Geometrical

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.

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.

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.

Tracery: Geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows (fig.2, C). This type of stonework decoration became more complex during the High Gothic and Flamboyant phase.

Interlocking geometrical designs cut from the piece's own wood and used ornamentally. G Gadroon ...

Geometrical ornament, e.g., zigzag, crenelation Exterior: two facade towers Exterior: square crossing tower Interior: plain archways and capitals (cushion capitals) devoid of ornament Interior: arcades Interior: gallery Interior: clearstory ...

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.

basinThe word Basin is used in French gardens (pronounced 'bass-an') to mean a geometrical pool of the type made in Baroque gardens.

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.

Other distinctive geometrically patterned carpets were made under the Mamelukes in pale blue, red, and yellow.

As in El Tránsito, the vegetal and geometrical stucco decorations are purely Moorish, but unlike the former, the epigraphic texts are in Hebrew.

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.

Art Deco ornamentation consists of low-relief geometrical designs, often with parallel straight lines, zigzags, chevrons, and stylized floral motives.

A vertical structure, usually circular in form (but may be molded on any regular geometrical figure), designed to support an entablature or other weight above it. Used to strengthen and decorate a building, it may be made of any building material; e.

diaper: A pattern formed by small, repeated geometrical motifs set adjacent to one another, used to decorate stone surfaces in architecture and as a background to illuminations in manuscripts, wall painting or panel painting.

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.

massing The composition of the different geometrical forms that make up a house or building. overhang Portion of a roof that projects beyond the outer walls.

Hemispherical dome made of prefabricated geometrically shaped units interconnecting to give stability in all directions. Gothic ...

Stone openwork pattern in the head of a window or screen made up of moulded bars forming geometrical figures, and the like. Barbican Outwork defending the gate or entrance of a castle.

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, ...

The upper portion of the window within the arch was filled with tracery, consisting at first of geometrical patterns, then later of flowing patterns, ...

See also: Geometric, Architecture, Ornament, Roman, House