arch
Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments
A form of construction, usually of masonry, in which a number of units span an opening by carrying the downward thrust laterally to the next unit and finally to the abutments or vertical supports. Unusually further described by its intrados outline, as round, elliptical, pointed, trefoil, etc. Photo from New York City, New York, 2018. (Saylor, 1952)
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- rounded horseshoe arch
- post-and-lintel architecture
- Details: The Architect's Art (1991)
- The American Glossary of Architectural Terms (1887)
- A Concise Glossary of Architectural Terms (1896)
- A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms (1928)
- The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture (2001)
- Gimli Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (2018)
- Classic Architectural Vocabulary (2023)
- Preservation Plan for St. Louis (1995)
- Downtown - Cranford, New Jersey
- Under Every Roof (1993)
- Glossary: Architectural Terms (2005)
- Tudor History Architecture Glossary (2005)
- WebRef Architecture (2005)
- Ontario Architecture (2005)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture (1977)
- Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture (2022)
- English Church Architecture (2018)
- Glossary of architecture (2018)
- Church Symbolism (1938)
- A Dictionary of Architecture (1966)
- Architectural Description Guide (1978)
- Archetypes in Architecture (1985)
- An Illustrated Glossary of Architectural and Constructional Terms (1998)
- The Annotated Arch (2001)
- Architecture: From Prehistory to Modernity (2002)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture (2002)
- How to Read a Church (2003)
- Forms in Architecture (2005)
- The Visual Dictionary of Architecture (2008)
- Marble Institute (2011)
- Buffalo Architecture and History (2018)
- Trust for Architectural Easements (2018)
- Glossary of architecture (2017)
- Visual Arts Encyclopedia (2017)
- Architectural Details (2017)
- Identification and Glossary of Terms (2018)
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- Art History Glossary (2022)
- The Great Courses: Travelling the Roman Empire (2022)
- Architecture Dictionary (2023)
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- Italian Art and Architecture Glossary (2023)
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- National Endowment for the Humanities (2023)
- Stromberg Architectural Products (2023)
- Study of the Orders (1906)
- Composite Capital
- half arch
- laminated rib
- From Abacus to Zeus (1968)
- The Grammar of Architecture (2002)
- The Library of Congress: An Architectural Alphabet (2000)
- Architecture in America: A Battle of Styles (1961)
- Glossary of Savannah Architecture
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- brick vaulting
- hyperbolic parabolic arch
- Ancient Roman
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- Architectural styles: a visual guide (2020)
- Illustrated Glossary of Architecture, 850-1830 (1966)
- Metropolitan United Methodist Church - Detroit, Michigan
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- The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
- Visit to Old Westbury Gardens - Old Westbury, New York
- Downtown - Keyport, New Jersey
- Downtown - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Downtown - Detroit, Michigan
- A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1995)
- Downtown - Somerville, New Jersey
- Disney World - Orlando, Florida
- Downtown - Caldwell, New Jersey
- Leaning Tower - Pisa, Italy
- St. James Cathedral - Seattle, Washington
- New Jersey State House - Trenton, New Jersey
- Downtown - Hanover, Pennsylvania
- A Tryal of Glasse (1972)
- Rice’s Language of Buildings (2009)
- Glossary of Colonial Williamsburg
- Far Eastern University (2025)
- Architectural Symbols (2025)
- The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond (2014)
- Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion (2022)
- Aesthetics of the Main Types of Structure (2016)
- Three American Architects (1991)
- The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019)
- AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC (1994)
- face joint
- vaulted ceiling
- solid arch
- multifoil arch
- skew vault
- end-construction tile
- springing-points
- soffite
- right forward
- Anglo-Romanesque architecture
- structural terra-cotta
- flat arch vertical joint
- neighborhood movie theaters
- arcaded arch
- terra-cotta arch
- arcuated lintel
- jak arch
- tierce point arch
- camerate
- cameration
- striking of arch
- arcatrive
- lancet headed
- concrete bridges
- tie chain
- returned archivolt
- biulf
- hinged arch
- lenticular arch
- geostatic arch
- supercanopy
- spandrel filled arch
- open spandrel arch
- monier arch
- haunched arch
- groined arch
- simielliptical arch
- elastic arch
- Introduction To Architecture: Architectural Dictionary of Terms, Movements and Architects (2025)
- Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism (1986)
- The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (2005)
- Architecture Without Architects (1965)
- Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details (1877)
- Dictionary of Islamic Architecture (1996)
- Buildings of Michigan (1993)
- Pompeii Archaeological Park - Pompeii, Italy
- Terme Di Diocleziano - Rome, Italy
- Basilica del Sacra Cuore - Rome, Italy
- Colosseum - Rome, Italy
