Glossary
- adobe
- bas relief
- bay
- capital
- casement window
- chevron
- coffer
- cornice
- façade
- FAP
- FERA
- loggia
- mosaic
- parapet
- pediment
- pilaster
- PWA
- PWAP
- the “section”
- spandrel
- TVA
- WPA
Index
- 1:02:04
- 1916 zoning code
- adaptive reuse
- adaptive-reuse project
- adobe
- African
- AIA Gold Medal
- air conditioner
- ALCOA
- allegorical figures
- aluminum
- aluminum banding
- aluminum metalwork
- aluminum trim
- American Indian
- American Institute fo ARchitects
- American Scene
- American Society of Interior Designers
- American treasure
- amusement park
- amusement parks
- anchorage piers
- ancient cultures
- apartment buildings
- apartment house
- apartment houses
- aquarium
- aquariums
- aquatic relief
- arched portal
- arched porticoes
- architect of record
- architectural carving
- architectural colorist
- architectural establishment
- architectural evolution
- architectural history
- Architectural LEague of New York
- architectural style
- architecture
- Arquitectonica
- arrow-in-quiver lamps
- Art Deco
- Art Déco
- Art Deco architecture
- Art DEco bottling pants
- Art Deco bridge
- Art Deco bridges
- Art Deco carving
- Art Deco colors
- Art Deco fine arts
- Art Deco foilage
- Art Deco furniture
- Art Deco geometry
- Art Deco glassware
- Art Deco green
- Art Deco grilles
- Art Deco jewelry
- Art Deco light fixtures
- Art Deco lighting fixtures
- Art DEco Magic
- Art Deco marquee
- Art Deco ornament
- Art Deco painting
- Art Deco parkways
- Art Deco pastel palette
- Art Deco revival
- Art Deco sculpture
- Art Deco Societies
- Art Deco Society of Boston
- Art Deco Society of New York
- Art Deco subway station
- Art Deco sunburst pattern
- Art Deco theater
- Art Deco theaters
- Art Deco tours
- Art Deco tunnel
- Art Deco typography
- Art Deco vending machines
- Art Deco weather beacons
- Art Deco Weekend
- art décoratif
- Art Deco-styled films
- art glass
- Art Nouveau
- artisans
- artist
- artistic bridges
- artistic collaboration
- artistic elevator doors
- artistic letterboxes
- Asian
- ASID
- assembly line
- assembly lines
- Association of National Advertisers
- Assyrian
- Atlas
- atmospheric-style
- au courant
- auto-exhibition building
- avant-garde
- Aztec Airways
- Aztex
- Bakelite
- banding
- bas relief
- basin fountain
- bathhouse
- Bauhaus
- Bauhaus-style home
- bay
- beacon
- Beaux Arts Ball
- Beaux Arts Classicism
- Beaux Arts Modern
- Bedford limestone
- Belgian marble
- beltway
- black
- black brick
- black granite
- black granite name pylons
- black steel furniture
- black-and-silver glazed terra-cotta
- black-and-white architectural patterns
- black-glazed ceramic tiles
- blue neon
- blue-and-orange terra-cotta
- boldly colored vertical striping
- boomtown
- bottling plants
- Boulder Dam
- branch banks
- brass
- brass eagle light sconces
- brass elevator doors
- brass entrance doors
- brass-inlaid terrazzo floors
- brass-railed bar
- bridges
- brilliant colrs
- brilliantly colored tiles
- bronize chandeliers
- bronze friezes
- bronze grillwork
- bronze panel
- bronze work
- Buck Rogers Deco
- Buck Rogers finials
- builders
- building booms
- burgundy trim
- cabot blue
- Calssic Moderne
- canopy
- cantilevered sunscreen windows
- capital
- carillon
- Carrara Glass
- carved knights
- casement window
- casino
- cast aluminum
- cast stone
- cast-concrete sculpture
- cast-concrete sculptures
- cast-concrete structure
- ceiling murals
- ceiling notches
- ceiling soffit
- cemeteries
- cemetery
- center-city stores
- central distribution center
- central postal facilities
- central tower
- ceramic relief map
- Ceres
- CETA
- chain drugstore
- chain drugstores
- chains
- Chantily
- chevron
- Chicago Art Deco Society
- Chicago School
- Chinese designs
- Christ on the Cross
- chrome
- chrome-plated spun copper
- churches
- cinema
- citron-yellow
- city hall
- city halls
- city-county building
- Civic Center
- civic temple
- classic idiom
