scape - erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
flower stalk
stalk, stem - a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ ...
Landscape Architecture - Careers
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Landscape Gardening and Architecture
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Landscape - Portion of land that the eye can comprehend in a single view.
Lantern - Tower with a window on top of a dome.
Latrine - A privy.
Townscape - The architectural characteristics of a group of buildings and other elements, of the spaces between them and of their relationship to each other.
Townscape Heritage Initiative
- a Heritage Lottery Fund initiative first floated in April 1988, "to support strategic action by partnerships of public (and other) bodies to address problems of disrepair, erosion of quality, ...
streetscape - the combined visual image from all of the physical elements found on both sides of a street, including the property up to the building front
stucco - exterior plaster
stretcher - the long side of a brick when laid horizontally ...
In landscape gardening, a formal area of planting, usually square or rectangular.
parting strip
A wood or metal strip fastened to the inside perimeter of a window frame used to separate adjacent sliding sash.
cultural landscape - the portion of the exterior environment that has been modified, influenced, or given special cultural meaning by people; includes large parks, a group of farms, countryside, ...
New Jersey Churchscape Glossary
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The 'Roman campagna' is the countryside around Rome - which was painted by landscape artists (eg Claude and Poussin) and helped to give form to English gardens in the eighteenth century.
By the mid 1950's, the ranch house plan style begin to take shape across the American landscape. In fact, it is still a popular style in use today.
Throughout the period of the Renaissance, architectural and landscape backgrounds play an important part in design.
The traditional architecture of Turkey reflects this varied landscape and rich history with many regional styles. A large range of building materials are employed including mud and baked brick, wood, stone and nomad tents.
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In the subsequent generation, the innovations in aerial and linear perspective, the rendition of landscape, the powerful figural types, and the rigorous compositions were consolidated and further refined.
Andrew Jackson Downing Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture 1865 ...
An approach to architecture and landscape design first defined by English theorists in the later 18th century.
Poussin, Nicolas. Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion. 1648. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Newel - See Stair.
Niche - A vertical recess in a wall, pier, etc., usually arched and containing a statue, urn, or other decorative object.
" L andscape vol. 25 (1981): 29-36.
Edwards, Brian. Courtyard Housing: Past, Present and Future. Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 2005.
Polyzoides, Stefanos, Roger Sherwood, and James Tice. Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A Typological Analysis.
Theme Town: A Geography of Landscape and Community in Flagstaff, AZ Includes a geographical and architectural tour through Flagstaff, AZ. Published by iUniverse, 2003.
Campidoglio (Capitol, 1538-1564) in Rome had already provided a model for the public square, and villas such as Vignola's Villa Farnese (begun 1539) in Caprarola showed how these important buildings could extend axial ties into the townscape.
Like Shingle Style and Prairie School houses, period houses had an intimate relationship with the landscape. Often sprawling across the width of a lot, period houses had two yard areas, a formal front and an informal back yard.
Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
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It is significant to note that the style of this painting with its loose impressionistic style and suggestion of landscape space echoes a category of ancient painting called sacral-idyllic landscapes: ...
The great landscape architect Louis Le Notre set up the boulevard in the time of Louis XIV, but it was not until the era of the Second Empire that the buildings were built and the very rich and famous moved in.
Wright's vision for America, a place where design commingled with nature, expanding the idea of architecture to include a civilization, a utopian ideal that integrated spiritual harmony and material prosperity across a seamless, unspoiled landscape.
Plot Plan - A top view of your finished house and landscape orientation.
Ply Cap - A plain shaped molding, 1/4 rounded to provide a smooth edge along the baseboard.
A drawing which shows the topography of a place, i.e. its landscape and buildings.
Tracery
Fine decorative carving in either wood or stone found in the design of windows, vaults, screens and panels.
Earthenware made in The Netherlands, known for its heavy glaze. A blue underglaze decoration of conventional patterns with town and landscape scenes on a white background.
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Tree preservation order - Made under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by the local planning authority to protect trees of importance for amenity, landscape and nature conservation.
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Drawing- one of several types of technical drawings of a building, project, or landscape ...
Sites and Ancient Monuments
Tree Management
Tree Preservation Orders
State of the Historic Environment Report
Registered Parks and Gardens
London Squares
Hackney Plaques and Local History
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structure, often octagonal, commonly found in parks, gardens, and spacious public areas. Gazebos are freestanding, or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides; they provide shade, basic shelter, ornamental features in a landscape, ...
Craftsman-style bungalow reflected, said Stickley, "a house reduced to it's simplest form... its low, broad proportions and absolute lack of ornamentation gives it a character so natural and unaffected that it seems to... blend with any landscape." ...
" Prairie houses were designed to blend in with the flat, prairie landscape. The first Prairie houses were usually plaster with wood trim or sided with horizontal board and batten. Later Prairie homes used concrete block.
Roman Catholic church (the many seeds within one fruit), fertility (the large number of seeds), and the blood of Christ (the rich red of pomegranate juice). The pomegranate and other designs on this wall are reminders that the California landscape ...
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