Wave scroll - A series of scrolls forming a stylized wave pattern
A Vitruvian wave is an example of a running ornament or running mold ...
wave or running dog
Greek ornamental design to look like a course of waves.
Wayo ...
Wave - Sinuous moulding.
Weathering - Sloping surface to throw off rainwater.
Wicket - Person-sized door set into the main gate door.
The Wave Field by Maya Lin
"The Wave Field" at the University of Michigan is a series of fifty grass waves in eight rows, covering approximately 10,000 square feet of the college campus.
3 Third wave
4 Images
4.1 Late 20th Century
4.2 Egyptian influenced funerary architecture ...
rise - a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
lift
moving ridge, wave - one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) ...
Echo - The repetition of sound caused by a sound wave coming against some opposing surface, being reflected imitation.
Edifice - A large building or house.
Elevation - Drawing of one aspect of a planned building in the vertical plane.
"Wide of that smoke and wave direct, O helmsman, thy vessel (Odyssey, xii, 219-20)." Let us flee, comrades, let us flee from this wave.
Emissivity A measure of an object's ability to emit long-wave infrared radiation or room temperature radiant heat energy. Emissivity varies from 0 (no emitted infrared) to 1 (100% emitted infrared).
Corrugated iron - Iron sheet covering formed in continuous wave profile to give rigidity- Available here 1852 - early 1900s, then replaced by steel. 26mm pitch was available 1890s to 1920.
Cove - A large concave moulding; often as a cornice.
A moulding with a double curvature is called a cyma or sometimes, a wave moulding. Used as the uppermost element in a cornice.
Cyma Recta
A cyma moulding having an upper concave curve and a lower convex curve ...
It was concerned mainly with decoration, and is characterised by flowing line and movement owing much to nature ie plant and wave forms. Had largely exhausted itself by 1914. In Germany, "Jugendstil" (youth style).
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Klotz, Heinrich. The History of Postmodern Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.
Sutro, Dick. West Coast Wave: New California Houses. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994.
The columns had a molded base which was placed under them and then sculpted figures on the lower part of the shaft were added. At the top of these shafts, were rectangular blocks of stone, which were carved in the shape of hair or other wave and ...
WAVE MOULDING: a moulding composed of concave and convex elements. WEATHERBOARDING: overlapping boards fixed (usually horizontally) on the external walls of timber- framed buildings.
 See also: Architecture, House, Ornament, Roman, Classical
  
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