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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.
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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).
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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, ...
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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.
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Marquise - A permanent hood that projects over an entrance to a building and is not supported by posts or columns.
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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, ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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 ...
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See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Ornament, Frame
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