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1. 330 relations: A History of Architecture, Abacus, Abacus (architecture), Acanthus (ornament), Accolade (architecture), Adjective, Aisle, Altar, American colonial architecture, American Institute of Architects, Ancient Roman architecture, Annulet (architecture), Anta (architecture), Ante-choir, Apartment, Apex (geometry), Apron (architecture), Apse, Arcade (architecture), Arch, Architecture, Architecture of India, Architrave, Arris, Arrowslit, Art Nouveau, Articulation (architecture), Artillery, Ashlar, Astragal, At First Sight (1999 film), Athens, Atlas (architecture), Atrium (architecture), Attic, Balconet, Ball flower, Baluster, Bargeboard, Baroque architecture, Barrel vault, Barricade, Bartizan, Basement, Basilica, Batter (walls), Battlement, Bay (architecture), Bay window, Beam (structure), ... Expand index (280 more) » « Shrink index

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A History of Architecture

A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method is a book about history of architecture by Banister Flight Fletcher and his father, Banister Fletcher, published in London in 1896.

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Abacus

An abacus (abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a hand-operated calculating tool which was used from ancient times in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, until the adoption of the Arabic numeral system.

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Abacus (architecture)

In architecture, an abacus (from the Ancient Greek,; or French,;: abacuses or abaci) is a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, above the bell. Glossary of architecture and abacus (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Acanthus (ornament)

The acanthus (ἄκανθος) is one of the most common plant forms to make foliage ornament and decoration in the architectural tradition emanating from Greece and Rome.

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Accolade (architecture)

In architecture, an accolade is an embellished arch found most typically in late Gothic architecture. Glossary of architecture and accolade (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Adjective

An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.

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Aisle

An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Glossary of architecture and aisle are architectural elements and building engineering.

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Altar

An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes.

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American colonial architecture

American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Ancient Roman architecture

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.

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Annulet (architecture)

An annulet is a small square component in the Doric capital, under the quarter-round.

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Anta (architecture)

An anta (pl. antæ, antae, or antas; Latin, possibly from ante, "before" or "in front of"), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades), is a term in classical architecture describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting piers which terminate the side walls (of the naos). Glossary of architecture and anta (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Ante-choir

Ante-choir, the term given to the space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood screen and the door of the screen; sometimes there is only one rail, gate or door, but in Westminster Abbey it is equal in depth to one bay of the nave. Glossary of architecture and Ante-choir are architectural elements.

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Apartment

An apartment (North American English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Apex (geometry)

In geometry, an apex (apices) is the vertex which is in some sense the "highest" of the figure to which it belongs.

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Apron (architecture)

An apron is a raised section of ornamental stonework below a window ledge, stone tablet, or monument. Glossary of architecture and apron (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Apse

In architecture, an apse (apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς,, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis;: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra.

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Arcade (architecture)

An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers. Glossary of architecture and arcade (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Arch

An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Architecture of India

Indian architecture is rooted in the history, culture, and religion of India.

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Architrave

In classical architecture, an architrave (also called an epistyle) is the lintel or beam, typically made of wood or stone, that rests on the capitals of columns. Glossary of architecture and architrave are architectural elements.

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Arris

In architecture, an arris is the sharp edge formed by the intersection of two surfaces, such as the corner of a masonry unit; the edge of a timber in timber framing; the junction between two planes of plaster or any intersection of divergent architectural details. Glossary of architecture and arris are architectural elements.

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Arrowslit

An arrowslit (often also referred to as an arrow loop, loophole or loop hole, and sometimes a balistraria) is a narrow vertical aperture in a fortification through which an archer can launch arrows or a crossbowman can launch bolts.

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Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts.

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Articulation (architecture)

Articulation, in art and architecture, is a method of styling the joints in the formal elements of architectural design. Glossary of architecture and Articulation (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Artillery

Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.

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Ashlar

Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. Glossary of architecture and Ashlar are architectural elements.

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Astragal

An astragal is a moulding profile composed of a half-round surface surrounded by two flat planes (fillets). Glossary of architecture and astragal are architectural elements.

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At First Sight (1999 film)

At First Sight is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Irwin Winkler and starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Atlas (architecture)

In European architectural sculpture, an atlas (also known as an atlant, or atlante or atlantid; plural atlantes), Michael Delahunt,, 1996–2008.

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Atrium (architecture)

In architecture, an atrium (atria or atriums) is a large open-air or skylight-covered space surrounded by a building. Glossary of architecture and atrium (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Attic

An attic (sometimes referred to as a loft) is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building.

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Balconet

Balconet or balconette is an architectural term to describe a false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and having, when the window is open, the appearance of a balcony. Glossary of architecture and balconet are architectural elements.