- Classical-style
- Classicism
- clean restrooms
- club
- club lounge
- clubs
- cobalt blue neon tracing
- coffer
- coffered ceilings
- coffered trapezoidal ceiling
- cogwheels
- collaborations of architects, sculptors, and muralists
- collector
- colors in terra-cotta
- company name
- company town
- Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
- concentric radiating circular-waveform shell
- concrete skyscraper
- concrete skyscraper with sloping sides
- conning tower
- construction industry
- Constructivist
- constructivist clock tower
- contemporary skyline
- continuous-strip brass light fixture
- copper
- coral
- cork floor
- corner casement windows
- corner windows
- cornice
- Corning Glass
- corporate identity
- corporate symbolism
- county review board
- court building
- courthouse
- courthouses
- covered walkways
- creamy-white terra-cotta
- Cubism
- Cubist fire curtain
- Cubistic decoration
- cultural events
- curved terra-cotta facade
- custom chandeliers
- custom hardware
- cutout panels
- cylindrical tower
- Dadaism
- dam
- dams
- dark polished stone
- de rigueur
- De Stijl
- Deco Decade
- Deco Dig
- Deco Echo
- Deco ziggurat
- Deco-Echo style
- Decophile
- decorative arts
- decorative motifs
- decorative panels
- decorative window spandrels
- dedication plaque
- Delayed Deco
- Delayed Deco monuments
- Delayed Deco sculptures
- demigod
- dendriform columns
- dental building
- dental buildings
- department store
- department stores
- department-store warehouse
- Depression
- design industry
- design professionals
- design prototype
- design styles
- designer
- detail
- dime store
- diners
- dining area
- dining room
- dirigible
- Disney Deco
- district
- document
- dragon
- dynamos
- earthquake-proof
- Egyptian
- Egyptian Revival
- Egyptian temple form
- Egypto-Deco
- Egypto-Deco sphinxes
- Egypto-Greco Stripped Classic columns
- Eighth Wonder of the World
- electric floodlight
- electric garage door
- electric-utility headquarters
- elevator lobbies
- elevator lobby
- emerald agate
- enameled porcelain
- engine parts
- engineering project
- English gray harewood
- entrance grille
- entrance lobby
- entrance piers
- entry-portico frieze
- esplanade
- esplanades
- etched glass
- etched-glass panels
- etched-glass trim
- ethnic heritage preservation
- European Modernist
- European nationalistic styles
- European workshops
- Euterpe
- Everglades grasslands
- exchange
- exchanges
- exhibitions
- exotic marbles
- exoticism
- experts
- exposition
- Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels
- Expressionism
- eyebrows
- façade
- facadectomy
- factories
- factory
- Fantasy
- FAP
- Far East
- Farm Security Administration
- fashion shows
- fast-food restaurants
- fauna
- faux-Greek temple
- Favrile glass insets
- federal eagles
- federal interstate
- Federal Section of Painting and Sculpture
- FERA
- fifty-year rule
- file
- filling station
- filling stations
- film industry building
- film industry buildings
- film-studio backlot
- finial
- finial signage
- fire curtain
- fire house
- fire houses
- fire-breathing dragons
- fire-proof
- First World Congress on Art Deco
- flamingoes
- flared-fluted decoration
- floor terrazzo patterns
- flora
- fluted columns
- fluted obelisk pylons
- flying fish
- forest green
- Foundation for Architecture
- fountain
- fountains
- fraternal organization
- fraternal organizations
- free-flowing waterfall
- French Art Deco
- French Zigzag
- French-inspired decorative elements
- French-style metal grillwork
- French-style metalwork
- frosted glass panels
- frosted-glass chandeliers
- frosted-glass lighting strips
- frozen fountain
- Frozen Fountain motif
- Futurism
- futuristic city
- futuristic houses
- futuristic light fixtures
- gantry cranes
- garbage disposal
- garden apartments
- gargoyles
- generators’ turbines
- geometric carving
- geometric concrete
- geometric concrete textile-block construction
- geometric craftsmanship
