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Introduction To Architecture - Architectural Dictionary of Terms, Movements and Architects
Introduction To Architecture - Architectural Dictionary of Terms, Movements and Architects
Architectural Dictionary of
Terms, Movements and Architects
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determinants
High Style
Requirements Plan
(Churches, Pyramids, Greek Temples) Adrawing or
-Important Civic Structure diagram drawn on a
-Planed by an Architect plane: as a : a top
-Financial Backing or horizontal view
Indigenous of an object
Having originated in and being produced, Plane
growing, living, or occurring naturally in a A surface of such nature that a straight line
particular region or environment
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determinants
joining two of its points lies wholly in the especially : an underground passage or room
surface b : a flat or level surface b : an underground storage compartment
Precedent Verandah
prior in time, order, arrangement, or signifi- a usually roofed open
cance gallery or portico
Renaissance attached to the exte-
1 capitalized a : the transitional movement in rior of a building
Europe between medieval and modern times Vernacular
beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting of, relating to, or
into the 17th century, and marked by a human- characteristic of a
istic revival of classical influence expressed in period, place, or
a flowering of the arts and literature and by the group; especially : of,
beginnings of modern science b : the period of relating to, or being
the Renaissance c : the neoclassic style of the common building
architecture prevailing during the Renaissance style of a period or
2 often capitalized : a movement or period of place
vigorous artistic and intellectual activity
3 : REBIRTH, REVIVAL
Roof Pitch
Roof’s degree of slope
Shaft
the cylindrical pillar between the capital and
the base
Shutters
2 : a usually movable cover or screen for a
window or door
3 : a mechanical device that limits the passage
of light; especially : a
camera attachment
that exposes the film
or plate by opening
and closing an aper-
ture
Vault
1 a : an arched structure of masonry usually
forming a ceiling or roof b : something (as the
sky) resembling a vault c : an arched or dome-
shaped anatomical structure
2 a : a space covered by an arched structure;
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point, line, plane, & volume
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point, line, plane, & volume
Repetition
The act or process or an instance of repeating
or being repeated.
Rhythm
Movement or variation characterized by the
regular recurrence or alternation of different
quantities or conditions.
Solarium
A room, gallery, or glassed-in porch exposed
to the sun.
Spiral Approach
Structural Grid
Symmetry
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point, line, plane, & volume
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point, line, plane, & volume
Parabola
1 : a plane curve generated by a point moving
so that its distance from a fixed point is equal
to its distance from a fixed line : the intersec-
tion of a right circular cone with a plane
parallel to an element of the cone
2 : something bowl-shaped (as an antenna or
microphone reflector)
Stairwell
A vertical shaft in which stairs are located.
Structure
The skeleton of something that is constructed.
Truss
To support, strengthen, or stiffen by or as if by
a truss.
Urban
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or constitut-
ing a city.
Winter Garden
An indoor garden, like a greenhouse but also
has the benefit of indoor heat.
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arts & crafts
Lodge
A small house on the grounds of an estate or a
park, used by a caretaker or gatekeeper.
Parterre
An ornamental flower garden having the beds
and paths arranged to form a pattern.
Pergola
An arbor or a passageway of columns support-
ing a roof of trelliswork on which climbing
plants are trained to grow.
Stickley
American furniture designer. A leader of the
Arts and Crafts Movement, he is credited with
creating the Mission furniture style.
Stucco
A durable finish for exterior walls, usually
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arts & crafts
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frank lloyd wright
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frank lloyd wright
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le corbusier
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le corbusier
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mies van der rohe
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aalto
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aalto
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kahn
Laboratory
A place equipped for experimental study in a
science or for testing and analysis; broadly : a
place providing opportunity for experimenta-
tion, observation, or practice in a field of
study.
Moat
deep and wide trench around the rampart of a
fortified place (as a castle) that is usually filled
with water.
Monumentality
Very great.
Pastiche
A literary, artistic, musical, or architectural
work that imitates the style of previous work.
