Glossary
- abacus
- abbey
- adobe
- adyton
- aedicule
- agora
- aisle
- akropolis
- allee
- ambo
- amphitheater
- andron
- angiportus
- angle brace
- angle contraction
- annular vault
- anta
- apadana
- appartement
- apse
- aqueduct
- arcade
- arch
- architecture parlante
- architrave
- arris
- ashlar masonry
- atelier
- atrio
- atrium
- attic
- axis
- bailey
- baldacchino
- balloon framing
- balnea
- balustrade
- banco
- bank barn
- barrel vault
- barrio
- base
- basilica
- bastide
- bastion
- batter
- battered
- battlement
- bay
- bay window
- borough
- boss
- bouleuterion
- boulevard
- bourg
- brace frame
- bracket
- broch
- broken
- burh
- burh
- buttress
- caldarium
- campanile
- campiello
- cantilever
- capilla
- capital
- capstone
- cardo
- caryatid
- casemate
- casement window
- castra
- castrum
- catacomb
- causeway
- cavea
- cavetto cornice
- cella
- cenotaph
- central plan
- centuriation
- chaitya
- champleve
- chancel
- chancel screen
- chapel
- chapter house
- Chicago window
- chimney girt
- chinoiserie
- choir
- chord
- church
- churrigueresque
- circus
- citadel
- City Beautiful
- Classical architecture
- Classicism
- claustrum
- cloisonne
- cloister
- cluster housing
- collar beam
- colonnade
- column
- combwork
- common
- commune
- compression
- concrete
- conurbation
- coping
- corbelled vault
- corbelling
- Corinthian
- cornice
- cornieres
- cottage orne
- counter-scarp
- crenellation
- crescent
- cromlech
- cross vault
- crossing
- cross-in-square plan
- crowstepped gable
- cruck construction
- crypt
- cryptoporticus
- cubit
- cupola
- cushion capital
- cyclopean masonry
- daubing
- de Indios
- demesne
- dike
- dolmen
- dome
- domus
- donjon
- double-ender
- dougung
- dromos
- drum
- Dutch gable
- eave
- echinus
- eclecticism
- elevation
- enceinte
- entablature
- entasis
- episcenium
- epistyle
- espadaña
- esplanade
- estipite
- exedra
- fan vault
- fanlight
- faubourg
- fillet
- finial
- fireproof construction
- Flemish gable
- flute
- fluting
- folly
- forum
- fresco
- frieze
- frigidarium
- gable
- gallerie
- gallery
- gallery grave
- gambrel roof
- glacis
- grange
- Greek cross
- gymnasium
- hairpin megaron
- half-timbering
- hall church
- hamlet
- hammerbeam
- headright
- henge
- hipped roof
- hippodrome
- historiated capital
- historicism
- honeycomb vault
- horrea
- horreum
- hospice
- hotel
- hundred
- hypaethral
- hypocaust
- hypostyle
- impost
- insula
- intercolumnation
- Ionic
- iwan
- jamb
- jardin anglais
- jube
- kamoi
- keep
- keystone
- khan
- külliye
- lady chapel
- lantern
- Latin cross
- lierne
- linear grouping
- lintel
- loggia
- Lombard bands
- lotus capital
- lucam
- lunette
- machicolation
- madrasa
- mandala
- manor
- mansard roof
- marquetry
- martyrium
- masonry
- mass
- mastaba
- matte
- maul
- megalithic
- megaron
- menhir
- merlon
- metope
- mihrab
- minaret
- minbar
- mithraeum
- moat
- module
- molding
- monastery
- monolithic
- mortise and tenon
- mosaic
- mosque
- mouchette
- mullion
- muqarnas
- narthex
- nave
- necropolis
- niche
- nymphaeum
- obelisk
- oculus
- odeion
- odeum
- ogee
- ogive
- onion dome
- oppidum
- oratorium
- oratory
- orchestra
- order
- oriel
- outwork
- pagoda
- palaestra
- palatine chapel
- palisade
- palm capital
- panoptikon
- papyriform capital
- parapet
- pargeting
- parodos
- parti
- party wall
- passage
- pastas
- pastophory
- pavilion
- pedestal
- pendant vault
- pendentive
- per strigas
- periaktoi
- peribolos
- peripteral
- peristyle
- piano nobile
- piazza
- picturesque
- pier
- pilaster
- piling
- pillar
- pilotis
- pise
- place
- plat
- platea
- plateia
- plateresque
- plaza
- podium
- polis
- polychromy
- porch
- portal
- portales
- portcullis
- portico
- porticus
- posa
- post and beam
- postern
- program
- pronaos
- propylaia
- propylon
- proscenium
- prostyle
- prytaneion
- pseudoisotomic
- pseudoperipteral
- pylon
- quad
- quadrangle
- quarry-faced masonry
- quoin
- radiating chapel
- rafter
- ramma
- rampart
- ravelin
- refectory
- reinforced concrete
- relief
- reredos
- respond
- retable
- reveal
- revetment
- revival
- rhiad
- rib
- ribbed vault
- rond-point
- rood-screen
- roof-comb
- rose window
- rotunda
- roundel
- rusticated masonry
- rustication
- sacristy
- sally-ports
- sanctuary
- sash window
- scenae frons
- scholae
- section
- seigneurie
- semi-dome
- serdab
- shaft
- sharawagi
- sofa
- solea
- space-frame
- spandrel
- springing point
- spur wall
- square
- squinch
- stalactite vault
- stela
- stenopos
- stereobate
- stereotomy
- stoa
- string-course
- strut
- stucco
- stupa
- stylobate
- summerbeam
- suq
- swan’s-neck pediment
- taberna
- tableros
- tablinum
- tatami
- temenos
- temple front
- tenement
- tensile strength
- tension
- tepidarium
- terrace
- terra-cotta
- thermae
- thermal window
- tholos
- thrust
- tierceron
- tile hanging
- tongue and groove
- torsion
- tou-kung
- trabeation
- tracery
- transept
- transom
- travertine
- tribune
- triforium
- triglyph
- truss
- tufa
- umbrella dome
- vault
- vestibule
- viaduct
- vihara
- villa
- volume
- volute
- wattle and daub
- weatherboarding
- westwerk
- westwork
- wicket
- window
- ziggurat
- zoning
Source Citation
Kostof, Spiro. A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press. 1995.