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Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

A ..... B ..... C ..... D ..... E ..... F ..... G ..... H ..... I ..... J ..... K ..... L ..... M ..... N ..... O ..... P ..... Q ..... R ..... S ..... T ..... U ..... V ..... W ..... X ..... Y ..... Z ..... FURNITURE Glossary ............Stained Glass Dictionary ............ Iconography in Art and Architecture                 Lighting Glossary


A - B

C - F

G - M

N - R

S- Z

A
Abacus

Acanthus

Acroterion

Adam style


Adaptive reuse

Aesthetic Movement

Aisle

Alabaster

Allegory

Altar

Altarpiece

Ambulatory

America, England and France: Architecture and Furniture styles

American bond

American Foursquare

American Renaissance/Beaux Arts style

Anchor

Ancone


Andiron

Andrle, Otto F.

Angel

Antefix

Anthemion


Applied composition

Apse


Arabesque

Arbor

Arcade

Arcade window

Arch

Arch brace

Architects in Buffalo

Architectural styles

Architrave

Archivolt

Arrow loop

Art Deco


Art glass

Art Moderne style

Art Nouveau style

Arts and Crafts style

Ashlar

Astragal

Atlas

Atlantes

Atrium

B
Balconet

Balcony

Baldachino

Balloon framing

Baluster


Balustrade

Banded column

Banded pilaster

Banderol

Banding


Band window

Baptismal font

Bargeboard


Baroque/Baroque Revival style

Barrel ceiling

Barrel roof

Barrel Vault


Base


Basilica

Basket arch

Basket-handle arch


Basket weave

Bas-relief

Batten


Batter

Battlement

Bay

Bay leaf

Bay window


Bead molding

Bead-and-reel

Beak-head molding

Beaux Arts style

Beehive oven

Belfry

Bellflower

Bell gable

Bellied balconet

Bell roof

Bell tower

Belvedere

Beltcourse

Bema

Bethune
, Louise Blanchard

Beveled glass

Billet

Blind arcade

Blind arch

Block modillion

Board and batten

Bolection moulding

Bond (bricks)

Boss

Bouquet

Bowstring bridge

Bow window

Box beam

Bracket

Bricks

Bridges

Broken pediment

Brutalism

Bucranium / Bucrane

Buddhism

Buffalo (City of) Seal

Building Materials

Bullnose brick

Bull's eye

Bungalow style

Burl

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

Burnham, D. H.


