French architect Jean Nouvel designs flamboyant and colorful buildings that defy classification.
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5. Glossary of Architectural Terms
6. Cruden, Freda and Cosyn, Maurice (1991) Design For Residential Construction. Canada: Mc Graw-Hill Ryerson Limited ...
French arch - a flat arch having voussoirs inclined to the same angle on each side of the center
intrados - the inside curve or surface of an arch or vault.
[From French archives, from Latin archva, from Greek arkheia, pl. of arkheion, town hall, from arkh, government, from arkhein, to rule.]
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FACADE, a French architectural term signifying the external face of a building, but more generally applied to the principal front.
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(FRENCH COUNTRY) French architecture is a unique style that offers a lot of charm with its distinctive characteristics. These house plans generally have asymmetrical exteriors with a combination of ornamental attributes that complete the design.
When, about the middle of the thirteenth century, French architects began the construction of the cathedral of Cologne after the exaggerated manner of Beauvais, they might almost have claimed that theirs was the first Gothic structure in Germany.
French architectural thought had been jolted at the turn of the century by the highly imaginative published projects of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Claude Nicholas Ledoux.
The prevailing styles of French architecture for most of the 17th and 18th centuries (Louis XIV, king 1643-1715, Louis XV, 1715-74, Louis XVI, 1774-92).
The Beaux-Arts and Nineteenth-century French Architecture. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1982).
^ Arthur Drexler, Editor, The Architecture of the École des beaux-arts. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977).
^ James Philip Noffsinger.
MANSARD ROOF: named after the French architect Francois Mansart (1598-1666); a double slope roof with the lower slope being longer and steeper, with a concave curve. Can be sloped on all four sides or just two sides (front and back). (IMAGE) ...
Mansard is named after the French architect Francois Mansart (1598-1666), who was known to use this style of roof. This roof style was particularly popular in the latter half of the 19th century, and is often seen on Victorian row houses.
The term "mansard" comes from the French architect François Mansart (1598-1666) of the Beaux Arts School of Architecture in Paris, France.
MANSARD ROOFa roof with double slopes; the lower part is nearly vertical and the upper part has a very low pitch. Named after the 17th-century French architect François Mansart.
MULLIONthin divisions that demarcate panes in windows or doors ...
The French Second Empire style is named after the Mansard-roofed buildings of France constructed during Napoleon III's Second Empire in the third quarter of the 19th century. Mansard roofs, named after 17th century French architect Franç ...
mansard roof A roof that has a double slope, with the lower slope steeper and longer than the upper one; a gambrel roof. Named after the seventeenth-century French architect François Mansart.
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