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Ball flower

The ball-flower (also written ballflower) is an architectural ornament in the form of a ball inserted in the cup of a flower.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features. Glossary of architecture and baluster are architectural elements.

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Bargeboard

A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Barrel vault

A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance.

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Barricade

Barricade (from the French barrique - 'barrel') is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction.

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Bartizan

A bartizan (an alteration of bratticing), also called a guerite, garita, or échauguette, or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 18th century.

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Basement

A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. Glossary of architecture and basement are building engineering.

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Basilica

In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.

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Batter (walls)

In architecture, batter is a receding slope of a wall, structure, or earthwork. Glossary of architecture and batter (walls) are building engineering.

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Battlement

A battlement, in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.

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Bay (architecture)

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment. Glossary of architecture and bay (architecture) are architectural elements and building engineering.

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Bay window

A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. Glossary of architecture and bay window are architectural elements.

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Beam (structure)

A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally across the beam's axis (an element designed to carry a load pushing parallel to its axis would be a strut or column).

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Beehive tomb

A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Bench table

A bench table (banc; sedile; Bank) is a low stone seat which runs round the interior of the walls of many large churches.

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Boss (architecture)

In architecture, a boss is a decorative knob on a ceiling, wall or sculpture.

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Bossage

Bossage is uncut stone that is laid in place in a building, projecting outward from the building, to later be carved into decorative moldings, capitals, arms, etc. Glossary of architecture and Bossage are architectural elements.

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Bow window

A bow window or compass window is a curved bay window.

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Bracket (architecture)

A bracket is a structural or decorative architectural element that projects from a wall, usually to carry weight and sometimes to "strengthen an angle". Glossary of architecture and bracket (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Bressummer

A bressummer, breastsummer, summer beam (somier, sommier, sommer, somer, cross-somer, summer, summier, summer-tree, or dorman, dormant tree) is a load-bearing beam in a timber-framed building. Glossary of architecture and bressummer are architectural elements.

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Brickwork

Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Glossary of architecture and Brickwork are building engineering.

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Brise soleil

Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil, is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within that building by deflecting sunlight. Glossary of architecture and brise soleil are architectural elements.

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Bulwark

Bulwark primarily refers to.

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Buttress

A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Glossary of architecture and buttress are architectural elements.

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Cancellarii

Cancelli are lattice-work, placed before a window, a door-way, the tribunal of a judge, the chancel of a church, or any other similar place.

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Cant (architecture)

A cant in architecture is an angled (oblique-angled) line or surface that cuts off a corner. Glossary of architecture and cant (architecture) are architectural elements and building engineering.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end. Glossary of architecture and cantilever are architectural elements.

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Capital (architecture)

In architecture, the capital or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster). Glossary of architecture and capital (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Caryatid

A caryatid (Καρυᾶτις|) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.

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Casement window

A casement window is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Cavaedium

Cavaedium or atrium are Latin names for the principal room of an ancient Roman house, which usually had a central opening in the roof (compluvium) and a rainwater pool (impluvium) beneath it.

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Cavetto

A cavetto is a concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle, widely used in architecture as well as furniture, picture frames, metalwork and other decorative arts.

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Cella

In Classical architecture, a cella or is the inner chamber of an ancient Greek or Roman temple. Glossary of architecture and cella are architectural elements.

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Chamfer

A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Chantry

A chantry is an ecclesiastical term that may have either of two related meanings.

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Chigi (architecture)

, or are forked roof finials found in Japanese and Shinto architecture.

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Chimney

A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas.

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Churrigueresque

Churrigueresque (Spanish: Churrigueresco), also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used until about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main façade of a building.

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Cinquecento

The cultural and artistic events of Italy during the period 1500 to 1599 are collectively referred to as the Cinquecento, from the Italian for the number 500, in turn from millecinquecento, which is Italian for the year 1500.

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Cippus

A cippus was a low, round, or rectangular pedestal set up by the Ancient Romans for purposes such as a milestone or a boundary post.

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Circulation (architecture)

In architecture, circulation refers to the way people move through and interact with a building.

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Classical order

An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.

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Clerestory

In architecture, a clerestory (also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey; from Old French cler estor) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye-level. Glossary of architecture and clerestory are architectural elements.

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Clock gable

The clock gable (klokgevel), also known as Dutch clock gable, is a gable or facade with decorative shape characteristic of traditional Dutch architecture. Glossary of architecture and clock gable are architectural elements.

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Coffer

A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. Glossary of architecture and coffer are architectural elements.

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Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.

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Collins English Dictionary

The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.

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Colonnade

In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. Glossary of architecture and colonnade are architectural elements.

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Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. Glossary of architecture and column are architectural elements.

