The encyclopedia was recreated according to the 1902-1908 edition. The author of the encyclopedia Baranovsky Gavriil Vasilievich (1860-1920), architect, architectural historian, publisher. The publication includes the best samples of artistic and architectural creativity of masters of the whole world at that time. The richness and quantity of the material presented on the pages of the volumes allows architects, artists, developers, as well as everyone who is interested in architecture, to find answers to questions of interest, to get the necessary ideas for further creativity. Baranovsky's encyclopedia incorporated the experience of many architects of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, as if summing up the search in the field of form, style and design. It should be noted that this work was carried out by famous architects, including V.P. Stasov, V.A. Hartman, I.P. Ropet, and others.