hood mould
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(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-mould - A projecting moulding to throw off the rain, on the face of a wall, above an arch, doorway, or window.
Hypaethral - Without a roof, open to the sky.
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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: 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 molding
A projecting molding on the wall above an arch. Compare withrelieving arch
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HOOD-MOULD A moulding that is applied over a window to throw off rainwater, especially in medieval architecture.
JAMB The vertical side of a fireplace opening, doorway, window, etc.
KEYSTONE The central stone or brick in an arch.
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 molding - a decorative molding over a window or door frame (p. 22, p. 24).
swans neck - a pediment with an open apex; each side terminates in curves resembling a swan's neck.
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HOOD
An arched covering; when used to throw off rainwater, called hood-mould.
IMPOST
The uppermost part of a column or pillar supporting an arch.
Hood
Hood molding is the projection from a wall over an arch. This type of molding, seen typically in Gothic architecture, was used to protect the archway from rainwater. It also serves as a decorative frame for the top of an arch.
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 molding; needs definition
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impost block or abacus: The slab at the top of a capital between the capital and the architectural member above. See also column, pier. Other parts of a column or pier: capital, shaft, column base.
Canopy - A hood suspended or projected over a door, window, tomb, altar, pulpit, niche, etc.
Sant' Apolinare in Classe Ravenna Italy (5th C.)
Capital - The head or crowning feature of a column.
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.
Drip, Dripstone Dripmould or Hood
A projecting string, hood, or molding over doorways, arches, windows, and niches, first installed to direct rainwater away from the opening. Dripstones can be very ornate.
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.
Vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a sm...
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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.
rounded-headed windows with hood moldings
arched porches
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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, ...
Windows are tall and narrow, some arched or curved at the top having decorative crowns and hood moldings. Sash windows have one or two panes. Paired and triple windows or a bay window were common.
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.
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 See also: Architecture, House, Arches, Brick, Ornament
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