Author’s Note
All the architecture in this book is completely imaginary, and no reference is intended to any actual building living or dead.
Contents
- Order to View
- Egypt
- Greek
- Roman
- Byzantine
- Very Early English
- Norman
- Early English
- Decorated
- Perpendicular
- Tudor
- Elizabethan
- Renaissance
- English Renaissance
- Baroque
- Queen Anne
- Georgian (Town)
- Georgian (Country)
- Gothick
- Regency
- Municipal Gothic
- Gothic Revival II
- Kensington Italianate
- Salubrious Dwellings for the Industrious Artisan
- Public-House Classic
- Scottish Baronial
- Pont Street Dutch
- Art Nouveau
- Edwardian Baroque
- Wimbledon Transitional
- Stockbrokers Tudor
- Bankers Georgian
- Pseudish
- By-pass Variegated
- Park Lane Residential
- L.C.C. Residential
- Modernistic
- Third Empire
- Marxist Non-Aryan
- Twentieth-Century Functional
Glossary
- abolishing ornament
- academic architects
- airports
- antiquity
- Antiquity
- applied decoration
- aqueducts
- arcade
- Architectural Association Georgian
- architectural forms
- architectural history
- architectural style
- architrave
- Art Nouveau
- artistic worth
- Arts and Crafts movement
- austerity
- bakelite
- balcony
- Bankers Georgian
- baptisteries
- Baroque
- Baroque candelsticks fitted with lampshades
- barrel vault
- base
- battlements
- beaten copper
- Beggar’s Opera Georgian
- black glass
- blue china
- bosses
- bottle-class
- bourgeois taste
- bow-window
- bow-windows
- brewers
- Brewers Georgian
- brick
- bright green tiles
- bright red rick
- British architecture
- brobdingnagian fruit
- broken pediment
- broken pediments
- buttress
- By-Pass Elizabethan
- By-pass Residential
- By-pass variegated
- Byzantine
- Byzantine architecture
- caissons
- candle-lit
- cantilever
- cantilivering
- capital
- caryatid
- castellations
- cast-iron
- castle
- central-heating
- centrally-heated matchboxes
- cheapness
- Chinese
- Christian art
- chromium plate
- chromium pomegranates
- cigar boxes
- circular windows
- classical details
- colored brickwork
- colored tiles
- column
- Composite
- console
- construction
- corbels
- Corinthian
- cornice
- cornices
- cornucopia
- cosiness
- cottage orné
- Country Georgian
- country houses
- country railway stations
- country-house style
- crescent
- crocket
- crowded urban area
- Crystal PAlace
- cubist movement
- curlicue
- curvilinear tracery
- daring use of color
- Decorated
- decorated fanlight
- decorated frieze
- decorative engraving
- decorative shutters
- decorative trimmings
- decorative urbs
- depressed arch
- dignity
- discs
- dome
- domestic architecture
- Doric
- drainage system
- drained marshes
- drains
- Early English
- earthenware pots
- Edwardian Baroque
- Edwardian rococo
- Egypt
- Egyptian
- Egyptian columns
- elaborate rustication
- elephantine drecoration
- Elizabethan
- Elizabethan revival
- emphasis on size
- Empire style
- encaustic tiles
- encaustic tiling
- engineer
- English architecture
- English country-house
- English pub
- English Renaissance
- entablature
- excessive ornament
- exotic styles
- extra story
- extreme simplicity
- factories
- factory
- factory chimneys
- fan light
- fancy brickwork
- fancy leading
- fancy tiling
- fan-vaulting
- Fascist
- fine arts
- fireplace
- first Empire style
- fitness for purpose
- flying buttress
- flying buttresses
- fortifications
- fountains
- freedom
- French Revolution
- frieze
- functional style
- fussy ornament
- gable
- garage
- Garden cities
- gargoyle
- gazebo
- gentry
- Georgian
- German architecture
- gigantic pillars
- gilt-edged
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival
- Gothic Revival II
- Gothic revivalist
- Gothicism
- Gothick
- granite-laden exterior
- Greek
- Greek architecture
- Greek Revival
- green glaze
- green shutters
- groining
- half-century
- half-timbering
- hearth
- heavy cornices
- high-pitched