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Compass (architecture)

In carpentry, architecture, and shipbuilding, a compass is a curved circular form.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Conoid

In geometry a conoid is a ruled surface, whose rulings (lines) fulfill the additional conditions: The conoid is a right conoid if its axis is perpendicular to its directrix plane.

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Coping (architecture)

Coping (from cope, Latin capa) is the capping or covering of a wall.

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Corbel

In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. Glossary of architecture and corbel are architectural elements.

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Corinthian order

The Corinthian order (Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture.

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Cornice

In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a pedestal, or along the top of an interior wall. Glossary of architecture and cornice are architectural elements.

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Corona

Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to.

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Course (architecture)

A course is a layer of the same unit running horizontally in a wall. Glossary of architecture and course (architecture) are building engineering.

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Cresting (architecture)

Cresting, in architecture, is ornamentation attached to the ridge of a roof, cornice, coping or parapet, usually made of a metal such as iron or copper. Glossary of architecture and Cresting (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Crocket

A crocket (or croquet) is a small, independent decorative element common in Gothic architecture.

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Cross-wing

A cross-wing is an addition to a house, at right angles to the original block of a house, usually with a gable. Glossary of architecture and cross-wing are architectural elements.

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Crown glass (window)

Crown glass was an early type of window glass.

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Crypt

A crypt (from Greek κρύπτη (kryptē) crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. Glossary of architecture and crypt are building engineering.

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Cryptoporticus

In Ancient Roman architecture a cryptoporticus (from Latin crypta and porticus) is a covered corridor or passageway.

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Cupola

In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.

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Dais

A dais or daïs (or, American English also but sometimes considered nonstandard) in the Random House Dictionary in Oxford Dictionaries Online in the American Heritage Dictionary is a raised platform at the front of a room or hall, usually for one or more speakers or honored guests.

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Deck (ship)

A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship.

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Dentil

A dentil (from Lat. dens, a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice. Glossary of architecture and dentil are architectural elements.

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Diana (mythology)

Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon.

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Diaulos (architecture)

A diaulos (from Gr. δι-, "double", and αὐλός, "pipe"), in ancient Greek architecture, was a peristyle round the great court of the palaestra, described by Vitruvius, which measured two stadia (.) in length, on the south side this peristyle had two rows of columns, so that in stormy weather the rain might not be driven into the inner part.

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Dikka

A dikka or dakka (دكة), also known in Turkish as a müezzin mahfili, is a raised platform or tribune in a mosque from which the Quran is recited and where the muezzin chants or repeats in response to the imam's prayers. Glossary of architecture and dikka are architectural elements.

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Distyle in antis

In classical architecture, distyle in antis denotes a temple with the side walls extending to the front of the porch and terminating with two antae, the pediment being supported by two columns or sometimes caryatids.

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Dome

A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere. Glossary of architecture and dome are architectural elements.

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Domus

In ancient Rome, the domus (domūs, genitive: domūs or domī) was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras.

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Donatello

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (– 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.

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Doric order

The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Dormer

A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. Glossary of architecture and dormer are architectural elements.

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Dutch gable

A Dutch gable or Flemish gable is a gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and which has a pediment at the top. Glossary of architecture and Dutch gable are architectural elements.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England.

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Eave return

An eave return (also a cornice return) is an element in Neoclassical architecture where the line of roof eave on a gable end comes down to a point, then doubles back briefly. Glossary of architecture and eave return are architectural elements.

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Eaves

The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. Glossary of architecture and eaves are architectural elements.

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Egg-and-dart

Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo—typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element (e.g., an arrow, anchor, or dart).

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Elefsina

Elefsina (Elefsína) or Eleusis (Eleusís) is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area.

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Enfilade (architecture)

In architecture, an enfilade is a series of rooms formally aligned with each other.

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Engaged column

An engaged column is an architectural element in which a column is embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, which may or may not carry a partial structural load.

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Engawa

An or is an edging strip of non-tatami-matted flooring in Japanese architecture, usually wood or bamboo.

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English Gothic architecture

English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century.

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Entablature

An entablature (nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Glossary of architecture and entablature are architectural elements.

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Entasis

In architecture, entasis is the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes, or increasing strength.

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Ephesus

Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Estipite

The estipite column is a type of pilaster typical of the Churrigueresque Baroque style of Spain and Spanish America used in the 18th century.

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Exedra

An exedra (exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. Glossary of architecture and exedra are architectural elements.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building. Glossary of architecture and façade are architectural elements and building engineering.

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Fan vault

A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan.

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Fanlight

A fanlight is a form of lunette window, often semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars or tracery sets radiating out like an open fan.

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Fascia (architecture)

Fascia is an architectural term for a vertical frieze or band under a roof edge, or which forms the outer surface of a cornice, visible to an observer. Glossary of architecture and Fascia (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi (1377 – 15 April 1446), commonly known as Filippo Brunelleschi and also nicknamed Pippo by Leon Battista Alberti, was an Italian architect, designer, goldsmith and sculptor.