Buttress

Byzantine /Byzantine Revival style


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C
Cable molding

Caduceus

Caisson

Calligraphy

Came

Campanile/Bell tower

Canted

Cantilever

Capital


Captain's walk

Carrara glass panels

Cartouche

Cary, George

Caryatid

Casement window

Cast iron

Cast stone

Castellations

Catalog houses

Cavetto

Cavity-wall


Cell

Celtic art

Cemetery symbols

Cenotaph

Ceramic

Chair rail

Chamfer

Chancel

Chapel

Chateauesque style

Cherry

Chevron

Chicago School style

Chicago window

Chimera

Chimney brace

Chimney breast

Chimney cap

Chimney hood

Chimneypiece

Chimney pot

Chinese Architecture Dictionary

Choir

Churches in Buffalo

Churches - vocabulary

Cinquefoil

City Beautiful Movement

City of Buffalo Seal

Classical Revival / Neoclassicism

Clearstory

Clerestory


Clinker

Clipped gable

Cloister

Clustered column

Coal scuttle

Cobblestone

Coffering


Coin

Collar beam

Collar tie


Collegiate Gothic Style

Colonette

Colonnade


Colonial/Colonial Revival style

Colossal order

Column

Commercial style

Commercial styles

Common bond

Communion table

Composite order

Compound arch

Concrete

Concrete blocks

Concrete block houses

Conductor head

Conical roof

Console

Coquillage

Corbel


Corbel table

Corbie gable

Corinthian order

Corner block

Cornerstone

Cornice

Cornucopia

Course

Coursed rubble

Court of Honor/Cour d'Honneur

Cove

Craftsman style

Crane

Crenellation

Creo-dipt shingles

Crest

Crocket

Croset

Cross

Crossing

Crown molding

Crow-stepped gable

Cruciform

C scroll

Cupola

Curtain wall

Cushion capital

Cusps

Cyclopean masonry


Cyma

D
Dado

Daub

da Vinci, Leonardo

Daylight Factory style

Dentil


Diaper pattern

Dog grate


Dog-tooth molding

Dolphin

Dome

Doric Order


Dormer

Double cone molding

Dougong

Downing, Andrew Jackson

Dragon

Drawing room

Dressed

Dripstone

Drop


Drop finial

Droze, Augustina, artist

Drum

Dutch Colonial Revival

Dutch gable



E
Ear

Eastlake style


Eaves

Echinus

Eclecticism/Eclectic

Ecole Des Beaux Arts

Egg-and-dart


Egyptian Architecture Dictionary

Egyptian cornice

Egyptian / Egyptian Revival style

Elbow

Elliptical arch

Embattled sandwich molding

Encrustation

Engaged


England, France, and America: Architecture and Furniture styles

Entablature

Entasis

Entry/Entryway

Esenwein, August

Expressionist style / Neo-Expressionism

Eyebrow window


F
Façade

False front

Fanlight


Fasces

Fascia/Fascia board

Faux

Federal style

Fender

Festoon

Finial

Fireback

Firedog

Fireplace terms


Fireproof houses

Fire screen


Flame tracery

Flared

Flemish bond


Flemish gable

Flemish scroll

Fleur-de-lis


Fleuron

Fluting

Flying buttress


Foil

Foliate

Fountain

Foursquare

Foyer VS Entry VS Vestibule

France, England and America: Architecture and Furniture styles

French doors


French Provincial

French Renaissance Revival style

Fresco

Fret

Frieze

Frohe

Frontispiece

FURNITURE Glossary


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G
Gable

Gable window


Gadroon

Gallery

Gambrel roof

Gargoyle

Gardens, Classical Chinese

Garland

Gauged arch

Georgian/Georgian Revival style

GFRC

Gibbs surround


Gilded

Gingerbread

Glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC)

Glass panels

Glass, pigmented structural

Glaze (pottery)

Glazed bricks

Glazing (glass)

Gold leaf

Gorge cornice


Gothic / Gothic Revival style

Gougework

Grain elevators

Graining

Granite

Grate

Greek cross

Greek-cross plan

Greek key


Greek / Greek Revival style


Greek Temple

Green, Edward B.


Greenman

Green roof

Griffin

Grisaille painting

Grisaille stained glass

Groin vault/arch


Grotesque

Guilloche

Guastavino tiles


Gutta

H
Half-timber


Hammer beam


Harvard bricks

Header

Hearth

Hepplewhite, George

Herm

Herringbone

Hexagonal roof


hexastyle

Hieroglyphics

Hipped gable


Hipped roof


Historic districts


Honeysuckle

Hoodmold

Horseshoe arch

Houses of Worship

Hypostyle

I
Icon

Iconography in Art and Architecture

Iconostasis

Imbrication

In antis

Incised

Incrustation

Indiana limestone


Industrial style

Inglenook

International style


Ionic order


Islamic style

Italianate style


J

Jack arch

Jacobean / Jacobean Revival


Jamb

Japanese Architecture Dictionary

Jeffersonian Classicism

Jerkinhead

Johnson, James

Jetty

Jones, Inigo


K
Keep/donjon


Keyhole arch

Kent, Edward

Key pattern


Keystone

King post


Kit houses

Kittinger furniture

Knee brace

Kowsky, Francis R.

L
Label mold(ing)


Label stop


LaFarge, John


Lalli, Dr. V. Roger


Lancet window

Landmarks

Lantern

Lath

Lattice


Laurel leaves


Leaded glass

Leaf-and-dart

L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts

Le Corbusier

Light

Lighting Dictionary

Lincrusta

Linenfold

Lintel


Lion

Live edge

Lock

Lockport dolomite


Loggia

Loophole

Lotus, Egyptian


Lotus, Asian

Lozenge


Lucarne

Lug

Lunette (window)


Lyman, Duane

M

machicolation


Mahogany

Mannerism

Mansard roof

Mantel

Mantelpiece

Marble

Margent

Mason/Masonic symbols

Masonry (terms)

Mausoleum

Mazur, Joseph


McIntire, Samuel

McKim, Mead and White

Meander

Medallion

Medina sandstone

Mediterranean Revival Style

Memorial arch

Metope

Mid Century Modern style

Miller, David

Minaret

Modern style

Moderne style

Modillion

Molding

Moorish/Moorish Revival style

Morris, William


Mortar

Mortise-and-tenon

Mosaic

Mosque

Mouchette

Moulding
 
Mudéjar

Mullion

Muntin

Multifoil

Mural Materials, Outdoor

Murals

Muslim style

Mutule

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N
Nail-head molding

Narthex

National Register - Historic Districts

National Register - Landmarks

Nave


Neoclassical style

Newel

Nicking

Nogging

Norman

Notch carving

Nunda blue sandstone

O
Oak

Obelisk

Octagon style


Octastyle

Oculus

Oeil-de-boeuf window

Ogee

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Onion dome

Onondaga limestone

Opalescent glass

Order

Oriel window

Ormolu

Outdoor Mural Materials

Oval

Overdoor

Overmantel

Ovolo molding

Oxeye (window)


P

Pagoda

Palladian door

Palladian window


Palladio, Andrea

Palmette

Pane

Papyrus

Parapet


Parquet

Patera


Patina

Pavilion


Pearl molding

Pebble dash

Pediment

Pendant

Pendant finial

Pendentive

Pergola

Period Houses / Period Revival style


Peristyle

Piano nobile

Pilaster

Pinnacle

Plaster

Plinth

Pocket doors

Pointed arch

Polychromy

Polytab

Porch

Portal

Porte-cochere

Portland cement

Porter, Cyrus K.

