Architecture Glossary

Isaac Kremer/ February 27, 2017/ Writing/ 0 comments

The Architecture Glossary contains some of the most popular and commonly used architectural terms, styles, and building types with definitions, synonyms, and illustrations where available.

This project utilizes the CM Tooltip Glossary Pro by CreativeMindsSolutions. This plugin for WordPress parses posts for defined glossary terms and adds links to the static glossary page containing the definition and a tooltip with the definition. Benefits this provides follow:

• Whenever a term from the glossary appears on any page of our WordPress site, a broken underline beneath it indicates that a tooltip is available with the definition and sometimes the illustration as they are available.
• For technically complex architectural descriptions, the tooltip provides definitions and illustrations in the context where the description occurs.
• For terms without a broken underline link, it indicates they need to be researched and added to the Glossary.
• Synonyms are accounted for and tracked through the CreativeMindsSolutions. Whenever synonymous terms appear they are also linked with the tooltip.
• Finally, associations are made between terms and other pages they occur can be made – whether it is a definition of another term, a page on our blog, etc.

Revision History

Date	Terms	Terms Web	% Terms Web	Photos	% Photos Web	Notes on Update
2023-11-08	35,098	19,289	54.96%	2,694	13.97%	spiral staircase, tracery, Buddha
2023-10-29	35,098	19,250	54.85%	2,503	13.00%	light arrangement
2023-10-22	35,076	19,230	54.82%	2,446	12.71%
2023-10-10	35,072	19,225	54.82%	2,295	11.94%
2023-10-09	35,072	19,225	54.82%	2,197	11.43%
2023-09-30	35,072	19,206	54.25%	2,187	11.38%
2023-09-23	35,073	19,196	54.73%	2,151	11.21%
2023-09-18	34,723	19,197	55.29%	2,147	11.18%
2023-09-09	34,829	19,197	55.11%	2,317	12.07%	Ran sync with website
2023-09-07	34,439	18,806	54.61%	2,128	11.32%
2023-09-04	34,439	18,795	54.57%	2,094	11.14%
2023-03-04	34,430	18,600	54.02%	1,969	10.59%
2022-10-30	34,413	18,592	54.02%	1,947	10.47%
2022-08-08	34,066	18,524	54.37%	1,667	8.99%
2021-12-19	34,064	17,760	52.14%	1,664	9.37%
2020-11-14	27,212	17,590	64.64%	1,221	6.94%
2020-01-01	25,994	17,763	68.34%	762	4.29%
2019-08-23	25,994	17,577	67.62%	747	4.25%
2018-12-31	19,950	15,454	77.36%	0	0
2018-09-09	20,032	15,390	76.83%	0	0
2018-08-01	19,396	5,663	29.20%	0	0
2018-01-01	19,414	5,645	29.08%	0	0
2017-12-23	19,378	5,335	27.53%	0	0
2017-10-01	13,897	5,335	38.39%	0	0
2017-07-28	13,747	1,770	12.87%	0	0
2017-02-01	12,235	725	5.93%	0	0	Initial release from 20 sources.
2013-06-16				586	0	Glossary on Place Promo website.
2007-08-16	11,734	0	0	0	0
2006-05-18	11,999	0	0	0	0
2004-07-08	1,114	0	0	0	0

• The glossary was expanded to 17,763 terms in January 2020.

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