Hood

hood mould n (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) another name for dripstone [2] ...

In architecture, a hood mould, also called a label, is an external moulded projection from a wall over an opening to throw off rainwater. This moulding can be terminated at the side by ornamentation called a label stop.

hood molding : a projecting molding on the wall above an arch. Compare with relieving arch. Click here for pronounciation.

Hood Mold -- A projecting molding above an arch, doorway or window. Ionic Order -- A classical order characterized by a capital with spiral scrolls, called volutes. Lattice -- An openwork grill of interlacing wood strips used as screening.

Hood Moulding - A hood moulding is a projecting moulding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt. ©2007 The Probert Encyclopaedia. Data used under license.

Hood: Raymond Hood, Art Deco Architect Your starting place for exploring the life and works of Raymond Hood, an American architect who moved from the Neo-Gothic style to Art Deco and streamlined modern styles.

hood A projection that shelters an element such as a door or window. Ionic One of the five classical orders, characterized by capitals with spiral elements called "volutes," a fasciated entablature, continuous frieze, dentils in its cornice, ...

Hood: a small roof projecting from a wall above a window or door. Iconostasis: Icon wall separating nave from sanctuary in many Eastern-rite churches; symbolizes the division between God and man (Ukrainian: ikonostas).

Hood - Arched covering; when used as umbrella, called hood-mould. Hornwork -Freestanding quadrilateral fortification in front of the main wall. Impost - Wall bracket to support arch.

Hood mold A projecting molding to throw off the rain. On the face of a wall, above an arch, doorway or window. Also called "dripstone." Illustration with label molding from Stephen M. Clement House/Red Cross Building ...

Hood Fireplace canopy of stone or timber and plaster which collected and conducted smoke to the flue. Hood-Mould, Label, Drip-Stone ...

HOOD An arched covering; when used to throw off rainwater, called hood-mould. TOP IMPOST The uppermost part of a column or pillar supporting an arch.

Hood Moulding: A decorative Moulding over a window or door frame Hut: A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter; a shack. A temporary structure for sheltering troops.

Label - A hood or drip (stone) moulding over an opening, usually returning for a short distance down the sides of the opening. Lancet - (Refer: Early English).

Related architectural elements: arcade, cusp, hood moulding, spandrel, tympanum. Architrave: The lintel or flat horizontal member which spans the space between columns; in classical architecture, the lowest member of an entablature.

Between each pair of windows there is a deeply recessed minbar with a muqarnas hood. The upper windows are set into rectangular panels and are entirely open except for a low carved balustrade.

Canopy - A projection or hood over a door, window, niche, etc. Cantilever - A projecting elements, such as a beam or porch, supported at a single point or along a single line by a wall or column, ...

Known in most other areas as a smoke hood. They are commonly found in vernacular buildings where the central hearth moves to the gable, which might be thin or poorly mortared, and unable to accommodate a flue.

Projecting sounding board over a pulpit or a hood or projection over an altar, niche statue etc. Capital The top, head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster. Very often ornately decorated.

console - "S" shaped bracket used to support a door or window hood or a cornice coping - the uppermost course of a wall or parapet corbeled arch - masonry course advancing inward over the top of a wall opening ...

Marquise - A permanent hood that projects over an entrance to a building and is not supported by posts or columns.

CROCKET (Ital. uncinetti, Fr. crochet, crosse, Ger. Hdklein, Knollen), in architecture, an ornament running up the sides of gablets, hood-moulds, pinnacles, spires; generally a winding stem like a creeping plant, ...

rounded-headed windows with hood moldings arched porches balustraded balconies ...

An important feature of the style is a wide, projecting cornice supported with elaborate bracket ing. Windows with rounded or segmented arch tops typically have an eyebrow hood.

Parts of an arch: keystone, soffit, spring line, springer, voussoir. Measurements of an arch: rise, span. Related architectural elements: arcade, cusp, hood moulding, spandrel, tympanum.

Architects associated with Art Deco include Eliel Saarinen in France, and Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Henry Hohauser, L. Murray Dixon, and T. L. Pflueger in America.

High style buildings may have tall central or side towers. Windows have heavy hood moldings or lintels and have one or two panes in each sash. Paint schemes are multi-colored to pick out the ornate detail.

The habit is still worn by Franciscans at Missions San Miguel, Santa Barbara, San Antonio, and San Luis Rey and by the Capuchin Franciscans at Mission Santa Inés (the Capuchin habit being distinguished by the larger size of its hood).

Fort Hood, TX USA - Tuesday, December 02, 1997 at 23:15:08 (EST) Your page is good and has alot of info but you need to put dates on the architecture because that woulld help me a great deal. Joe ...

See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Ornament, Frame