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Writers on Monastic and Cathedral Antiquities
In monastic antiquities, the writings of Dugdale and Tanner stand pre-eminent among the books of this period, as does Dugdale's St.
Scribes were also important to Sumerian architecture, to make records of construction carried out for government, nobility, or royalty.
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To describe the buildings it is necessary to use architectural terms. For those not familiar with these terms, there are links in both the text and the image.
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a word to describe any kind of decoration on a home found in such places as the gables, vergeboards, porches, eaves, and around windows or doors. The decoration is generally created with a sawn scroll work technique.
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A term used to describe the later buildings of Le Corbiusier and his enthusiasts, like Denys Lasdun and Erno Goldfinger, which delighted in the effects of raw concrete, left unpolished, and showing the marks of the wooden moulds.
The term east end, is generally used to describe the area where the main altar is placed in a medieval church, even in those cases where the church is not oriented exactly toward the east. Ecclesia: Personification of Church.
canalThe term Canal is used in garden design to describe a long thin body of water, which is usually rectangular but may be curved. capitalA Capital is the crowning feature of a column (from the Latin caput=head).
Cloister bricks - a term sometimes used to describe oversized bricks.
Clot - the measure of clay which is forced into a stock mould.
Common brick - poorer quality brick used where structure and appearance is not important.
General term used to describe both private and public bath houses. Public hammams are found throughout the Islamic world and together with the mosque are regarded as one of the essential features of an Islamic city.
Coined in England to describe buildings supposedly inspired by pre-Georgian, late Medieval styles with half-timbered and/or masonry. Richard Norman Shaw: most prominent architect in England to promote Queen Anne.
In general, it can be said that the term "Islamic architecture" is used to describe too many things.
Fundamentalist Islam sees itself as a universal value system which must include the secular as well as religious aspects of life.
As Hasan-Uddin Khan, Martin Frishman and others have pointed out, the use of "Islamic" to describe architecture, urbanism, and art is problematic.
'ONTARIO COTTAGE' A modern term used to describe houses in Ontario from about 1830 to about 1870 if they are built with one-and-a-half storeys and have a gable roof featuring a gable over a dormer window; the later often with a round arch; ...
Victorian architecture is a broad term used to describe the more defined styles within the period, which was quite popular from about 1820 to the early 1900âEâ"¢s.
And all the people were gathered together as one man to the street which is before the water gate, and they spoke to Esdras the scribe, to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Bond - A term adopted to describe the various patterns used to lay bricks in order to give them maximum strength.
Realism (art and literature), in art and literature, an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life.
The purpose of this document is two fold: 1) to reveal the rich architectural heritage that exists in the city of Fullerton and 2) to describe and define the types of architecture that has evolved over the last 100 years for both residential and ...
Colorful, individualistic, and exuberant describe the Queen Anne style, the culmination of the elaborate architectural styles of the late 19th century.
Paint - To colour, to represent in colours, to describe, a colouring substance.
Painter - One who paints.
Palace - A royal house
Paradise - A park or pleasure ground.
“Colonial' is normally used to describe any spacious house with verandahs, but strictly speaking it refers to homes built of timber and tin prior to 1901.
ElidedUsed to describe a compound feature, e.g. an entablature, with some elements omitted or combined.
Some of the most beautiful work in glass, such for example as that at Auch, is so plainly intermediate between two styles that it is impossible to describe it as anything but "transitional.
The word "bungalow" has its origin in British India, where it was used to describe one-story houses with encircling porches. In California, where the term was first applied in the U.S.
Derived from the term grotto which was used in the 16th century to describe the ruins of the Domus Aurea (Nero's palace in Rome).
The practitioners of the style attempted to describe the sleekness they thought expressive of the machine age.
Loricate: wearing a cuirass, used to describe a statue in military dress, such as that of Augustus of Prima Porta.
Meta: a tall tapering marker, used in groups of three for the turning posts at the ends of the spina of a circus ...
In “Art Through the Ages', 12th edition, they describe the flying buttress as “like slender extended fingers holding up the walls, [and] are also important elements contributing to the distinctive ‘look’ of Gothic cathedrals.' ...
A compilation of those odd words I've collected along the way, for those hard to describe areas or just interesting terms unique to the world of an ornamentalist.
vernacular - used to describe buildings with little or no stylistic pretension, or those which may reflect a rural interpretation of high-style architecture of the day ...
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CRUCIFORM
Cross-shaped. Most often used to describe churches, with the nave forming the body of the cross, the altar and choir at the top (usually to the east), and the transept forming the arms pf the cross.
OGEEa double curve, usually used to describe an arch, window or moulding
ORIELa rounded or multi-sided projecting window
PARAPETa portion of the wall that projects above a roof ...
Decorated Gothic (1275-1375) - aka Geometric, Curvilinear, and Flamboyant - These terms describe primarily the fanciful tracery and ornamentation found in the window heads during this time.
Hanger Metal bracket supporting a joint between structural timbers. Can also describe a timber upright between rafters and ceiling joists.
Hardcore Broken brick rubble or stone which, consolidated, are used as a foundation in extreme cases.
Haunching: See Benching. Also term used to describe the support to a drain underground.
Hip: The external junction between two intersecting roof slopes.
The word Neoclassical is often used to describe an architectural style, but Neoclassicism is not actually any one distinct style.
niche: : A recess in the thickness of a wall.
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COMMON ARCHITECTURAL TERMS USED TO DESCRIBE HISTORIC BUILDINGS
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Chamber or stage in a tower where bells are hung.
Term used to describe the manner in which bricks are laid in a wall so that they interlock....
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In the shape of a cross, often used to describe the plan of a church.
Crypt
An underground chamber.
Ancient symbol of two circles coming together, used to describe the coming together of heaven and earth.
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Elevation: The elevation of a house is a flat (without perspective) drawing of one side of the house as seen when standing facing it squarely. Four elevations are needed to describe completely the vertical aspects of a rectangular house: front ...
Matchboard A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (we use this term to describe a type of door found in some period buildings).
MDF Medium density fibreboard.
in antis - columns are "in antis" when they stand between square piers called anta. Generally used to describe the composition of a portico's elements.
Marmosets: Grotesque human and animal figures sculpted in stone, often underlying jamb figures. From the Old French word marmouset (1280). At the end of the 15th century, the same word was used to describe small squirrel-like monkeys of the New ...
Desk popular in late 17th-century England and France distinguished by its sloping fall-front. The flap is hinged at the base and rests on lopers when open, folding up at an angle when closed. In America, used to describe a bedroom chest-of-drawers.
There are a great number of texts on the subject of castles and other fortifications of the period stated but few, if any, modern texts to my knowledge which specifically explain the terminology used to describe them.
when the newly established Museum of Modern Art in New York City mounted an exhibition on the new architecture. An accompanying book was prepared by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, who coined the term "International Style" to describe the ...
Motte-&-bailey - commonly used phrase to describe a mound of earth with wood or stone keep, surrounded by ditched and palisaded enclosure (or courtyard).
Moulding - masonry decoration; long, narrow, casts strong shadows.
Also term used to describe the support to a drain underground. Head - upper horizontal member of a door frame, window frame, partition frame etc.
Hip - the junction between the slopes at the angled end of a roof.
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