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Finial

A finial (from finis, end) or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Flushwork

In architecture, flushwork is decorative masonry work which combines on the same flat plane flint and ashlar stone.

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Fluting (architecture)

Fluting in architecture and the decorative arts consists of shallow grooves running along a surface. Glossary of architecture and Fluting (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Flying buttress

The flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs. Glossary of architecture and flying buttress are architectural elements.

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Foil (architecture)

A foil is an architectural device based on a symmetrical rendering of leaf shapes, defined by overlapping circles of the same diameter that produce a series of cusps to make a lobe.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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François Mansart

François Mansart (23 January 1598 – 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into the Baroque architecture of France.

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Frieze

In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs.

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Fusuma

In Japanese architecture, are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. Glossary of architecture and gable are architectural elements.

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Gadrooning

Gadrooning is a decorative motif consisting of convex curving shapes in relief in a series.

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Galleting

Galleting, sometimes known as garreting or garneting, is an architectural technique in which spalls (small pieces of stone) are pushed into wet mortar joints during the construction of a masonry building. Glossary of architecture and Galleting are architectural elements.

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Gambrel

A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side.

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Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.

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Gargoyle

In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.

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Garret

A garret is a habitable attic, a living space at the top of a house or larger residential building, traditionally small with sloping ceilings.

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Gavaksha

In Indian architecture, gavaksha or chandrashala (kudu in Tamil, also nāsī) are the terms most often used to describe the motif centred on an ogee, circular or horseshoe arch that decorates many examples of Indian rock-cut architecture and later Indian structural temples and other buildings.

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Gazebo

A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden, or spacious public area.

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Geison

Geison (γεῖσον – often interchangeable with somewhat broader term cornice) is an architectural term of relevance particularly to ancient Greek and Roman buildings, as well as archaeological publications of the same. Glossary of architecture and Geison are architectural elements.

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Geodesic dome

A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Glossary of engineering

This glossary is split across multiple pages due to technical limitations.

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Gorgerin

In architecture, a gorgerin (from the meaning throat) is the neckline or portion of a capital of a column, or a feature forming the junction between a shaft and its capital. Glossary of architecture and gorgerin are architectural elements.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Great hall

A great hall is the main room of a royal palace, castle or a large manor house or hall house in the Middle Ages, and continued to be built in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries, although by then the family used the great chamber for eating and relaxing.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Grotesque (architecture)

In architecture, a grotesque is a fantastic or mythical figure carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building.

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Grotto

A grotto is a natural or artificial cave used by humans in both modern times and antiquity, and historically or prehistorically. Glossary of architecture and grotto are architectural elements.

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Gutta

A gutta (Latin pl. guttae, "drops") is a small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used near the top of the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture. Glossary of architecture and gutta are architectural elements.

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Hagioscope

A hagioscope or squint is an architectural term denoting a small splayed opening or tunnel at seated eye-level, through an internal masonry dividing wall of a church in an oblique direction (south-east or north-east), giving worshippers a view of the altar and therefore of the elevation of the host. Glossary of architecture and hagioscope are architectural elements.

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Handrail

A handrail is a rail that is designed to be grasped by the hand so as to provide safety or support. Glossary of architecture and handrail are architectural elements.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Henry VII Chapel

The Henry VII Lady Chapel, now more often known just as the Henry VII Chapel, is a large Lady chapel at the far eastern end of Westminster Abbey, England, paid for by the will of King Henry VII.

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Hip roof

A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others.

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Hood mould

In architecture, a hood mould, hood, label mould (from Latin labia, lip), drip mould or dripstone is an external moulded projection from a wall over an opening to throw off rainwater, historically often in form of a pediment. Glossary of architecture and hood mould are architectural elements.

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Hypaethral

In classical architecture, hypaethral describes a building with no roof and with columns forming a partial wall.

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Hyphen (architecture)

In architecture, a hyphen is a connecting link between two larger building elements. Glossary of architecture and hyphen (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Hypotrachelium

The hypotrachelium is the upper part or groove in the shaft of a Doric column, beneath the trachelium. Glossary of architecture and hypotrachelium are architectural elements.

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Imperial roof decoration

Chinese imperial roof decorations or roof charms or roof-figures or "walking beasts" or "crouching beasts" were statuettes placed along the ridge line of official buildings of the Chinese empire.

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Impost (architecture)

In architecture, an impost or impost block is a projecting block resting on top of a column or embedded in a wall, serving as the base for the springer or lowest voussoir of an arch. Glossary of architecture and impost (architecture) are architectural elements.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Intercolumniation

In architecture, intercolumniation is the proportional spacing between columns in a colonnade, often expressed as a multiple of the column diameter as measured at the bottom of the shaft.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.

