profile - an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics; "a biochemical profile of blood"; "a psychological profile of serial killers"
chart - a visual display of information ...
Profiles Index - page 2
Renzo Piano, Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect
Renzo Piano is often called a "High-Tech" architect because his designs showcase technological shapes and materials.
Profile boards - Boards of about a metre long used to transfer the plan outline of a building onto the ground. They are held securely in place by timber stakes. Lines are stretched between saw-cuts or marks, so the position of a wall can be fixed.
- the profile given to a projection on a building such as a string course. There are any number of profiles most of which are self explanatory.
An edge with a profile consisting of a series of parallel convex moldings, each of which called a reed.
Reeding is the reverse of fluting
Reeds are similar to cable / rope molding, except that cabling is angled.
Bullnose - A profile curved through 90 degrees. Often used for verandah roofs in corrugated iron.
FILLET A square profile moulding.
FINIAL An ornament rising from the peak of a pinnacle, spire, gable, etc.
FLUTING Ornament composed of a series of parallel concave mouldings, often found on column shafts.
Concern for the profile of the building in space spurred designers towards perfection in the articulation of parts, and these parts, known today as the orders of architecture, became intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, ...
The earliest forms of fortification in Islam were probably towers of a type still seen in Arabia today, of mud brick or dry stone wall, with a tapering profile, built on a circular plan.
The style was used primarily for high profile cultural, institutional and civic buildings, including the Los Angeles Music Center and the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, ...
As a general rule, large Romanesque towers are square with corner buttresses of low profile, rising without diminishing through the various stages. Towers are usually marked into clearly defined stages by horizontal courses.
A gambrel roof creates a profile that resembles a portion of a bell, being one or both of the lower roof slopes flare at the eaves. Separate dormer windows or a shed dormer with a series of windows were incorporated into the gambrel roof.
The profile of the roof is echoed by the overhangs on the front porch and the side window. The second floor has a string of clerestory windows within a continuous horizontal band of wood siding. The remainder of the house is yellow brick.
Ranch - A single-story house noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and minimal use of exterior and interior decoration.
Also the moulded frame of a door or window (often borrowing the profile of a classical architrave). Lugged: a moulded frame with horizontal projections at the top. Shouldered: similar, but with vertical projections in addition.
Joints are usually shoved and the bricks kept true and plumb by working to a bricklayer's line, which is stretched between profiles
Brick-on-edge - Brickwork, usually of headers, laid on edge for a capping or sill ...
OGEE (adjective: ogival) A double curve with the shape of an elongated S, and by extention, a moulding having the profile of an S-shaped curve.
Fillet - a thin, horizontal band in a straight profile, usually found on a cornice, architrave, or entablature, for decoration.
Foliate Capital - a capital decorated with foliage elements.
Frieze - an elongated carved architectural decoration.
carinated (10) -- having a profile, common on vessels, where a concave and a convex curve meet to procude a ridge or sharp edge like a keel; Latin carina (Warren, 140) Sample Image (Lesson 9)
carnelian (22) ...
Optical refinements - Subtle modifications to profiles or surfaces to correct the illusion of sagging or disproportion in a building. See entasis.
Opus Alexandrinum - Ornamental paving combining mosaic and opus sectile in guilloche design.
German - common 19th century wood siding pattern, with a combination of concave curve and flat profile
novelty - general term for 19th century wood siding with a decorative profile
spire - a tapering roof topping a tower; steeple ...
segmental arch An arch whose profile comprises an arc smaller than a semicircle.
seraph A celestial being having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art, usually depicted as a child's head with wings.
A pointed arch formed by two reversed curves, slightly S-shaped in profile. Used extensively in Gothic style architecture for windows, doors and applied decorative motifs.
Parapet
A low protective wall higher than the exterior wall of a building.
a splayed, horsehoe-shaped curve derived from the profile of a barrel-vaulted chaitya hall; used to frame doors, windows, and gables, and as a decorative motif in early south Asian architecture.
Chaitya hall ...
PANTILE
A roofing tile with an S-shaped profile, laid so that the down curve of one tile overlaps the up curve of the next one.
PARAPET
Wall for protection at any sudden drop. Also used to conceal a roof.
Moulding shaped by a three-quarter concave profile.
Three-quarter Moulding
Moulding shaped by a three-quarter convex profile.
Astragal - Molding with a semicircular profile
Astylar - Facade without columns or pilasters
Atrium - (plural: atria) inner court of a Roman or C20 house; in a multi-storey building, a toplit covered court rising through all storeys.
Moulding - A relatively narrow strip of wood, usually shaped to a curved profile throughout its length; used to accent and emphasize the ornamentation of a structure and to conceal surface or angle joints. Sometimes spelled molding.
entasis: slight convex curve given to the profile of columns (particularly Greek) and sometimes in horizontals.
exedra: an apse or niche.
Casing: Molding or trim available in many widths, thicknesses and profiles applied to the frame around a window or door to cover the space between the window frame and wall.
Ogee A specific shape where a concave arc flows into a convex arc. An ogee gutter has particular profile, is usually formed in cast iron, and is still very common in Victorian housing.
Oriel A projecting structure, normally a window.
Ogee
An edge or molding that has the profile of an S-shaped curve. An ogee arch is formed by the intersection of two such S-shaped curves.
Formalized lintel, the lowest member of the classical entablature. Also the moulded frame of a door or window (often borrowing the profile of a class...
Arris
Sharp edge where two surfaces meet at an angle....
"Grecian mouldings are composed of parts of ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas and other conic sections, and consist, mostly, of large, bold parts, which are so strongly marked, that each member of the profile is plainly seen at a very considerable ...
Casing Exposed molding or framing around a window or door, on either the inside or outside, to cover the space between the window frame or jamb & the wall. They come in a wide variety of profiles & sizes
Design pressure ...
The exquisite line-composition of Pershore and of York Abbeys, the refinement combined with masculine strength, the swift, steel-like curves of the moulding profiles, the perfected beauty of the carved foliage, ...
Above the stylobate is the plinth, a square or circular block which forms the lowest part of the base. The remainder of the base may contain many circular moldings with architecturally stylistic profiles.
They allow hot liquids and other unpleasant substances to be poured on those below. A defensive feature, they also were highly fashionable in late medieval and Tudor architecture, as they gave a dramatic profile to the tops of buildings.
Kerb - profile fixed to a flat roof deck abutting an adjacent wall, but not fixed to it. Usually of shaped timber construction.
 See also: Architecture, Arches, House, Gallery, Church
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