A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2nd ed.

RR 2007/38 A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2nd ed. James Stevens Curl Oxford University Press Oxford 2006 xxv + 880 pp. ISBN 0 19 860678 8 £10.99; $17.95

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Keywords Architecture, Dictionaries

Review DOI 10.1108/09504120710719716

The influential American architect Philip Johnson is famously quoted as having opined that "Architecture is the art of how to waste space". Certainly, architecture is about the use of space, but whether it is an art or not has been the subject of much debate. The great architect, of whom there are surprisingly few, has the task of making a building that...