- geometric forms
- geometric interlocking circular pattern
- geometric massing
- Georgia marble
- German Expressionist
- German Moderne
- Germanic Deco
- Germanic patterns
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- gilt tops
- glass block
- glass brick
- glass chemistry
- glass mural
- glass murals
- glass tubing
- glass-block bands
- glass-block walls
- glass-brick enclosures
- glass-curtain wall
- glass-curtain-wall skyscraper
- glass-cylinder skylight
- glass-rod diffractors
- glazed tile
- glazes in terra-cotta
- gleaming metals
- gold
- gold mirrors
- gold-glazed terra-cotta trim
- gold-leaf ceiling
- gold-leafed ceiling
- Gothic tower
- Gothic-Art Deco
- Gothic-Byzantine-Deco
- Gothic-Deco tower
- graceful spires
- grain-tower
- grand staircase
- grande dames
- granite slabs
- graphic arts
- grass-roots movement
- gray
- Greco-Deco
- Greek Classicism
- Greek porte-cochere
- Greek revival
- green beltway
- Greyhound
- Greyhound Bus Terminal
- Greyhound Bus Terminals
- Greyhound station
- hand-forged iron
- hangars
- hard-hat tour
- heat-fusing
- helicline
- Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service
- heroic murals
- heroic purpose
- heroic sculpture
- highly polished black marble
- historic preservation
- historic restorations
- hollyhock
- homogeneity
- Hoover Dam
- horizontal banding
- horizontal fins
- horizontal wall banding
- horizontal window bands
- hospital
- hospitals
- hotel
- hotels
- House of Tomorrow
- icicles
- illuminated elevator
- indirect lighting
- industrial architect
- Industrial Deco
- industrial designer
- industrially designed products
- industries
- inlaid-wood decoration
- inner cities
- inner city
- inner quadrangle courtyard
- intake towers
- interior detailing
- Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
- International Orange
- interplay between light and dark
- intricate geometric lighting figures
- inventors
- iron grillwork
- isms
- ISTEA
- ivory
- jade
- jade agate
- Japanese ash
- Jazz Age
- jet d’eau
- Jukebox-Deco
- jute
- Kasonta stone
- Lalique
- lamp of wisdom
- lattice of aluminum
- laundry room
- laurel leaves
- Le Corbusier
- leaping-dolphin fountain
- lecturer
- lectures
- libraries
- library
- light fixtures
- light sconces
- lighthouse sign tower
- lighting pylons
- linoleum panels
- liquor-bottle shelving units
- literary arts
- lobby letterbox
- lobby murals
- lobby-ceiling mural
- local landmark
- local post office
- locks
- lodge
- lodges
- loggia
- L-shaped
- luxury liner
- lyres
- machine aesthetics
- Machine Age
- machined surfaces
- machinery
- main entrance
- main-entrance vestibule
- mansion
- marble walls
- marble ziggurat door frames
- market-identity techniques
- marketing research
- marquee
- mart
- marts
- massive globe
- massive lantern
- mathematical proportion
- mausoleum
- mausoleums
- Mayan
- Mayan-inspired geometric decorations
- Mayan-temple glyph designs
- medical building
- medical buildings
- Mediterranean Revival
- memorial
- memorial statue
- memorial statues
- memorials
- Mesopotamian
- metal craftsman
- metal doors
- metal railings
- metalwork
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Metyl-wood
- mezzanine arcade
- Miami Beach Art Deco lobby
- Miami Beach Historic District
- Miami Design Preservation League
- military building
- military buildings
- mining equipment
- mirrored walls
- mixed-use
- mock gas flame
- model home
- Modern Architecture
- modern art
- Modern Classic style
- modern high rise
- modern historic district
- Moderne
- Moderne massing
- Moderne movie palace
- Modernism
- Modernist
- molded glass
- Monel
- monument
- monumental bronze gates
- monumental proportions
- monuments
- mortuaries
- mortuary
- mosaic
- motel
- motels
- movie house
- movie houses
- movie palace
- movie theater
- movie theaters
- movie-set designers
- moving picture theater
- mullioned windows
- multi-building complex
- multilayered coffering
- municipal building
