arch
Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments
A form of construction, usually of masonry, in which a number of units span an opening by carrying the downward thrust laterally to the next unit and finally to the abutments or vertical supports. Unusually further described by its intrados outline, as round, elliptical, pointed, trefoil, etc. Photo from New York City, New York, 2018. (Saylor, 1952)
- St. James Cathedral - Seattle, Washington
- Architecture / Empire / England & Britain
- Clever Costume of the 1893 First Commercial Bank
- relieving arch
- Architecture / Origin / Greek
- High Victorian Gothic
- elliptical arch
- rising arch
- rainbow
- arch buttress
- soffit
- rood
- rood arch
- abutment
- accolade
- Etruscan
- pointed arch
- Romanesque Revival
- Crown
- extrados
- haunch
- intrados
- span
- Order
- spring
- thrust
- Palladian motif
- Venetian window
- segmental arch
- flat arch
- jack arch
- horseshoe arch
- archivolt
- tympanum
- centering
- rise
- arched
- Romanesque commercial building
- label stop
- skewback
- ogee
- groin
- foil
- squinch
- shaft
- lunette
- triumphal arch
- memorial arch
- round arch sash
- Florentine arch
- pillar
- blind arch
- vault
- discharging arch
- dosseret
- impost
- impost block
- springer
- voussoir
- stilted arch
- inverted arch
- semicircular arch
- corbel arch
- rampant arch
- Syrian arch
- three-centered arch
- semielliptical arch
- parabolic arch
- segmental window
- peardrop
- arc
- foils
- trefoil tracery
- trefoil arch with tracery
- post-and-lintel architecture
- Venetian
- coussinet
- arc doubleau
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- Architectural Styles (1979)
- The American Glossary of Architectural Terms (1887)
- A Concise Glossary of Architectural Terms (1896)
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- The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture (2001)
- Architecture Dictionary
- Gimli Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (2018)
- Classic Architectural Vocabulary (2023)
- Preservation Plan for St. Louis (1995)
- Downtown - Cranford, New Jersey
- Under Every Roof (1993)
- Glossary: Architectural Terms (2005)
- Common Architectural Styles and their Distinguishing Features (2005)
- Historic Preservation (2000)
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture (1997)
- American House Styles (2002)
- What Style is it? (1983)
- Identifying American Architecture (1977)
- American Architecture Since 1780 (1996)
- Tudor History Architecture Glossary (2005)
- WebRef Architecture (2005)
- Architectural Terms (2007)
- Centre County Architecture (2009)
- Dictionary of Architecture (1952)
- American Shelter (1981)
- American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940 (1988)
- Old House Dictionary (1994)
- Architecture & Ornament (1990)
- ABC's of Architecture (1998)
- American Houses (2004)
- Ontario Architecture (2005)
- Sturgis' Dictionary (1901)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture (1977)
- Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture (2022)
- English Church Architecture (2018)
- Glossary of architecture (2018)
- Church Symbolism (1938)
- A Dictionary of Architecture (1966)
- Architectural Description Guide (1978)
- Archetypes in Architecture (1985)
- An Illustrated Glossary of Architectural and Constructional Terms (1998)
- The Annotated Arch (2001)
- Architecture: From Prehistory to Modernity (2002)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture (2002)
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- Forms in Architecture (2005)
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- The Visual Dictionary of Architecture (2008)
- Marble Institute (2011)
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- Visual Arts Encyclopedia (2017)
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- Design Training (2018)
- Historic Environment Scotland (2018)
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- Ikonet (2021)
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- Architecture Dictionary (2023)
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- Adrian Architecture (2023)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (2023)
- Stromberg Architectural Products (2023)
- Study of the Orders (1906)
- From Abacus to Zeus (1968)
- ...Isms, Understanding Architectural Styles (2006)
- The Grammar of Architecture (2002)
- The Library of Congress: An Architectural Alphabet (2000)
- Architecture in America: A Battle of Styles (1961)
- Glossary of Savannah Architecture
- A Young Person's Guide to New Orleans Houses (1992)
- Sesquicentennial Tour - Wyandotte, Michigan
- brick vaulting
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Marx House
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Orr House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Rivers Edge Gallery
- mantel-tree
- Understanding Architecture (1994)
- ogee curve
- hyperbolic parabolic arch
- Ancient Roman
- Architecture / Style / Gothic Revival
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- Architectural styles: a visual guide (2020)
- Illustrated Glossary of Architecture, 850-1830 (1966)
- Metropolitan United Methodist Church - Detroit, Michigan
- Downtown - North Adams, Massachusetts
- The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
- Architecture / Style / Italian Renaissance
- Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans (1923)
- Visit to Old Westbury Gardens - Old Westbury, New York
- Downtown - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Downtown - Detroit, Michigan
- Architecture / Style - old
- Albion Interactive History / 300 South Clinton Street
- A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1995)
- Downtown - East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
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- Architecture / Style / Beaux Arts
- Architecture / Building / Hyphen
- Downtown - Somerville, New Jersey
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- Abingdon Historic District - Abingdon, Virginia
- zig-zag
- backfilling
- filling
- back filling
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- Downtown - Hanover, Pennsylvania
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- The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond (2014)
- Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion (2022)
- Aesthetics of the Main Types of Structure (2016)
- Three American Architects (1991)
- The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019)
- voussoirs
- AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC (1994)
- Introduction To Architecture: Architectural Dictionary of Terms, Movements and Architects (2025)
- Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism (1986)
- The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (2005)
- Architecture Without Architects (1965)
- Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details (1877)
- Dictionary of Islamic Architecture (1996)
- Buildings of Michigan (1993)
- Pompeii Archaeological Park - Pompeii, Italy
- Basilica del Sacra Cuore - Rome, Italy
- tie chain
- Colosseum - Rome, Italy
- Terme Di Diocleziano - Rome, Italy