http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/reference/further-reading/architects.html?size=1&=775f391221287818948b1fc6eddcaf43, printed from the Looking at Buildings website on Friday 18th July 2025
Our catalogue of books and articles on architects is arranged alphabetically and provides one of the fullest guides to publications on architects since 1840. For anyone researching architects before 1840 there is one essential reference book:
Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 by H.M. Colvin (3rd ed. published in 1995). Our index does not include material published before 1977 when the 2nd edition of this valuable book was published. It does however include monographs on architects published in the 20th and 21st centuries
For the period after 1840, the following books are useful:
Engineers are not included here but useful bibliographies can be found in:
Last updated: Monday, 26th January 2009