Contents
Illustration credits
Foreword
Foreword to the first edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Architecture and building
- Architectural history
- Space and function
- Drawings and models
- Materials and construction
- The exterior
- Styles and periods
- Site and place
Sources
Glossary
Notes
Index
Glossary
- abutment
- aedicule
- aesthetic
- aesthetics
- aggregate
- agora
- Alhambra
- ambulatory
- antique
- apse
- arch
- engrailed arch
- flat arch
- four-centered arch
- ogee arch
- segmental arch
- architectonic
- architrave
- art deco
- art nouveau
- arts and crafts
- arts and crafts movement
- ashlar
- asphalt
- atrium
- attic storey
- back-to-back house
- balistraria
- balustrade
- banded order
- bargeboards
- baroque
- basilica
- batter
- battlement
- Bauhaus
- bay
- bearing element
- bed
- bracing
- brise-soleil
- bush hammering
- buttress
- Byzantine
- cantilever
- capital
- caryatids
- castellated
- catenary
- chancel
- chattri
- cladding
- clamp
- classical
- classicism
- clerestory
- cob
- colonette
- column
- engaged column
- composite column
- concrete
- prestressed concrete
- reinforced concrete
- coping
- corbel
- Corinthian column
- cornice
- curtain wall
- deconstruction
- dome
- domestic revival
- Doric column
- dormer
- drip mould
- eaves
- École des Beaux-Arts
- edge cities
- Edwardian
- engaged column
- entablature
- entasis
- expressionism
- Expressionist
- eye-catcher
- façade
- fissile
- flèche
- floriated
- flushwork
- footprint
- formwork
- frame building
- frame structure
- functionalism
- functionalist
- futurism
- futurist
- gabion
- gable
- gablet
- geodesic dome
- geomancy
- Georgian
- giant order
- gothic revival
- gothic style
- decorated gothic style
- early English gothic style
- perpendicular gothic style
- grouting
- gurdwara
- half column
- hammerbeam truss
- herringbone brickwork
- high Victorian gothic
- hipped roof
- impost
- inglenook
- Ionic column
- Jacobean
- jali
- jetty
- jettie
- joists
- kingpost
- lancet window
- lath
- load-bearing walls
- machine aesthetic
- mandala
- mannerism
- mannerist
- mansard
- Marxist
- masonry
- mass concrete
- Metabolists
- mews
- minaret
- Ming dynasty
- modernism
- modernist
- monolith
- monumental architecture
- mortar
- mortice and tenon
- moulding
- mullion
- muqarnas
- national romanticism
- nave
- neo-classicism
- neo-Georgian
- Norman
- obelisk
- open plan
- order
- composite order
- Corinthian order
- Doric order
- Ionic order
- Tuscan order
- Palladianism
- pantheon
- pantile
- parapet
- peripteral colonnade
- piano mobile
- picturesque
- piers
- pilaster
- pile
- pilotis
- plan
- plane
- plinth
- podium
- postmodernism
- prairie house
- purlins
- Queen Anne
- Queen Anne revival style
- rafter
- rationalism
- rationalist
- renaissance
- revival
- ribbon development
- rococo
- rotunda
- rusticated
- sanctuary
- semiological
- shaft
- shingles
- spandrel
- Spanish tile
- springing
- squinch
- stanchion
- steel frame
- strapwork
- string-course
- structural rationalism
- structuralism
- stupa
- system-building
- tatami mat
- tenon
- tie rods
- tie beams
- tie bars
- tile hanging
- timber frame
- trabeated
- tracery
- curvilinear tracery
- plate tracery
- transept
- transom
- triforium
- truss
- turret
- Tuscan column
- tympanum
- vault
- vermiculated
- vernacular architecture
- vernacular revival style
- vista
- wall plane
- weatherboarded
Source Citation
Conway, Hazel and Rowan Roenisch. Understanding Architecture: An introduction to architecture and architectural history. New York City, New York: Routledge. 1994.
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