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The art and the practice of putting together material in such a way as to produce a structure of some elaboration; especially, in architectural usage, a dwelling house, hall for meeting, place of worship, or the like. 2. The structure so put together and composed. (Sturgis, 1900)
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- civilizing hero
- Architecture / Empire / England & Britain
- Princeton Battlefield - Princeton, New Jersey
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- Writing
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- tea-house
- pigmented structural glass
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- Architecture / Empire / Roman
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- speaking tube
- Architecture / Empire / Egypt
- Architecture / Origin / Greek
- Architecture / Empire / Greek
- green building
- stoa basileus
- Façadism
- monument
- flat
- air-supported dome
- eagle
- botress
- botrasse
- buttress
- clasping buttress
- wall buttress
- body buttress
- buttress wall
- rounded buttress
- Early Renaissance
- Roman Doric portico
- clearstorey
- exedra
- belvidere
- icehouse
- Steps of Log Construction
- privy
- five
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- angle buttresses
- set-back buttresses
- setback buttress
- setoff buttress
- external buttresses
- set off buttress
- boterasse
- camp
- capitol
- arcaded block commercial building
- roof
- adobe
- adobe bricks
- aedes
- alaryne
- ale house
- alerin
- piloti
- stool
- auditorium
- festoon
- gable porch
- gabled porch
- clochaharium
- setback
- decorative terra-cotta
- eaves
- clock tower
- skeleton frame
- ziggurat
- foyer
- cantilevered corners
- pharmacy
- hôtel
- foundation
- hecatonstylon
- crepidoma
- crypt
- clock turret
- elevator
- quadrangle
- encircling porch
- encircling veranda
- veranda
- vane
- gymnasium
- portico
- hexastylos
- biloggial
- pilotis
- framing
- brace
- wing
- monopteron
- peripteral
- peripteros
- periptery
- peristasis
- nymphaeum
- design
- workshop
- enneastylos
- diptere
- dipteron
- dipteros
- pseudo-dipteros
- prothesis
- Vienna Secession House
- Hôtel Tassel
- Versailles Palace
- octagon
- Incantada
- Azekura
- stereobate
- belvedere
- erection bracing
- wood
- great room
- well
- planetarium
- aquarium
- telescope house
- shrine
- projection
- partition
- glazing
- theater
- catslide
- penthouse
- berm
- attic
- barn
- pavilion
- oktastylos
- polystyle colonnade
- market house
- plan
- sheathing
- wet standpipe
- brick-front commercial building
- downspout
- shoring
- cast iron
- spindle frieze
- hypaethral
- Brandenburg Gate
- pentastylos
- heptastylar
- cone
- bourse
- Ka'ba
- projecting dormers
- landmark
- Thersilium
- entry
- coin
- orientation
- mosque
- axis
- merchants' hall
- pagoda
- figure sculpture
- panel
- panorama
- window surround
- window surrounds
- half-timber building
- half-timbered building
- bay
- facade
- wrap-around balcony
- wraparound porch
- shell
- cross gable
- exterior chimney
- inside chimney
- corn crib
- backhouse
- outhouse
- flower box
- schoolhouse
- pedimented frontispiece
- canted bay window
- brise-soleil
- canton
- crescent
- star anchor
- commercial building
- wall dormer
- wall dormers
- story
- storefront
- entrance
- frontispiece
- fieldstone
- Romanesque commercial building
- business block
- false-front commercial building
- false front
- bead
- church
- continuous business block
- hall
- house
- louver
- brownstone
- presbytery
- brick
- door
- gambrel roof
- batten
- door surround
- framing timber
- lean-to
- gallery
- lantern
- wood quoins
- vernacular
- window
- cornice
- cladding
- shutter
- band
- porch
- dependency
- podium
- curtain wall
- pier
- prefabricated
- skyscraper
- elevation
- tower
- shaft
- balcony
- Stacked Vertical Block
- blind
- quoins
- quoin
- quoin stone
- smooth ashlar quoins
- stone quoin
- stone quoins
- shutters
- apron
- cutaway porch
- terrace
- turret
- Italianate commercial building
- cantilever
- stringcourse
- rotunda
- ell
- baptistery
- atrium
- loggia
- graffiti
- stair
- alryne
- alring
- alrine
- allure
- alleringe
- allering
- café
- Rococo
- palazzo
- dekastylos
- basilica
- molding
- shed roof
- attic story
- monitor
- skirt roof
- animal motif
- spout
- gable trim
- allegorical motif
- blind window
- recessed entrance
- tenement house
- street name sign on building
- Random Terms
- historic districts
- preservation districts
- demolition
- building permit
- fire house
- firehouse
- post office
- prison
- statehouse
- ironworks
- factory
- parking
- railroad station
- section drawing
- hipped porch
- pigeon-house
- Louis Quatorze architecture
- caserne
- capitole
- colombier
- arc doubleau
- entourage
- Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America (1988)
- glass block
- Creating the Artful Home: The Aesthetic Movement (2006)
- The American Glossary of Architectural Terms (1887)
- A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms (1928)