adjacencies
aesthetic
amalgamation
ambiguity
appropriate
arcade
architectural symmetry
archway
articulate
balcony
balustrade
banal
bespoke
blobitecture
brace
bracket
Brutalism
building envelope
cantilever
casement window
catalyst
celebrate
charette
Classical architecture
colonnade
column
concept
Contemporary
context
corbusian
courtyard
create a gesture
curate
curvilinear
deconstruction
device
diagrammatic
dimension
dissonance
domesticity
dormer window
duality
dynamic
eaves
eclectic
elevation
enfilade
ergonomy
explores the notion
exposed rafters
extrapolate
fabric
facade
fenestration
floor plan
formal
free-flowing floor plan
gable roof
generative
gentrification
gesture
grain
hardware
hierarchy
hipped roof
holistic
homogeneous
human scale
hybrid
iconic
inspiration
iteration
joinery
juxtaposition
Kitsch
language
legibility
map out
masonry
massing
materiality
metaphor
Miesian
modular
moment
monolithic
morphology
motifs
mullion
negative/positive space
negotiate
nodes
nuance
order
organic
parametric
parapet
parti
pastiche
penetrate
permaculture
phenomenology
pillar
pilotis
play with
poché
pods
portico
post-industrial
program
programmatic adjacencies
projection
proud
public realm
push/pull
rebate
Rectilinear
redundancy
regenerate
regionalism
robust
roofline
scale
section
sequence
served and service
setback
skin
solid/void
space
spatial composition
stucco
superimpose
sustainability
tectonics/architectonics
threshold
transparency/opacity
truncated
typology
uniformity
vernacular architecture
verticality
Sources Cited
Archisoup, “An Architects Guide to Architectural Terms,” https://www.archisoup.com/architectural-terms. Last accessed December 29, 2023.
Key Facts
At time of upload on December 30, 2023:
- 135 duplicative terms of those already existing in the Architectural Dictionary
- 7 original terms
- 142 total terms in source
- 4.9% original terms in source
- 124 sources in dictionary
- 18,219 unique terms in dictionary
- 36,126 total terms all sources in dictionary
- 50.4% unique terms in dictionary