Architectural Styles: Selected Detail Images
Architecture Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Reference MaterialS
Below is a selected list of architectural styles to start your research. To locate books on these styles in the libraries at UCLA, search the UCLA Library Catalog using the following subject searches. Subject searches by styles can be written as "Architecture, style or movement"
Classical Architecture by Call Number: Arts Library; NA260 .C87 2003ISBN: 9780393731194Date: 2003-05-17
Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide by 
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Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA204 .H66 2014; Also Available OnlineISBN: 9781780671635Date: 2014-08-26
Architectura : elements of architectural style by Call Number: * NA200 .A695 2008 Arts Library Oversize and Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 9780764161704
American Architecture since 1780: A Guide to Styles by Call Number: Arts Library; NA705 .W576a 1992ISBN: 9780262231640Date: 1992-03-04
Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 by Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA705 .B627i 1981ISBN: 9780393306101
- Architectural Style Guides and DictionariesA bibliography compiled by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
Dictionary of Architecture and Construction by Call Number: NA31 .H32 2006 Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 0071452370
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Call Number: NA31 .C44 2012 Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 9780470648858A useful source to help identify names for parts of buildings and other architectural terms (from illustrations)
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture by Call Number: NA31 .C864 2006 Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 0192806300
Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture by Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA680 .E495 2004ISBN: 1579582435Date: 2003-12-09
Fundamental Concepts of Architecture by Call Number: NA31 .J36 2014 Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 9783034608923
The Oxford Companion to Architecture by Call Number: NA31 .O94 2009 v.1-2 Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 9780198605683
Pevsner's Architectural Glossary by Call Number: NA961 .P49 2016 Arts Library ReferenceISBN: 0300223684
Use these reference sources to obtain an overview of your topic, to identify key terms and monuments or names of important individuals and groups, to trace movements and technologies, to find seminal authors and works in the field, and/or to gather lists of recommended readings.
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Bloomsbury Architecture Library is a leading digital resource for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design. - Design Library - Bloomsbury This link opens in a new window
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The Bloomsbury Design Library gives comprehensive global coverage of the history, theory and practice of crafts and design, from prehistoric times to the present day.
- Encyclopedia of architecture : design, engineering & constructionNA31 .E59 1988 v.1-5 Arts Library Reference
- Great Buildings CollectionA gateway to architecture around the world and across history. Documents 1,000 important buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographs and architectural drawings, maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more.
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Combines Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society, and numerous international art galleries and artists.
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Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.
- Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD)Information on buildings and designers from California, Oregon and Washington.
- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings DatabaseIncludes information on more than 260,000 projects and buildings, over 24,400 architects, engineers and contractors, and over 127,000 images. Although the focus is on Philadelphia buildings and Philadelphia based-architects, numerous projects from other locations are also represented, including over 5500 projects in California).
Residential Architecture
To locate guidebooks on residential architecture in the libraries at UCLA, search the UCLA Library Catalog using the following subject headings:
- Architecture -- residential
- Architecture -- domestic
- Architecture -- domestic -- country
- Architecture -- domestic -- state -- city
- Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans
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Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781119653707Date: 2023-07-25
Floor Plan Manual Housing by Call Number: Arts Library Reference; * NA7205 .F56 2011ISBN: 9783034607087Date: 2011-06-07
Housing the Future: Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow by Call Number: Arts Library; NA7110 .H742 2015ISBN: 9780993370601Date: 2016-04-01
The Abrams Guide to American House Styles by Call Number: Arts Library ; NA7205 .M6793 2004ISBN: 9780810972308Date: 2008-04-01
Houses Without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common Houses by Call Number: Arts Library; NA7205 .H76 2013ISBN: 9781572339477Date: 2013-09-30- American Architecture since 1780: A Guide to Styles by Call Number: Arts Library; NA705 .W576a 1992ISBN: 9780262231640Date: 1992-03-04
A Field Guide to American Houses by Call Number: Arts Library; NA7205 .M35 1984ISBN: 9780394739694Date: 1984-05-12
American Homes: The llustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Architecture by Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA7205 .W34 2002ISBN: 9781579122522Date: 2002-09-02- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture byCall Number: Arts Library Reference ; NA7205 .C27 1994ISBN: 9780805026467Date: 1995-01-01
Los Angeles Residential Architecture by Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA735.L55 W38 2015ISBN: 9781626198036Date: 2015-08-31
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Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA7238.L6 L67 2002ISBN: 9783823855941Date: 2004-09-01
The Los Angeles House by Call Number: Arts Library Reference; NA7238.L6 S78 2005ISBN: 9780940512405Date: 2005-04-01
California Beach Houses: Style, Interiors, and Architecture by Call Number: Arts Library; NA7575 .V56 1996ISBN: 9780811812184Date: 1996-08-01
City of Angels: Houses and Gardens of Los Angeles by Call Number: Arts Library Oversize*; * NA735.L55 R84 2018ISBN: 9780865653573Date: 2018-10-02
