Glossary
agora
aisle
ambulatory
apse
aqueduct
arcade
arch
architrave
arcuated
Art Deco
Art Nouveau
ashlar
atrium
baluster
balustrade
band
baptistry
basilica
batter
battlement
Bauhaus
bay
Beaux Arts
blind
bracket
Brutalism
buttress
Byzantine
campanile
cantilever
capital
caryatid
castellated
cella
chevet
choir
Classical
clerestory
coffering
colonettes
colonnade
Colossal order
column
compressive strength
corbel
Corinthian order
cornice
crenellation
crossing
curtain wall
deconstructivism
Doric order
dormer
drum
eave
elevation
entablature
entasis
Expressionism
fan vault
finial
Flamboyant style
fluted
flying buttress
folly
forum
frieze
gable
gallery
gingerbread
Gothic
groin vault
half-timbering
hall church
Hellenistic
High-tech
horseshoe arch
International Style
Ionic order
keystone
lancet
lantern
loggia
lozenge
mannerism
mansard
masonry
mastaba
minaret
modernism
molding
mosque
mullion
nave
Neoclassicism
obelisk
order
oriel
Palladian window
parapet
pavilion
pediment
pendentive
pergola
peristyle
Perpendicular Style
pier
pilaster
pilotis
pinnacle
plan
plasticity
plinth
podium
polychromy
porte cochere
portico
post-and-lintel
Post-Modern
pylon
pyramid
quoin
reinforced concrete
rib
Rococo
Romanesque
rose window
rotunda
rustication
section
setback
shaft
skeleton frame
spandrel
stoa
string course
swag
tectonics
tensile strength
terra-cotta
thrust
trabeated
tracery
transept
transverse arch
trefoil
triforium
truss
turret
vault
veranda
vernacular
volute
ziggurat
Sources Cited
Strickland, Carol.AThe Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McNeel Publishing, 2001.