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Isosceles triangle

In geometry, an isosceles triangle is a triangle that has two sides of equal length.

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Jagati (temple)

In Hindu temple architecture, the jagati is the raised surface of the platform or terrace upon which Hindus, Jain, and Buddhist temples are built. Glossary of architecture and jagati (temple) are architectural elements.

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James Brice

James Brice (August 26, 1746 – July 11, 1801) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Annapolis, Maryland.

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Japanese architecture

has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs.

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Jettying

Jettying (jetty, jutty, from Old French getee, jette) is a building technique used in medieval timber-frame buildings in which an upper floor projects beyond the dimensions of the floor below. Glossary of architecture and Jettying are architectural elements.

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Joist

A joist is a horizontal structural member used in framing to span an open space, often between beams that subsequently transfer loads to vertical members. Glossary of architecture and joist are building engineering.

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Kami

are the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the Shinto religion.

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Katsuogi

or are short, decorative logs used in Japanese and Shinto architecture.

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Keystone (architecture)

A keystone (or capstone) is the wedge-shaped stone at the apex of a masonry arch or typically round-shaped one at the apex of a vault. Glossary of architecture and keystone (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Latticework

Latticework is an openwork framework consisting of a criss-crossed pattern of strips of building material, typically wood or metal. Glossary of architecture and Latticework are architectural elements.

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Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti (14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.

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Lesene

A lesene, also called a pilaster strip, is an architectural term for a narrow, low-relief vertical pillar on a wall. Glossary of architecture and lesene are architectural elements.

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Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.

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Lightning rod

A lightning rod or lightning conductor (British English) is a metal rod mounted on a structure and intended to protect the structure from a lightning strike.

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Lintel

A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. Glossary of architecture and lintel are architectural elements.

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List of architectural vaults

The following is a list of arched structures known in architecture as vaults. Glossary of architecture and list of architectural vaults are architecture lists.

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Loculus (architecture)

Loculus (Latin, "little place"), plural loculi, is an architectural compartment or niche that houses a body, as in a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. Glossary of architecture and Loculus (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Loggia

In architecture, a loggia (usually) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. Glossary of architecture and loggia are architectural elements.

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

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Lunette

A lunette (French lunette, 'little moon') is a half-moon–shaped architectural space, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void.

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Mandapa

A mandapa or mantapa is a pillared hall or pavilion for public rituals in Indian architecture, especially featured in Hindu temple architecture and Jain temple architecture.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Mansard roof

A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer windows. Glossary of architecture and mansard roof are architectural elements.

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Maqsurah

Maqsurah (مقصورة, literally "closed-off space") is an enclosure, box, or wooden screen near the mihrab or the center of the qibla wall in a mosque. Glossary of architecture and Maqsurah are architectural elements.

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Marriage stone

A marriage stone, nuptial stone or lintel stone is usually a stone, rarely wood, lintel carved with the initials, coat of arms, etc.

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Mascaron (architecture)

In architecture and the decorative arts, a mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, whose alleged function was originally to frighten away evil spirits so that they would not enter the building.

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Meander (art)

A meander or meandros (Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.

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Metope

In classical architecture, a metope (μετόπη) is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze, which is a decorative band of alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave of a building of the Doric order.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mihrab

Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying.

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Minaret

A minaret (translit, or translit; minare; translit) is a type of tower typically built into or adjacent to mosques. Glossary of architecture and minaret are architectural elements.

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Modillion

A modillion is an ornate bracket, more horizontal in shape and less imposing than a corbel. Glossary of architecture and modillion are architectural elements.

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Molding (decorative)

Moulding (British English), or molding (American English), also coving (in United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. Glossary of architecture and molding (decorative) are architectural elements.

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Mortise and tenon

A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Mullion

A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. Glossary of architecture and mullion are architectural elements.

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Muntin

A muntin (US), muntin bar, glazing bar (UK), or sash bar is a strip of wood or metal separating and holding panes of glass in a window. Glossary of architecture and muntin are architectural elements.

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Muqarnas

Muqarnas (مقرنص; مقرنس, or translit), also known in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe (from), is a form of three-dimensional decoration in Islamic architecture in which rows or tiers of niche-like elements are projected over others below. Glossary of architecture and Muqarnas are architectural elements.

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Narthex

The narthex is an architectural element typical of early Christian and Byzantine basilicas and churches consisting of the entrance or vestibule, located at the west end of the nave, opposite the church's main altar. Glossary of architecture and narthex are architectural elements.

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Nave

The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel.

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Newel

A newel, also called a central pole or support column, is the central supporting pillar of a staircase. Glossary of architecture and newel are architectural elements.

