Architecture

Words Meaning

Building Material:
Timber
Stone
Glass
Concrete
Steel
Reinforced material

Aesthetic Perception:
Well-designed
Eyesore
Elegant
Ugly
Controversial
Pleasing Geometric forms

Architectural style:

Modernist means relating to the ideas and

Modernist methods of modern art.
Post modern
Standardised
Traditional
International style
Art deco (High-tech also included here.

Parts of a building:

A porch is a sheltered area at the entrance to a

Porch building. It has a roof and sometimes has walls.
A patio is an area of flat blocks or concrete next
Patio to a house
 Any face of a building given special
architectural treatment/ The facade of a
building, especially a large one, is its front
Façade wall or the wall that faces the street.
Walls
Foundations

Features:
Practical
Functional
High-tech
Energy-efficient

A place or building that

is derelict is empty and in a bad state
of repair because it has not been used
Derelict or lived in for a long time.
estate

Slums A slum is an area of a city where living conditions are very bad and where the houses
Demolish
Inner-cities
Renovate

Other Type of building

Deatched building
semi-detached house
Terraced house
Mansion
Cottage
Manor house
Bungalow

a small house/ self-contained living

accommodation often occupying two floors of a
larger house and having its own outside
Maisonette entrance
Castle
Palace
Shopping centers/malls

Other part of building:

Roof
Ground floor
first floor
Basement (Cellar)
Attic
Staircase

Verbs:
Build
Construct
Plan
Design
Modernise

Others
Standardised
Prefabricated
Development
Mass-produced
Low-cost
Senetnce

The building is impeccably modernist: glass, aluminium and grey.

vacationers relaxing on the inn's spacious front porch

There is a patio area and a detached single garage with utility
area.
The hotel’s two-story limestone facade was modeled after the
oldest structure on the town square.

The body was found dumped in a derelict warehouse

Both her husbands lived in Shuafat refugee camp, a lawless slum

inside the Jerusalem city limits but just outside Israel’s security
barrier.

He lived in a ground floor maisonette