Key The roughness of a surface which provides a bond for any application of paint, plaster, render, tiles etc, or spaces between laths or wire meshes which provide a grip for plaster.
Key A roughened surface which provides a bond for any application of paint, plaster, rendering, tiles etc.
King Post A central post of a period roof framework. Can be decorative.
key: the central voussoir, sometimes decorated, at the crown of an arch.
lancet: a narrow pointed window, much used in 13th-century Gothic.
Key
The keystone at the crown of an arch or at the intersection of two or more vaulting ribs.
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Key pattern
A geometric ornament consisting of horizontal and vertical straight lines repeated to form a band. Also called a fret.
greek key or meander
An ornamental motif consisting of continuous bands arranged in rectilinear forms. See also other repetative decorative motifs
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12. = return key
13. = carriage return
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Key Stone - the voussoir at the top of an arch. It is important structurally since it marks the apex of the vault.
Khirbet - Arabic word meaning ancient ruin.
KEY BLOCK
Tapered decorative element in a round or oval frame; also, central structural piece of a masonry arch (keystone).
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key A block, often used in a series, which projects beyond the edge of the enframement of an opening and is joined with the surrounding masonry. A block handled in such a manner is keyed to the masonry; see quoin.
A key organization that spans the ideals of the Arts and Crafts and Modernism as it developed in the 1920s was the Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) a German association of architects, designers and industrialists.
The key to Istanbul's success was its many markets or bazars which continue to be some of the busiest in the Islamic world. Soon after the conquest the city was provided with two bedestans and later a third at Galata.
a fret or key pattern originating in the Greek Geometric period.
Medium (pl. media)
(a) the material with which an artist works (e.g., watercolor on paper); (b) the liquid substance in which pigment is suspended, such as oil or water.
fret work/key/meander - Greek repeated rectangular pattern design only using straight lines throughout.
Fret / Greek Key
- ornamental patterns consisting of continuous bands of fillets interlocking at right angles in key shaped patterns. The fillets can be incised, in relief, or painted.
Sometimes referred to as "Greek Key".
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In classical architecture and decoration, a band of geometrical ornament composed of straight and vertical lines. Also called Greek fret or Greek key.Keystone ...
The key point, as Johnson emphasises, is that a garden is an enclosed place. gardenesqueThe term Gardenesque was coined by J C Loudon to mean 'like a garden' and 'recognizable as a work of art, as distinct from a work of nature'.
Brooming - Scratching a floating coat with a stiff broom to make a key for plaster, or giving a broom finish to concrete ...
Reading of the Bible is, thus, not limited to a record of past events, but is seen as a key to an understanding of a universal plan of history. Critical here is the relationship of the Old and New Testaments.
They are usually tuned in a minor rather than major key. Since most modern music utilizes major keys, the tone of colonial bells is quite distinctive and sounds a bit strange to people today.
Boss - Central stone of arch or vault; key stone.
Brattice - Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding.
Breastwork - Heavy parapet slung between two gate towers; defense work over the portcullis.
" One of the key architects in this group was Frank Lloyd Wright who is commonly referred to as the master or father of the Prairie style. Prairie houses were designed to blend into the flat, prairie landscape.
Circulation routes, the means by which access is provided through and around a building, are very often key elements in creating an understanding of architecture as users move from one part of a building to another through a carefully considered ...
This one-and-a-half storey service building has lap key corners and generous chinking. The doors are a contrasting lighter wood that is highly lacquered to good effect.
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" "York, Newstead, Westminster, Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverly, and Dundee,"works to which the key is lost, with the sentiment which created them ..."
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In their high-key colors these pictures dazzle the viewer with Mediterranean sunshine. When a neighboring collector showed them some South Seas pictures by Gauguin, they saw their theories of subjective color confirmed, and fauvism was born.
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.
ROOF Roofs can be steep, flat or gently sloped and take many forms, gable, gambrel, hipped, stepped gable, shed, pent or Mansard. The roof type is an important key to identifying the style of a building.
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A design style dating from the 1920s characterised by clean lines and a search for proportion in which form follows function; decoration is minimal. It originated in the Bauhaus School of Art in Germany; Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier were key ...
Early Renaissance architects, notably Alberti, seized on this discovery as the key to the beauty of Roman architecture and also to the harmony of the universe.
Decoration produced by rotating or turning wood on a lathe and cutting it to form twisted or bulbous designs. All periods have employed turning, especially on the legs of tables. The design of the turning is often the key to the period to which the ...
in selling the Ranch house as the ideal dwelling for Californians during the post-World War II boom. In 1946, May and Sunset published Western Ranch Houses, an instant bestseller that helped to further popularize modern Ranch houses as the key to the ...
In the early 19th century a truly waterproof cement, the key ingredient of modern concrete, was developed.
and battlements were the guns could be directed in relative safety against attacker. The placement of gun ports were usually at the weakest part of the fortification, which was generally the gate. See blind gun loop, cross and orb gun loop, key hole ...
Boss - central stone of arch or vault; key stone.
Bow - window as bay window but curved in plan.
Brattice or breteche - also known as hoarding. Timber tower or projecting wooden gallery; hoarding.
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