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Niche (architecture)

In architecture, a niche (CanE, or) is a recess or cavity constructed in the thickness of a wall for the reception of decorative objects such as statues, busts, urns, and vases. Glossary of architecture and niche (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Oculus (architecture)

An oculus (oculi) is a circular opening in the center of a dome or in a wall. Glossary of architecture and oculus (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Oeil-de-boeuf

An oeil-de-boeuf ("bull's eye"), also œil de bœuf and sometimes anglicized as ox-eye window, is a relatively small elliptical or circular window, typically for an upper storey, and sometimes set in a roof slope as a dormer, or above a door to let in natural light.

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Ogee

An ogee is an object, element, or curve—often seen in architecture and building trades—that has a serpentine- or extended S-shape (sigmoid).

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Ogive

An ogive is the roundly tapered end of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional object.

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Onion dome

An onion dome is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Glossary of architecture and onion dome are architectural elements.

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Opisthodomos

An opisthodomos (ὀπισθόδομος, 'back room') can refer to either the rear room of an ancient Greek temple or to the inner shrine, also called the adyton ('not to be entered'). Glossary of architecture and opisthodomos are architectural elements.

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Order (mouldings)

An order refers to each of a series of mouldings most often found in Romanesque and Gothic arches. Glossary of architecture and order (mouldings) are architectural elements.

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Oriel window

An oriel window is a form of bay window which protrudes from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground.

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Orthostates

In the context of classical Greek architecture, orthostates are squared stone blocks much greater in height than depth that are usually built into the lower portion of a wall. Glossary of architecture and orthostates are architectural elements.

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Outline of architecture

Architecture – the process and the product of designing and constructing buildings. Glossary of architecture and Outline of architecture are architecture lists.

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Outline of classical architecture

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical architecture: Classical architecture – architecture of classical antiquity, that is, ancient Greek architecture and the architecture of ancient Rome. Glossary of architecture and outline of classical architecture are architectural elements and architecture lists.

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Ovolo

Ovolo is an Italian word which mean "little egg".The ovolo or echinus is a convex decorative molding profile used in architectural ornamentation.

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Palaestra

A palaestra (or; also (chiefly British) palestra; παλαίστρα.) was any site of an ancient Greek wrestling school.

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Panel painting

A panel painting is a painting made on a flat panel of wood, either a single piece or a number of pieces joined together.

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Panelling

Panelling (or paneling in the United States) is a millwork wall covering constructed from rigid or semi-rigid components.

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Parapet

A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. Glossary of architecture and parapet are architectural elements.

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Parclose screen

A parclose screen is a screen or railing used to enclose or separate-off a chantry chapel, tomb or manorial chapel, from public areas of a church, for example from the nave or chancel. Glossary of architecture and parclose screen are architectural elements.

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Parterre

A parterre is a part of a formal garden constructed on a level substrate, consisting of symmetrical patterns, made up by plant beds, plats, low hedges or coloured gravels, which are separated and connected by paths.

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Parthenon

The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας|Parthenónas|) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.

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Pavilion

In architecture, pavilion has several meanings;.

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Pedestal

A pedestal or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars. Glossary of architecture and pedestal are architectural elements.

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Pediment

Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape. Glossary of architecture and Pediment are architectural elements.

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Pelmet

A pelmet (also called a "cornice board") is a framework placed above a window, used to conceal curtain fixtures.

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Pendentive

In architecture, a pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room.

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Peripteros

In Classical architecture, a peripteros (περίπτερος; see) is a type of ancient Greek or Roman temple surrounded by a portico with columns. Glossary of architecture and peripteros are architectural elements.

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Peristasis (architecture)

The peristasis (περίστασις) was a four-sided porch or hallway of columns surrounding the cella in an ancient Greek peripteral temple. Glossary of architecture and peristasis (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Peristyle

In ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a peristyle (from Greek περίστυλον) is a continuous porch formed by a row of columns surrounding the perimeter of a building or a courtyard.

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Phiale (building)

Phiale is a term in ancient Greek architecture for a building or columned arcade around a fountain, the equivalent of the Roman nymphaeum.

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Philo

Philo of Alexandria (Phílōn; Yəḏīḏyāh), also called italics, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.

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Piano nobile

Piano nobile (Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the architectural term for the principal floor of a palazzo. Glossary of architecture and Piano nobile are architectural elements.

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Pier (architecture)

A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge. Glossary of architecture and pier (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Pilaster

In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall. Glossary of architecture and pilaster are architectural elements.

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Pinnacle

A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. Glossary of architecture and pinnacle are architectural elements.

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Piraeus

Piraeus (Πειραιάς; Πειραιεύς; Ancient:, Katharevousa) is a port city within the Athens-Piraeus urban area, in the Attica region of Greece.