- mural cycles
- mural of inlaid wood
- museum
- museums
- musical arts
- nail key
- name pylons
- nameplate
- National Coalition of Art Deco Societies
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Guard
- National Guard Armories
- National Register of Historic Places
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Native American
- Native American geometrical patterns
- Native American warrior
- natural gas
- Nautical Art Deco
- nautical deck railing
- Nautical Moderne
- nautical mosaics
- neo-Art Deco
- Neo-Classical
- Neo-Deco
- Neo-Georgian
- neon
- neon ceiling-cove lights
- neo-Renaissance
- New Deal
- New York City Landmark
- New York Department of Education
- New York Landmark
- New York Times
- nickel-steel
- Normandie
- Nouveau
- nude woman
- observation deck
- ocean liner
- octagonal windows
- ocular window
- office buildings
- oil derrick
- old artifacts
- onyx
- opera house
- opera houses
- orchid agate
- order distribution center
- organizing conference
- Oriental walnut
- original interior
- original name
- oven-fired glazes
- overlook platforms
- Pacifica
- Painted Ladies
- palm fronds
- panel frescoes
- panoramic skyline
- parapet
- Paris Exposition motifs
- Paris Exposition style
- Paris Exposition-style pylons
- Paris-style Art Deco
- parties
- partnership between art and engineering
- pastel palette
- patterned terrazzo
- pavilions
- pediment
- peek-a-boo window
- performing arts centers
- perfume bottle stopper
- Pewabic Pottery
- phoenix
- phonograph needles
- pilaster
- pine cones
- pipe organ
- Plain Jane Deco
- planetarium
- planetariums
- plaster detailing
- plate glass
- plazas
- polished black marble floors
- polished granite walls
- polychrome paints
- polyplaynar geometric massing
- porthole patterns
- postcards
- Post-Modernism
- power turbines
- power-skyscraper
- Prairie-style
- pre-Columbian
- prefabricated cast concrete
- preservation-development plan
- pretty as green paint
- prime real estate
- princess blue
- print shop
- printing plant
- prismatic glass beacon
- prismatic patterns
- private club
- private dining rooms
- produce hub
- Prohibition
- Prometheus
- proto-Deco Assyrian decorations
- proto-Deco skyscraper
- pseudo-Gothic pinnacles
- public library
- publishing building
- publishing buildings
- Pueblo Deco
- pumping station
- purity
- PWA
- PWAP
- pyramid of power
- pyramidal top
- Pyrex glass tubes
- radiating sunbeams
- radio studio
- radio studios
- railings
- raison d’être
- rare wood
- recent past
- recessed illumination
- recessed vertical spandrels
- recessed vertical strips
- record
- recreation center
- recreation centers
- red
- red granite
- reflecting pool
- Regency architecture
- regional imagery
- regional motifs
- relief sculpture
- remote-control garage door
- renovation architect
- Resettlement Administration
- restaurant
- restaurants
- restoration
- restoration architect
- restored hotels
- retaining walls
- reverse ziggurat
- reverse ziggurat ceiling notches
- reverse-ziggurat
- revitalize
- rich wood trim
- road
- roads
- roadway
- roadways
- Roaring Twenties
- rock-quarrying companies
- Roman
- Roman ruins
- Romanesque
- Rookwood
- rotating exhibits
- rounded bay windows
- royal blue agate
- rubber companies
- rubber company
- rule of threes
- Rules of Three
- Rustic Deco
- Rustic-Deco
- Saint George
- San Sabastian-stone
- sandblasting
- satinwood
- scale
- scales of justice
- scholars
- school
- schools
- sculpted animals
- sculpted Corning glass
- sculpted metal surround
- sculpted steps
- sculpted-metal panels
- sculptor
- seafoam green
- seaplane bases
- Sears sign
- Sears Tower style
- semicircular rotunda
- Serpentine green
- sheaf-of-wheat design
- shiny metal canopies
- ship railings
- shoe machinery
- shopping center
- shopping centers
- showroom
- shrouded sphinxes
- siggurat
- Silk Association of America
- silver decorations
- silver leaf
- singing tower
- skating rink
- skylights
- Skyscraper