- St. Louis Cathedral Basilica - St. Louis, Missouri
- Architecture / Skin / Window
- voussoir
- tympanum
- Order
- vault
- soffit
- lunette
- shaft
- archivolt
- ogee
- groin
- squinch
- segmental arch
- abutment
- foil
- intrados
- haunch
- Crown
- Venetian window
- horseshoe arch
- blind arch
- extrados
- springer
- pointed arch
- relieving arch
- rood
- span
- flat arch
- accolade
- label stop
- elliptical arch
- jack arch
- Syrian arch
- triumphal arch
- thrust
- centering
- Romanesque Revival
- rise
- impost block
- discharging arch
- dosseret
- stilted arch
- Gothic arch
- flank
- Palladian motif
- coussinet
- skewback
- spring
- trefoil arch
- corbel arch
- rampant arch
- Moorish arch
- chord
- Florentine arch
- inverted arch
- semicircular arch
- shouldered arch
- bell arch
- arc
- fornix
- compass roof
- fly
- memorial arch
- agraffe
- circular arch
- rowlock arch
- parabolic arch
- three-centered arch
- anse de panier
- camber piece
- arc de triomphe
- arcus ecclesiae
- Lancet style
- arc doubleau
- cloistered arch
- arch corner bead
- arch brick
- arch buttress
- back filling
- p'ai lou
- tierce point
- rood arch
- semielliptical arch
- keel arch
- ring stone
- ogival
- straining arch
- diaphram arch
- cusped arch
- diminished arch
- false arch
- raking arch
- splayed arch
- stepped arch
- arc dobleau
- Venetian
- Architecture Dictionary
- Architecture / Origin / Greek
- Architecture / Origin / Europe / Spanish
- Architecture / Building / Church
- Architecture / Skin / Vault
- Architecture / Skin / Truss
- Architecture / Design / Geometry
- Architecture / Empire / England & Britain
- Architecture / Empire / Assyria
- Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans (1923)
- igluegeak
- imbowment
- back arch
- barrel arch
- catenary arch
- ch'uan
- arc-doubleau
- Mayan arch
- ping ch'uan
- multi-foil arch
- contrasted arch
- arriere-voussure
- ribbed arch
- rising arch
- sconcheon arch
- segmental relieving arch
- t'ung ch'uan
- arctuated lintel
- chen huan
- Caernarvon arch
- camber slip
- discontinuous impost
- impost return
- headwork
- key console
- featheredge brick
- radiating brick
- radius brick
- creeper
- filling
- backfilling
- voussoir brick
- voussoirs
- extrados archivolt molding
- plantband
- zig-zag
- ogee curve
- soffit panels
- soffits
- pear drop
- peardrop
- Scotch crown
- semi-arch
- segmental window
- epistylar arcuation
- Etruscan
- bar-tracery
- countervault
- diaphragm arch
- foils
- jack rib
- pai-lou
- skew arch
- spere-truss
- Split
- American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940 (1988)
- Identifying American Architecture (1977)
- Romanesque commercial building
- Common Architectural Styles and their Distinguishing Features (2005)
- What Style is it? (1983)
- American Houses (2004)
- American House Styles (2002)
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture (1997)
- Principles of Architecture (1990)
- Adirondack Heritage (2007)
- American Architecture Since 1780 (1996)
- Centre County Architecture (2009)
- Architectural Terms (2007)
- A Concise History of American Architecture (1980)
- Historic Preservation (2000)
- Dictionary of Architecture (1952)
- Architecture & Ornament (1990)
- American Shelter (1981)
- Sturgis' Dictionary (1901)
- ABC's of Architecture (1998)
- ...Isms, Understanding Architectural Styles (2006)
- Old House Dictionary (1994)
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Marx House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Rivers Edge Gallery
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Orr House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Michigan Alkali Company Administration Building
- Albion Interactive History / East Cass Street Bridge
- Albion Interactive History / 300 South Clinton Street
- Albion Interactive History / 412 South Clinton Street
- Albion Interactive History / 314 South Superior Street
- Albion Interactive History / Events / 1915
- Albion Interactive History / Library / “Historic Preservation: Selected Sites of Downtown Albion (1991)
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Superior Street Commercial Historic District (1996)
- Downtown - Maysville, Kentucky
- Downtown - East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
- Architecture / Style - old
- High Victorian Gothic
- Swiss Colonial
- Architecture / Style / Beaux Arts
- Architecture Dictionary
- compound pointed arched portal
- depressed shouldered arch
- extrados molding
- false ellipse
- intrados-soffit
- round arch sash
- segmental-pointed arch
- springing point
- square dome
- squash tracery
- trefoil arch with tracery
- trefoil tracery
- two-cusp arch
- Preservation Science (2019)
- Church - Pisa Cathedral, Pisa, Italy
- Downtown - Cooperstown, New York
- arched
- Architecture / Style / Italian Renaissance
- Downtown - Clinton, New Jersey
- Architecture / Building / Capitalization
- Architectural Styles (1979)
- drip stone
- arch culvert
- arch barrel
- mantel-tree
- rood-arch
- Abingdon Historic District - Abingdon, Virginia
- Tudor Arch
- arcs-doubleaux
- calves'-tongue molding
- Architecture / Style / Gothic Revival
- impost
- A Young Person's Guide to New Orleans Houses (1992)
- Architecture / Skin / Masonry
- Understanding Architecture (1994)
- lancet
- Architecture / Building / Hyphen
- Santa Maria del Fiore - Florence, Italy
- pillar
- Station Square - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2014)
- Lyric Theater - Stuart, Florida (2018)
- Downtown - Akron, Ohio