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Plate girder bridge

A plate girder bridge is a bridge supported by two or more plate girders.

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Plate glass

Plate glass, flat glass or sheet glass is a type of glass, initially produced in plane form, commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windscreens.

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Poppyhead (carving)

Poppyhead is a form of carving of the top of the end of a bench or a choir stall. Glossary of architecture and Poppyhead (carving) are architectural elements.

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Porch

A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. Glossary of architecture and porch are architectural elements.

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Portcullis

A portcullis is a heavy, vertically closing gate typically found in medieval fortifications, consisting of a latticed grille made of wood and/or metal, which slides down grooves inset within each jamb of the gateway.

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Porte-cochère

A porte-cochère is a doorway to a building or courtyard, "often very grand," through which vehicles can enter from the street or a covered porch-like structure at a main or secondary entrance to a building through which originally a horse and carriage and today a motor vehicle can pass to provide arriving and departing occupants protection from the elements. Glossary of architecture and porte-cochère are architectural elements.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. Glossary of architecture and portico are architectural elements.

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Propylaea

In ancient Greek architecture, a propylaion, propylaeon or, in its Latinized form, propylaeum—often used in the plural forms propylaia or propylaea (Greek: προπύλαια)—is a monumental gateway.

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Prostyle

Prostyle and Prostylos (πρόστυλος), literally meaning “with columns in front”, is an architectural term designating temples (especially Greek and Roman) featuring a row of columns on the front.

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Pseudodipteral

Pseudodipteral or Pseudodipteros (ψευδοδίπτερος, meaning “falsely dipteral”) describes an ancient Greek temple with a single peristyle surrounding the cella at the distance of two intercolumns and one column.

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Quadrangle (architecture)

In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or a courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings). Glossary of architecture and quadrangle (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Quatrefoil

A quatrefoil (anciently caterfoil) is a decorative element consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping circles of the same diameter. Glossary of architecture and quatrefoil are architectural elements.

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Question

A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information.

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Quoin

Quoins are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Glossary of architecture and Quoin are architectural elements.

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Rafter

A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members such as steel beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof shingles, roof deck, roof covering and its associated loads. Glossary of architecture and rafter are building engineering.

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Relic

In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.

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Reliquary

A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine, by the French term châsse., and historically also a type of ''phylactery'') is a container for relics.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Rib vault

A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs.

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Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886).

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Rood screen

The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. Glossary of architecture and rood screen are architectural elements.

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Roof

A roof (roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind.

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Roof comb

Roof comb (or roof-comb) is the structure that tops a pyramid in monumental Mesoamerican architecture.

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Rotunda (architecture)

A rotunda is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.

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Sanctuary

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.

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Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.

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Sash window

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes".

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Scroll (art)

The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached. Glossary of architecture and scroll (art) are architectural elements.

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Shinto shrine

A Stuart D. B. Picken, 1994.

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Ship

A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.

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Shoji

A is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture, consisting of translucent (or transparent) sheets on a lattice frame.

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Site-specific architecture

Site-specific architecture (SSA) is architecture which is of its time and of its place.

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Soffit

A soffit is an exterior or interior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of any construction element.

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Soil

Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.

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Span (engineering)

In engineering, span is the distance between two adjacent structural supports (e.g., two piers) of a structural member (e.g., a beam). Glossary of architecture and span (engineering) are architectural elements.

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Spandrel

A spandrel is a roughly triangular space, usually found in pairs, between the top of an arch and a rectangular frame, between the tops of two adjacent arches, or one of the four spaces between a circle within a square. Glossary of architecture and spandrel are architectural elements.

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Spire

A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. Glossary of architecture and spire are architectural elements.

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Springer (architecture)

In architecture, a springer is the lowest voussoir (wedge-shaped structural element) on each side of an arch.

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Squinch

In architecture, a squinch is a structural element used to support the base of a circular or octagonal dome that surmounts a square-plan chamber. Glossary of architecture and squinch are architectural elements.

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Stage (theatre)

In theatre and performing arts, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of productions.

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Staircase

A stairwell or stair room is a room in a building where a stair is located, and is used to connect walkways between floors so that one can move in height.

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Stepped gable

A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building.

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Stoop (architecture)

In American English, a stoop is a small staircase ending in a platform and leading to the entrance of an apartment building or other building. Glossary of architecture and stoop (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Storm door

A storm door is a type of door that is installed in front of an exterior access door to protect it from bad weather and allow ventilation.

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Structural element

In structural engineering, structural elements are used in structural analysis to split a complex structure into simple elements (each bearing a structural load).

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Sunburst

A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books.