- historic style
- hospitals
- hotels
- housing estates
- Indian
- interior decoration
- interior decorator
- interlaced arches
- intersecting barrel vaults
- Ionic
- iron-bound chest
- ironwork
- ironwork balcony
- Italian architecture
- Jubilee Renaissance
- keep
- Knole sofas
- L.C.C. Residential
- lancet
- lancet windows
- landscape garden
- lantern
- large block
- large block of luxury flats
- latticed windows
- lead
- leaded panes
- leaded window-panes
- lierne vault
- low cornice
- luxury flats
- machicolations
- machines
- Mansard roof
- mansionettes
- Marxist Non-Aryan
- mass-production
- masterpieces
- mechanical principles
- medieval
- medieval architecture
- megalithic colonnades
- mentlepiece
- merry-go-round
- Metro-Goldwyn Renaissance
- Metroland
- meurtriéres
- Middle Ages
- mine
- moat
- modern devices
- modern life
- Modern Movement
- Modernistic
- monotony
- monuments
- Municipal Gothic
- neo-Baroque style
- NEw Age
- New Testament
- new towns
- niches
- nobility
- Norman
- obelisc
- office blocks
- Office of Works Queen Anne
- offices
- ogive
- old horn lantern
- old oak beams
- Old Testament
- olde worlde
- old-fashioned pubs
- open spaces
- ornamental urns
- ornamentation
- oubilettes
- painted water-lilies
- palaces
- Palladian
- Palladian revival
- Palladian style
- Park Lane Residential
- pattern books
- pavement lights
- pebbledash
- pediment
- pendentives
- Perpendicular
- pickle-factory
- picturesque
- pilasters
- pile of bricks
- pillars
- plain wall
- planning and proportion
- plaster
- plate-glass window
- plumbing
- political rhetoric
- Pont Street Dutch
- Portland stone
- Portland stone facings
- prisons
- privy
- proletarian
- proletarian architect
- provincialism
- Pseudish
- pseudo-Venetian capitals
- public building
- public-house
- Public-House Classic
- purity of line
- pyramid
- quarries
- Queen Anne
- Queen Victoria
- railway stations
- railway termini
- red brick
- red-brick tenement buildings
- refinement
- Regency
- Renaissance
- restraint
- revivalists
- revivals
- ribbed vault
- ribbed vault on pointed arches
- ribs
- ridge-tiling
- roads
- Roman
- Roman tiles
- Romanesque
- rose window
- rural style
- rusticated
- rustication
- sacro egoismo
- saints
- sashed window
- school
- Scottish Baronial
- sculptures keystone
- Second Empire Renaissance
- segmental pediment
- sexpartite vault
- shabby grandeur
- shading
- sign-writer
- silhouette
- sinuous pattern
- skyline
- slate
- slum
- small windows
- solidity
- South Kensington Italian
- Soviet
- Spanish-colonial
- speculative builder
- spiral staircases
- spire
- square
- squinches
- statues
- steep stairs
- stippled
- Stockbroker Tudor
- Stockbrokers Tudor
- Stockholm trimmings
- structural devices
- stucco
- stucco palaces
- suburban development
- summer house
- sunflowers
- superabundance of shutters
- surface texture
- swags
- swags of fruit
- symmetry
- terra-cotta
- terra-cotta enrichments
- terra-cotta plaques
- thick walls
- Third Empire
- tiles
- timber
- timber construction
- Town Georgian
- town hall
- tradition
- trowel
- Tudor
- turrets
- Tuscan
- Twentieth-Century Functional
- twisted beams
- typography
- une architecture franche
- une machine à habiter
- unpaved
- upper-class style
- utilitarian buildings
- variety
- vaulting
- Venetian window
- Very Early English
- viaduct
- Victorian architects
- Victorian revivalism
- Victorian taste
- villages
- Vitruvius
- wallpaper
- way
- Way
- wealthy clients
- weather-boarding
- white painted wooden balconies
- white plaster
- whitewashed
- Wimbeldon Transitional
- working-class flats
- working-class residential districts
- wrought-iron grill
- yellow brick
- yule-logs
Source Citation
Lancaster, Osbert. Pillar to Post: English Architecture without Tears. London, United Kingdom: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1938, 1st edition.