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Landscape Architecture

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is fully treated under its own head ing as is also TOWN AND CITY PLANNING. Other special articles are also given to COLOUR IN ARCHITECTURE; ORNAMENT, ARCHI TECTURAL; RENDERING, ARCHITECTURAL ; SCULPTURE : Architec tural; SHOP FRONT DESIGN ; ZONING. A large number of archi tectural subjects, such as BASILICA, DOME, FOUNTAIN, HOUSE, MOSQUE, PARTHENON, etc., and technical terms as, for instance, ARCHITRAVE, BASE, CAPITAL, COLUMN, GAINE and ORDER, are treated independently.

Finally, in the articles on many cities the reader will find de scriptions of important buildings.