Portico


Post-and-lintel system

Postmodern style

Prairie style

Predella

Pre-Raphaelites

Presbyterianism and its Architecture

Preservation districts

Pulpit

Pulvinus

Purlin

Putto

Pylon

Pyramidal roof

Q
Quarry-faced

Quartersawn oak

Quatrefoil

Queen Anne style

Queen Anne window

Queen post

Quoin

R

Rafter

Rain garden

Raking

Raking cornice


Ranch

Reconstruction

Reed(ing)

Rehabilitation

Reinforced concrete

Reinforced plaster

Renaissance / Renaissance Revival style


Reredos

Restoration

Retable

Rib


Rib cage shower

Ribbed vault

Ribbon

Ribbon window

Richardson, H. H.

Richardsonian Romanesque

Richardsonian Romanesque: Syrian arch

Ridge

Rinceau


Ripple glass

Rococo style

Rollwork

Roman brick

Roman Classicism style

Roman Doric

Roman lattice

Roman/ Romanesque/ Romanesque Revival style

Rood

Roofs, Classical Chinese

Roof framing

Roof styles

Rope molding

Rose window


Rosette

Rotunda

Roundel

Round pediment

Rowlock

Roycroft

Rubbed bricks

Rumsey, Charles Cary

Running dog

Running mold

Running ornament

Rusticated



S
Saint Gaudens, Augustus

Saltier / Saltire

Sandblasting

Sanctuary

Sarcophagus

Sawtooth

Scagliola

Scallop

Sconce

Scroll

Scroll buttress

Scroll saw

Scupper

Seal

Sears Catalog Homes

Second Empire style

Segmental arch

Segmental pediment


Serliana

Serpentine

Sexfoil

Sgraffito

Shaft

Shaw, Richard Norman

Shed roof

Sheet metal

Shell

Sheraton, Thomas

Shingle

Shingle style

Shoulder

Shreadhead

Shutters

Side aisle

Side light

Silk-screening

Sill

Silsbee. Joseph Lyman

Skyscrapers

Slate

Slawinski, Jozef

Sleeping porch

Slip

Slip form method

Snow guard

Soffit

Spandrel

Spandrel panel

Spanish Eclectic style

Sphinx

Spiderweb muntins

Spiral

Spire

Splayed lintel

Squinch

S scroll

Stained glass

Staircase

Stair-end

Stalactite

Steeple

Stele

Stencil

Stepped gable

Stickley, Gustav

Stick style

Stigmata

Stone

Strapwork

Stretcher

Strigil

Stringcourse


Structural glass

Stucco

Subway tile

Sullivan, Louis

Sunburst design

Surround

Swag

Swan's neck pediment

Swiatek Studios

Syrian arch

T
Tabernacle

Telamon

Temple front

Tent roof

Term / Terminus


Terra cotta

Terrazzo

Tetrastyle

Thermal window

Threshold

Through-the-cornice dormer

Tie beam

Tie rod

Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Tile-ends

Torsade

Torus

Tower

Tower of the Winds order

Trabeated system

Tracery


Transept

Transom

Travertine

Tread-end

Trefoil

Triforium

Triglyph


Triptych

Triumphal arch

Truss

Tudor arch

Tudor / Tudor Revival style

Turning

Turret


Tuscan style

Twentieth Century Commercial style

Twisted column

Twisted (twining) stem molding

Two-part Block style

Tympanum

U

Urn

V
Vault

Venetian arch

Venetian window

Verandah

Vergeboard

Vermiculated

Vernacular style

Vestibule VS Foyer VS Entry

Victorian rooms

Victorian styles

Villa style

Vitreous china

Vitrolite

Vitruvian scroll

Vitruvian wave


Volute

Voussoir

W
Wainscoting

Waite, Richard A.

Waney edge

Waterleaf

Water table

Wattle

Wave scroll

Wavy edge

Wheel window

White, Stanford

Wicks, William Sydney

Widow's walk

Willet Studios

Windows

Window crown


Window head

Woods

Wreath

Wren, Christopher

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Wrought iron

X

Y

Z
Zigzag

Zinc





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