Architecture Guides

LAR 601: Landscape Architecture Design

Familiar landforms: etymology, meaning, symbolic content, images

Databases

Searching in periodical databases will retrieve the most recent scholarship on the subject. Remember to tailor your search to your choice of database.

Oxford English Dictionary

Use this to find word definitions, etymological meanings, and usage

VIRGO:

Quick search:	keyword subject	landform landforms landforms and landscape
	keyword title	landscape architecture dictionary
Advanced search:	subject	landscape architecture and landscape design

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Avery Index is updated daily.

Basic search as Subject Word:	topography topography symbol?
	topograph? and symbol?

BHA:

Basic Search as Subject Word:	topography and landscape
	landscape and symbolism landscape painting representation

Grove Art Online:

Similar to a survey text, Grove Art Online provides encyclopedia style information on most topics and artists relevant to the art world. This is not a place to go to find specific articles, but rather general information about your work of art that might point you in a direction for your later research.

Advanced search (full text):

landscape architecture and symbolism
landscape architecture and design and symbolism
topography and landscape and symbolism