- skyscraper boom
- skyscraper headquarters
- skyscraper lobbies
- Skyscraper Moderne
- Skyscraper Style
- skyscraper university
- skywalk
- slum
- slums
- small-paned
- smokestacks
- smooth metal
- smooth metal trim
- snow drifts
- Social Realism
- social realist artwork
- spandrel
- spandrels
- Spanish Mission
- Spanish Mission Deco
- special glazes
- sprites
- staff engineer
- stainless steel
- stainless-steel eagles
- stainless-steel sculpture
- stairs
- stand-up writing desks
- stark steel frame
- state capitol
- state capitol building
- state capitols
- state fair
- state fairs
- steam
- steam engine
- steel-reinforced concrete
- stepped ziggurat-parapets
- stepped-back sculpture form
- stepped-back skyscraper
- stepped-glass atrium
- stepped-shape silhouettes
- stone-relief panels
- store building
- Streamline
- Streamline Moderne-style bars
- Streamline style
- streamlined apartment buildings
- streamlined bands
- streamlined buses
- streamlined fireplace
- streamlined marquee
- streamlined shopping centers
- streamlined toll boths
- street entrance
- Stripped Classic
- structural engineer
- structural glass
- structural rehabilitation
- stylized animals
- stylized buffaloes
- stylized flowers
- stylized hollyhock blossoms
- stylized nudes
- suburb
- Sulfate
- sun tan
- sunburst pattern
- sundial
- supervising architect
- Suprematism
- swimming pool
- switching stations
- sword of justice
- Sykscraper Style Art Deco
- symmetrical massing
- tall buildingts
- tall corridors
- tall office building
- telephone-company headquarters
- telephone-themed metalwork
- telescoping setbacks
- tenants’ house
- tenants’ houses
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- termite-proof
- terraced roof decks
- terra-cotta
- terra-cotta brick
- terra-cotta façade decoration
- terra-cotta factories
- terra-cotta friezes
- terra-cotta parapet
- terra-cotta sculptor
- terra-cotta spandrel
- terra-cotta spandrels
- Texas limestone
- textile-block construction
- textured cement
- the “section”
- theater pipe organ
- throughway
- tile decorations
- tinted plaster
- tire companies
- tire company
- tornado-proof
- Tosa-Grey Nelle marble
- tours
- trading post
- traditionalists
- train station
- train stations
- Treasury Department
- tropic green
- Tropical Art Deco
- Tropical Deco
- trylon and perisphere
- tubular steel
- tunnel
- tunnel-entrance portals
- tunnels
- turquoise
- TVA
- twentieth century
- twin-span suspension bridge
- two-story windows
- typography
- U.S. Federal Courthouse
- U.S. Post Office
- ultramodern materials
- unicorn
- unisphere lobe
- urban complex
- urban complexes
- urban greenbelt
- urban planning
- urban plaza
- urban towers
- urns
- utilities
- utility
- utility-company skyscraper
- V-8
- vaudeville theater
- vaulted-lobby ceiling tile
- verde-marble
- verde-marble floors
- vernacular architecture
- vertical strip signs
- vertical-ribbed fenestration
- Veterans Hospital
- veterans hospitals
- Victorian
- Viking ships
- vintage postcard
- virtreous enamel
- visual marketing
- vitrines
- Vitrolite
- Vitrolite murals
- Vitrolite Structural Glass
- Vitrolite Structural Glass panels
- Vitrolite Structural Glass sheets
- Vitrolite structural-glass panels
- volume
- walnut agate
- Washington state clay
- washtubs
- water intake towers
- weather beacons
- Werkbund
- white
- white brick
- white enamel panels
- white glazed
- white marble
- white-onyx
- Wild West
- window display space
- windowless end-walls
- wise old owl
- wood paneling
- world’s fair
- WPA
- yellow
- yellow glazed tile
- zeitgeist
- ziggurat elevator lobby
- ziggurat motifs
- ziggurats
- ziggurat-topped tower
- Zigzag style
- zoning code
- zoo
- zoos
Sources Cited
Capitman, Barbara and Michael D. Kinerk, Dennis W. Wilhelm. Rediscovering Art Deco U.S.A.: A Nationwide Tour of Architectural Delights. Santa Monica, CA: Hennessey + Ingalls. 2002.
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