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Some of Rob Cowan’s illustrations

for the second edition of the dictionary

Illustration of a 1910 crest
A brownstone
A Diocletian window
A Hindustan Ambassador
Illustration of a barricadoe
A barrio sign in Barcelona
Illustration of a broken pediment
Illustration of a brownstone
A cabman's shelter
A civic building
A concrete-framed building, unfinished
A crinkle-crankle wall
A rectory in gothic style
A residential quarter of UR
Top down image of a palace
Illustration of Ada Salter (1866)
Illustration of Tery Farrell at Alban Gate
Allan B Jacobs
Arcade 1906
Arcade (Washington Union Water)
Arches
Arcosanti
Area (curve)
Area, London
Art Deco Panel
Illustration of Ash (1965)
BV Doshi
Illustration of a Balcony
Illustration of a balcony
Illustration of a balcony
Illustration of a balcony
Balcony 556
Illustration of Balustrade
Illustration of Bedford Square
Illustration of Bedzed
Part of a neighbourhood of hutongs in Beijing, China
Bertold Lubetkin
Birmingham airport maglev
Birmgingham in 1731
Boundary Street Estate and the streets it replaced
Illustration of a Bracket
Brindley Place, Birmingham
Illustration of a Broken pediment
Illustration of brutalism at Brunel University
Brutalism
Buckingham's plan for a model town
Buckminster Fuller
Buffalo, NY, park system 1880
Illustration of a canopy in Lubljana
Illustration of Capital ammonite
Illustration of capital art deco
Illustration of model capital
Illustration of modern capital
Illustration of capital, egg and dart
Illustration of capital ionic
Catslide Roof, Wimbledon
Cedric Price's diagram
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Tyson Yerkes
Chicago's municipal device
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1815
Illustration of Coal-hole covers
Console
Coping
Corbel table
Coronation Street
A diagram of London's communities from the 1943 County of London Plan
Cross Stow-on-the-Wold
Plan of the 1922 Daily Mail Model Village at Welwyn Garden City
Dancing House, Prague, Gehry
Daniel Burnham
David Rudlin
Illustration of Decorative bargeboards
Illustration of Denise Scott Brown (1931)
Third floor plan, Denver Art Museum, Daniel Libeskind
Dereliction
A 1807 plan fro Detroit
Donald Insall
Door
Illustration of doorway
Dripstone, Scotney Castle, Kent
Dumbell plan apartments
Dymaxion car
Edwin Lutyens
Illustration of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (1950)
Eyewear worn by (from top) Le Corbusier, Jane Jacobs and Daniel Libeskind
Illustration of Faience
Illustration of a Fanlight
Fanlight (MM)
Illustration of a Fanlight
Fasces
Fish-scale wall tiles
Fleet Street
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gant
Geoffrey Jellicoe
Gothic
Great Yarmouth rows shown in the 1797 plan
Illustration of Griffin (1950)
Griffin
Hanging baskets, Cardiff
Hathaway's 1834 map of Chicago
Gideon Ouseley's diagram of a heptapolis
Huntly, Aberdeenshire, planned as a new town in 1769
Illustration of Ian Nairn
Illustration of James Baldwin (1924)
Illustration of Jane Jacobs (1916)
Illustration of Jay Pitter (1971)
Illustration of Jenifer Keesmaat (1970)
Kiosk
Klas Tham
Kristien Ring
Leopold Kohr
Lodge
MRG Conzen
Mall
Marinetti
Miami
Michael Heseltine
Michael Young
Mitcham Garden Village
Cule de sac plan of the Monkston District of Milton Keynes
Myddelton Square
The 1641 Nine Square Plan of New Haven, Connecticut
Perimeter blocks on a 1997 masterplan for 3,000 homes on the site of the former Ravenscraig steelworks in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Illustration of Octavia Hill (1838)
Oriel
Outshoot
Park, shopping
Pediment
Philip Johnson
Pinwheel layout
Plan of Silchester
Plan of part of Radburn, New Jersey
Plecnic
Porch
Porch
Porch, Lubetkin, West Sussex
Pottinger's Entry, Belfast
Quasi-semi-detached houses
Quinlan Terry
Illustration of Rachel Carson (1907)
Radburn, New Jersey
Ralph Erskine
Rebecca Solnic
The dome of the Reichstag, Berlin, designed by Norman Foster
Richard Seifert
Richard Sennett
The medieval city of Rothenburg, Bavaria
Royal Arcade, Cardiff
Illustration of Ruth Glass (1912)
Illustration of Sadik Khan (1960)
Illustration of Saskia Sassen (1947)
Sculpture, Harlow
Seven hills of Rome
Shotgun house
Siena in the nineteenth century
Silver End
Slogans
SoHo, New York
Illustration of Somaya (1949)
Some types of pointing
South Africa's first garden city
Illustration of Sri Prakash (1955)
St James Square in London's west end
St Petersburg
Thamesmead
The Alban Gate office building in London by Terry Farrell
A plan for a hamlet from Raymond Unwin's 1901 The Art of Building a Home
Illustration of The Bullring, Birmingham
The Copenhagen finger plan
Illustration of The Empire State Building
Illustration of The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
The Magic Roundabout, Swindon
The Rows, Chester
The dome of the Reichstag, Berlin, designed by Norman Foster
Thomas Love Peacock
Thornhill Square and Crescent, London
The village of Tomintoul, Banffshire, in the nineteenth century
Townhouse
Turret
Unkown
John Nolen's 1926 plan of Venice, Florida
Venice, St Marks Square
Illustration of Walter Hood
Illustration of Witney Young (1921)
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