Geometric window: A fixed framed window made up of 2 or more angles (i.e., pentagon or trapezoid).
Glazing: The glass panes or lights in the sash of a window. Also the installation of glass in a window.
Geometrical: style of tracery in which the patterns are formed by regular circles or segments of circles.
giant order: columns or pilasters rising from the ground floor through more than one storey.
Geometric medieval moldings carved on capitals
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Geometric
(a) based on mathematical shapes such as the circle, square, or rectangle; (b) a style of Greek pottery made between c. 900 and 700 B.C., characterized by geometric decoration.
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Geometric
Any shape or form that has a more mathematical than organic design. Geometric designs are typically made with straight lines, or geometric shapes including circles, ovals, triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, etc.
Geometrical stairs usually enclose a well, which may vary very much in size and shape from merely a narrow slit between the flights to a square opening admitting of ample ventilation and lighting.
Geometric construction is expressly shown in ribbed vaults, which are additionally accented with the color and texture. Ribs in late-Gothic vaults get thickened and create nets or completely 'get lost' in the complex crystal vaults.
(= geometrical form, outline) → Form f; what shape is it? → welche Form hat es?
Inlay of geometric design, used for decorative flooring.
Partner's desk
Desk large enough to seat two people facing each other with working drawers on both sides.
fret A geometrical pattern of horizontal and vertical lines making a pattern band. Also called a "meander" or a "greek key"
frieze The middle portion of an entablature, or any decorated horizontal band.
A four-lobed geometrical motif with a triangular projection at the intersection of two adjacent foils. Compare with cinqfoil, trefoil, quatrefoil
barbican
Outwork defending the entrance to castle ...
Fret - A geometrical ornament of horizontal and vertical straight lines repeated to form a band.
arabesque - geometric intricate surface decoration; no human figures; has interlaced patterns.
architrave - the lowest part of an entablature, or the molded frame around a door or window opening. (p. 59).
Ordinaries
- bold geometric patterns such as chevrons placed on a shield.
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Barbed Quatrefoil: A four-lobed geometrical motif with a triangular projection at the intersection of two adjacent foils. Barbican: The gateway or outworks defending the drawbridge; An outwork or forward extension of a castle gateway.
knot a small, rectangular garden, developed in Tudor times, that consists of an intricate, geometric pattern, or knot, laid out in dwarf plants such as box or rosemary; sometimes the pattern takes the form of objects such as heraldic beasts.
This gave a new geometric articulation-the ribbed vault. Ribs did not modify the structural characteristics of the groin vault, but they offered constructional advantage and emphatically changed the vault's appearance.
basinThe word Basin is used in French gardens (pronounced 'bass-an') to mean a geometrical pool of the type made in Baroque gardens.
In later buildings decorative patterns are introduced which reach their culmination under the Seljuks with complex geometric patterns and inscriptions.
The eastern end is square and is filled by an enormous Gothic window with Geometric tracery.
Internally, there is an emphasis upon length and horizontality.
Art Deco became more geometric and linear as objects were increasingly mass produced and as the United States supplanted France as the spiritual center of the movement.
Coincidentally with the building of Westminster went on such works as the retro- choir of Exeter, the nave of Lichfield, and Tintern Abbey, wherein are the first signs of change from Early English to Geometrical.
Among the most notable styles of architecture are Art Deco, a style popular in the 1920's and 1930's characterised by geometrical shapes and stylised natural forms and symmetry; Art Nouveau, ...
Zigzag Moderne was highly decorative with the façade of zigzag buildings adorned with geometric ornamentation from which it gets its name.
The pyramids of Ancient Egypt went through many changes before they took on the geometric shape that we are accustomed to seeing. Egyptian tombs originally began as a simple pit in the sandy desert that was lined with a reed mat.
Decorated Gothic lives up to its name: it delights in geometric ornament and variety, possessing a certain restlessness. Decorated buildings tend to strive for the massive, but cover these with geometrical patterns and points of naturalistic carving.
Chip-carvingSimple geometrical patterns cut into a surface.ChoirThe part of a cathedral, monastic church or collegiate church where services are sung.
There are various forms of bar tracery such as:- Geometrical tracery characteristic of c1250 to 1310.consisting of circles or foiled circles in the head.
Y Tracery. A type of tracery each mullion branches in two forming a Y shape. Typical of c1300.
Buildings were planned on a grid that contained circles, squares, and an intricate system of often overlapping geometric shapes. The aim was to create a harmonious design.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: (1) ART DECO: Smooth wall surface, often stucco; smooth-faced stone and metal; polychromy, often with vivid colors; forms simplified and streamlined; geometric designs including zigzags, chevrons; ...
Combining Pueblo Revival with Art Deco architecture, these homes are decorated with geometric patterns and Native American designs.
Santa Fe Style.
Art Deco ornamentation consists of low-relief geometrical designs, often with parallel straight lines, zigzags, chevrons, and stylized floral motives.
Decorated Gothic (1275-1375) - aka Geometric, Curvilinear, and Flamboyant - These terms describe primarily the fanciful tracery and ornamentation found in the window heads during this time.
Parquet Floor - Wood flooring laid to form geometric patterns.
Parting Strip - A wood or metal strip fastened to the inside perimeter of a window frame used to separate adjacent sliding sash.
Partition - The name given to an interior wall.
Bastioned trace: The geometrical system of arrow headed bastions and ramparts, which were used to defend fortifications dating from the 16th century. See arrow headed bastion, bastion.
Queen Anne sash - A window with many small geometrical shaped panes running along the edges
quoins - Alternating large and small stone, brick or wood used to decorate and accentuate the corners of a building ...
Prismatic panel - Geometric repetitive low-relief form (e.g. lozenge).
Putti - Small chubby indents, often used for decoration. They derive from both cherubim and cupids.
Bargeboards cut in fanciful geometric or naturalistic shapes trim the steep roofs. Porches are trimmed with lacy cut out brackets. Modest houses are symmetrically built but have steeply pitched roofs, dormers, and porches edged with bargeboard.
The 1925 Paris Exhibition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs launched the Art Deco style, which echoed the Machine Age with geometric decorative elements and a vertically oriented design.
Flying stair: cantilevered from the walls of a stairwell, without newels; sometimes called a Geometric stair when the inner edge describes a curve.
Art deco : A popular design of the 1920s and "30s characterized by bold outlines, geometric and zigzag forms.
asbestos : A fibrous, incombustible material once used in building construction. No longer allowed due to health risk (amiante).
There is nothing distinctively Christian about the layout of the vault of the catacomb by dividing it up into geometric shapes: ...
Foliated A leaf-like decoration (usually carved) French Doors A pair of casement windows serving as doors, traditionally glazed above and panelled below, but nowadays usually all glass Fretwork Apattern of interlaced, geometric ...
Geodesic Dome - Hemispherical dome made of prefabricated geometrically shaped units interconnecting to give stability in all directions.
Gothic - West European architectural style of the 12th -15th centuries, characterised by pointed arches.
The upper portion of the window within the arch was filled with tracery, consisting at first of geometrical patterns, then later of flowing patterns, ...
San Andrea al Quirinale and Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, less than a mile apart in Rome, succinctly summarizes what these two masters shared and how they diverged. In no other buildings of the period is the simple geometrical ...
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