956. |
HLR 720.941 |
Europe |
| Blunt, Anthony, Art and architecture in France, 1500-1700. 5th edition [revised by Richard Beresford]. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 1999. |
HLR 709.44 |
| Boethius, Axel, Etruscan and early Roman architecture. 2nd integrated ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. |
HLR 722.7 |
| Conant, Kenneth John, Carolingian and Romanesque architecture 800-1200. Third edition. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973. |
HLR 723.4 |
| Crossley, Paul, Gothic architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. |
HLR 723.5 |
| Frankl, Paul, The Gothic. Literary sources and interpretations through eight centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. |
HLR 723.5 |
| Heydenreich, Ludwig H., Architecture in Italy, 1400-1500. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1996. |
HLR 720.945 |
| Kalnein, Wend von, Architecture in France in the eighteenth century. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1995. |
HLR 709.44 |
| Lawrence, A. W., Greek architecture. 5th ed. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1996. |
HLR 722.8 |
| Lotz, Wolfgang, Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1995. |
HLR 720.945 |
| Ward-Perkins, J. B., Roman imperial architecture. 2nd (integrated) ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981. |
HLR 722.7 |
| Wittkower, Rudolf, Art and architecture in Italy 1600-1750. 6th edition [revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu]. [New Haven]; [London]: Yale University Press, [c1999] |
HLR 709.45 |
Rest of the world |
| Beckwith, John, Early Christian and Byzantine art. 2nd (integrated) ed. Harmondworth: Penguin, 1979. |
HLR 723.1 |
| Blair, Sheila, The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800. By Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1994. |
HLR 709.176 |
| Ettinghausen, Richard, Islamic art and architecture 650-1250. Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina. 2nd edition. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 2001. |
HLR 709.176 |
| Frankfort, Henri, The art and architecture of the ancient Orient. 5th edition. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1996. |
HLR 709.39 |
| Krautheimer, Richard, Early Christian and Byzantine architecture. 4th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. |
HLR 723.1 |
| Ross, L., Art and architecture of the world's religions. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2009. |
| HLR 704.948 |
| Smith, William Stevenson, The art and architecture of ancient Egypt. Revised edition with additions. New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, 1998. |
HLR 709.32 |
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