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Sunroom

A sunroom, also frequently called a solarium (and sometimes a "Florida room", "garden conservatory", "garden room", "patio room", "sun parlor", "sun porch", "three season room" or "winter garden"), is a room that permits abundant daylight and views of the landscape while sheltering from adverse weather.

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Theatre of ancient Greece

A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. Glossary of architecture and timber framing are building engineering.

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Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor.

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Tracery

Tracery is an architectural device by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into sections of various proportions by stone bars or ribs of moulding.

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Transom (architecture)

In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it. Glossary of architecture and transom (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Trefoil

A trefoil is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings, used in architecture, Pagan and Christian symbolism, among other areas.

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Triglyph

Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze in classical architecture, so called because of the angular channels in them.

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Truss

A truss is an assembly of members such as beams, connected by nodes, that creates a rigid structure. Glossary of architecture and truss are architectural elements.

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Turret (architecture)

In architecture, a turret is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle. Glossary of architecture and turret (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Tympanum (architecture)

A tympanum (tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. Glossary of architecture and tympanum (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Undercroft

An undercroft is traditionally a cellar or storage room, often brick-lined and vaulted, and used for storage in buildings since medieval times.

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Vault (architecture)

In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

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Ventilation shaft

In subterranean civil engineering, ventilation shafts, also known as airshafts or vent shafts, are vertical passages used in mines and tunnels to move fresh air underground, and to remove stale air.

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Vestibule (architecture)

A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc. Glossary of architecture and vestibule (architecture) are architectural elements.

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Vitruvius

Vitruvius (–70 BC – after) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura.

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Volute

A volute is a spiral, scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the capital of the Ionic column.

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Voussoir

A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, which is used in building an arch or vault. Glossary of architecture and voussoir are architectural elements.

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Widow's walk

A widow's walk, also known as a widow's watch or roofwalk, is a railed rooftop platform often having an inner cupola/turret frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses. Glossary of architecture and widow's walk are architectural elements.

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Window

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Glossary of architecture and window are architectural elements.

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Wing wall

A wing wall (also "wingwall" or "wing-wall") is a smaller wall attached or next to a larger wall or structure.

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Woodworking

Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.

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Zaguan

Zaguan refers to a house plan configuration where a central passageway leads from a front door to a patio or a courtyard. Glossary of architecture and Zaguan are architectural elements.

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Ziggurat

A ziggurat (Cuneiform: 𒅆𒂍𒉪, Akkadian: ziqqurratum, D-stem of zaqārum 'to protrude, to build high', cognate with other Semitic languages like Hebrew zaqar (זָקַר) 'protrude') is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia.

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See also

Glossaries of science

• Glossary of Arabic toponyms
• Glossary of Hebrew toponyms
• Glossary of aerospace engineering
• Glossary of agriculture
• Glossary of archaeology
• Glossary of architecture
• Glossary of areas of mathematics
• Glossary of artificial intelligence
• Glossary of astronomy
• Glossary of biology
• Glossary of chemical formulae
• Glossary of chemistry terms
• Glossary of civil engineering
• Glossary of climate change
• Glossary of clinical research
• Glossary of computer science
• Glossary of economics
• Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering
• Glossary of elementary quantum mechanics
• Glossary of engineering: A–L
• Glossary of engineering: M–Z
• Glossary of environmental science
• Glossary of experimental design
• Glossary of geography terms (A–M)
• Glossary of geography terms (N–Z)
• Glossary of geology
• Glossary of geothermal heating and cooling
• Glossary of industrial automation
• Glossary of levelling terms
• Glossary of library and information science
• Glossary of mechanical engineering
• Glossary of medicine
• Glossary of meteoritics
• Glossary of meteorology
• Glossary of physics
• Glossary of power electronics
• Glossary of probability and statistics
• Glossary of psychiatry
• Glossary of quantum philosophy
• Glossary of robotics
• Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
• Glossary of string theory
• Glossary of structural engineering
• Glossary of vexillology
• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

Glossaries of the arts

• Glossary of architecture
• Glossary of glass art terms
• Glossary of graffiti
• Glossary of owarai terms
• Glossary of poetry terms
• Glossary of pottery terms
• Glossary of sculpting
• Glossary of theater terms
• Glossary of vexillology
• List of ukiyo-e terms

Visual arts terminology

• Chaser's pitch
• Chiaroscuro
• Chinese ritual bronzes
• Comics terminology
• Contemporary realism
• Dopping cement
• Drapery painter
• Fangyi
• Glossary of architecture
• Glossary of dyeing terms
• Glossary of woodworking
• Godless Painters
• Grand-disciple
• Masterpiece
• Openwork
• Pinxit
• Polychrome
• Proper right and proper left
• Provenance
• Reception piece
• Repoussé and chasing
• Sculpture
• Sfumato
• Shooting and crying
• White cube gallery

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

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