Bifora Divided by a

colonnete into two arches.

Blind Arcade A decorative

row of arches applied to a wall as a
decorative element, esp. in Romanesque
buildings.

Blind Balustrade-vertical
supports of this or any other form, for a handrail or
coping, the whole being called a balustrade.
Blind balustrade: the same applied to the wall
surface

Blind Window-a blind for

privacy or to keep out light
Chaines A type of wall decoration
used in 17th century French domestic
architecture; consists of vertical bands of
rusticated masonry which divides the facades
Chinoiserie A Western
European and English architectural and
into panels or bays.
decorative fashion employing
Chinese ornamentation and structural
elements, particularly in 18th cent. Rococo
design.

Coffering Colossal order,

1. Ceiling with deeply recessed panels, often highly
ornamented. giant order An order more
2. Similar effects executed in marble, brick, concrete, than one story in height.
plaster, or stucco.
 Cupola
Corbiestep, Catstep, 1. A domed roof or ceiling.

Crowstep The stepped edge of a gable 2. A domed structure, often set on a

circular or polygonal base on a roof or
masking a pitched roof, found in northern European set on pillars; often glazed to provide
masonry, 14th to 17th cent., and in derivatives. light in the space below, or louvered
toprovide ventilation in that space.

Eclecticism The selection of
elements from diverse styles for architectural
decorative designs, particularly during the
second half of the 19th cent. in Europe and
the US.
Elizabethan
Architecture The transitional style
between Gothic and Renaissance in England, named
after Elizabeth I (1558–1603); mainly country
houses, characterized by large mullioned windows
and strapwork ornamentation.
 Frontispiece
Facade The exterior face of a
building
1. The decorated which
front wall is
orthe
bayarchitectural front,
of a building.
sometimes distinguished from the other
2. An ornamental
faces porch or chief pediment.
by elaboration of architectural or
ornamental
3. A fancy rendering details.an architectural
prefacing
presentation, esp. a student project in architectural
school.

Georgian style In Great Britain,

the term “Georgian” is usually applied to the
prevailing architectural style during the reigns of
George I through George IV, from 1714 to 1830;
derived from classical, Renaissance, and Baroque
forms.
Greek Revival style An
architectural style based on the reuse of ancient Greek
forms in architecture. Public buildings in this style
were usually symmetrical in plan and rectangular in
shape.
 International style An architectural
style that is minimalist in concept, devoid of regional
characteristics, stresses functionalism, and rejects all
Lucarne A small dormer
nonessential decorative elements; it emphasizes the horizontal window in a roof or spire.
aspects of a building; developed during the 1920s and 1930s,
in western Europe principally in the Bauhaus school, and also
in America.

Mansard roof
1. (US and Brit.) A roof having a double slope
on all four sides, the lower slope being much
steeper

Lunette
1. A crescent-shaped or semicircular area on a wall or
vaulted ceiling, framed by an arch or vault.
2. An opening or window in such an area.
3. A painting or sculpture on such an area.
 Neoclassical style An
architectural style based primarily on the use of forms

Modernism
of Classical antiquity used in both public buildings and
opulent homes; aspects of this style are imitative C20of the
architectural
earlier Classical Revival style movement (also
(often called called
“Early
Classical Revival”)Modernism)
that was most thatpopular
sought from
to sunder
aboutall
stylistic
1770 to 1830; others are imitative of the Greek
Revival style that was popular from about 1830 to
1850. (4 examples of Buildings)

Oeil-de-boeuf
1. A figure or ornament of concentric bands.
2. A round or oval aperture, open, louvered, or
glazed; an oculus or oeil-de-boeuf.
3. The enclosure of such an aperture, a double

Romanesque Revival
arched frame with two or four key voussoirs.
4. A circular aperture in a masonry
(or
wall;
Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed in
the late 19usually
th formed
century by voussoirs
inspired orand
by the 11th tapered
12thbricks
century Romanesque style of architecture. Popular
features of these revival buildings are round arches,
semi-circular arches on windows, and belt courses. (4
examples of Buildings)
 Stuart architecture English
Salomonica A architecture of the late Renaissance from
about 1603 to 1688, especially during the
twisted or spiral column. period of the Stuart dynasty.

Oriel Window- Arabesque-an ornamental

projection from the wall of a building, design consisting of intertwined flowing
typically supported from the ground or by lines, originally found in Arabic or Moorish
corbels. decoration
 Pilaster
Piano Nobile
a rectangular column,
-the main
especially
story of a large
one projecting
house (usually
from athe
wall
first
floor), containing the principal rooms.

Antae- or sometimes parastas, is an

architectural term describing the posts or
pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance
of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting
piers which terminate the walls of the naos

Engage Columns an engaged

column is a column embedded in a wall and partly
projecting from the surface of the wall, sometimes
defined as semi or three-quarter detached.
String Course-
decorative horizontal band on the exterior
wall of a building. Such a band, either
Scroll an ornament,
resembling a partly unrolled sheet of
plain or molded, is usually formed of
paper or having a spiral or coiled
brick or stone.
form.

Stucco- material made of aggregates, a

binder, and water, used as a decorative coating for
walls and ceilings, and as a sculptural and artistic
material in architecture.

Ashlar- stone masonry which is

formed using finely dressed stones of same
size, shape, and texture laid together in
cement or lime mortar of equal size joints at
right angles to each other
 Rustication-In classical
architecture rustication is a range of masonry
techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that
contrasts in texture with the smoothly
finished, squared block masonry surfaces
called ashlar with visible spacing between
stones.
Barge board
(Victorian)- a board fastened to the
projecting gables of a roof to give them strength,
protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed
end of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof
to which they
Corbie step-A crow-stepped
gable, also known as a stepped gable or
corbie step, is a design for a building's
triangular gable end. It takes the form of a
stair-step pattern at the
top of the stone or brick parapet wall which
projects above the roofline
Half-timbering- a structure
with a frame of load-bearing timber, creating
spaces between the timbers called panels,
which are then filled-in with some kind of
nonstructural material known as infill. The
frame is often left exposed on the exterior of
the building
 Onion Dome- a dome
Trompe
whose shape resembles an onion andl’oeil
is - in
usually associated with Russian
classical architecture, an art technique that
architectural style.
uses realistic imagery to create the optical
illusion that the depicted objects exist in
three dimensions. Forced perspective is a
comparable illusion in architecture

Serrated Dome is also

like a bulbous dome and the onion dome

Melon Dome- a
hemispherical dome with a circular base and a
ribbed vault divided into individual webs, each
of which has a baseline curved segmentally in
plan and also curved in elevation
 Saucer Dome- a dome Helm Roof- a 4-faced
that is less than a hemisphere in form or steeply pitched roof rising to a point from
that shows less than a hemisphere on the a base of four gables
exterior

Horseshoe Arch-
Horseshoe arches can take rounded, pointed
or lobed form Multifoil Arch an architectural -
element of an arch containing multiple foils;
symmetrical leaf shapes, defined by overlapping
circles.
 Ogee Arch- the name given to
Lancet Arch
objects, elements, and -curves—often
an arch seen in
architecture and building trades—that have
with an acutely pointed head
been variously described as serpentine-,
extended S-, or sigmoid-shaped

Curtain Wall- an outer

covering of a building in which the outer walls
are non-structural, utilized only to keep the
weather out and the occupants in.