Spent Light
“I sense Light as the giver of all presence’s,
and material as spent light. What is made by
light casts a shadow, and that shadow belongs
to light. I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence,
Silence to Light; an ambiance of inspiration, in
which the desire to be, to express, crosses with
the possible.” - Louis Kahn
Teak
1 : a tall East Indian timber tree (Tectona
grandis) of the vervain family
2 : the hard yellowish brown wood of teak
used especially for furniture and shipbuilding
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post moderism - late modern
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post moderism - late modern
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Index M
Centralized Organi- Fascia 9
zation 5 Fenestration 11
Chimney 7 Five points of architec- Masonry 7
Circulation 2 ture 13 Mayan Architecture 11
Civic Structure 2 Fluidity 15 Minaret 3
Cladding 16 Folly 2 Minimalism 19
A
Clerestory 11 Fragmentation 19 Moat 18
Acoustics 16 Cloister 5 Free façade 13 Modular system 13
Additive Form 5 Clustered Organiza- Frieze 5 Monastery 13
Adobe 11 tion 5 Frontal Approach 5 Mondrian 15
Aesthetics 2 Collective housing Frontality 15 Monumentality 18
Aisle 10 13 Mosaic 7
Altar 2 Colonnade 5 G Moulding 7
Amphitheatre 16 Colonnade Façade 5 Mullion 11
Gallery 11
Anthropomorphism 16 Column 2
Arch 2 Comice 10. See
Gantry 10 N
Geodesic Dome 3
Architectural Prom- Column Nave 3
Girder 10
enade 13 Concept 2 New Regionalism 16
Gothic 3
Architrave 5, 15 Cornice 5 New York Five 19
Grid Organization 5
Assemblage 19 Corrugated Ceiling 7 Grotto 7
Atrium 11 Courtyard 16 O
Auditorium 7 Crypt 7 H
Axial Organization 11 Curtain Wall 11 Obelisk 5
Axis 5 Half Timbered Wall 9 Oblique Approach 5
D Hearth 11 Onyx 15
B Hierarchy 5 Order 6
Datum 5 High Style 3 Organic 11
Balcony 11 Deconstructivism 19
Baluster 9 Decorated Shed 19 I P
Balustrade 9 Depressed Floor
Bannister 7 Plan 16 Indigenous 3 Pagoda 3
Barrel Vault 2 Derrida 19 Infill Panel 10 Palladian Window 20
Base 2 Dome 2 Inglenook 11 Palladio 13
Bay Window 9 Domino system 13 International style 13 Parabola 8
Beam 5 Dormer 19 Parapet 11
Bearing Wall System 5 Double height space
K Parterre 9
Beaus arts classicism 7 13 Partitioin 15
Karelian House 16 Pastiche 18
Berm 5 Duck 19 Keystone 19
Beton Brut 13 Pavillion 15
Both - And 19 E L Pediment 10, 20
Brise-soleil 13 Pendentive 3
Eaves 11 La Citta Nuova 10 Pergola 9
Building envelope 13
Ebony 15 Laboratory 18 Piano Nobile 11
Bungalow 9
Elevated base plan Laminated Timber 16 Piazza 3
Buttress 9
13 Leaded Glass 11 Pier 11
C Entablature 5 L’Esprit Nouveau 13 Pilaster 10
Essential joys 13 Lightwell 16 Piloti 13
Canopy 16 Expressionism 15 Linear Organization 5 Plan 3
Cantilever 5 Lobby 15 Planar Form 6
Capital 2 F Lodge 9 Plane 3
Cathedral 2 Louvres 16 Platonic Solid 6
Façade 5
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Plaza 15 T
Plinth 15
Podium 15 Tabula Rasa 13
Pop Art 20 Teak 18
Porch 11 Tectonic 10
Porte-Cochere 11 Temple 15
Portico 13 Topography
Prairie Style 11 6, 17
Precedent 4 Tower 6
Primary Elements 6 Transformation 6
Primary Solids 13 Travertine 15
Prototype 13 Tripartite 12
Pulpit 11 Truss 8
Purism 13
U
R Umbrella roof 14
Radial Organization 6 Undercroft 14
Reinforced concrete Universal Space
13 15
Renaissance 4 Urban 8
Repetition 6
Rhythm 6
V
Roof Pitch 4 Vault 4
Rustication 20 Ventilation
10, 20
S Verandah 4
Sauna 17 Vernacular 4
Shaft 4 Villa 9
Shingle Style 11
Shingles 11
W
Shutters 4 Weissenhof 15
Skylight 12 Werbund 10
Skyscraper 12 Werkbund 20
Smooth change 15 Winter Garden 8
Solarium 6
Spent Light 18
Spiral Approach 6
Spire 12
Stairwell 8
Stickley 9
Strip windows 13
Structural Grid 6
Structure 8
Stucco 9
Surface articulation 13
Surrealism 9
Symmetry 6
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