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(McMorrough, 2013)
- Houses in Time (1997)
- Flemish double-stretcher bond
- person-centered design
- neuroscience of architecture
- prospect landscape
- green street
- homeostasis
- figural primitive
- Field Notes: Conversation Landscape
- Reef Point
- Field Notes : Sandwich Board
- eye of horus
- effigy mound
- Case Study of 'Detroit Through the Years'
- Field Notes
- A New Year’s Resolution for Wyandotte
- Two Approaches to City Building
- Combining Arts & Culture and Heritage to Spur Renaissance
- The Spirit of Wyandotte
- Creating Cool Downriver
- Preserving Wyandotte’s Theater
- The Saga of the Eberts House Continues
- Via Augusta
- Opportunities for Historic Preservation in Flat Rock
- tonsure
- areopagus
- pestle
- living history
- stoa basileus
- Glossary of North and South Carolina Architectural Terms
- American turpentine
- bichoca
- ACM
- Appleton Charter
- autochrome
- châteaux
- college
- compression piece
- crown-up
- deesis
- ellipsograph
- fire back
- guttæ
- gynecæum
- hoisting beam
- king’s closer
- L plan
- labour and nails
- palæstra
- rounded horseshoe arch
- RWC
- SMSA
- to
- main member
- mandrel
- bone black
- cinnabar
- mud sill
- radiocarbon dating
- Pebble Mosaic
- monochrome
- batten plate
- black lead
- chamfered joint
- clump
- compression fold
- dog iron
- foundry iron
- guard-rail
- high steel
- high tech
- iron work
- low steel
- overlapping joint
- passage-grave
- quarry water
- ring shake
- scenography
- slop brick
- springing stone
- standing bolt
- stay rod
- stiffening girder
- weld steel
- white lime
- chaitya hall
- centrally-planned building
- cubic capital
- hall crypt
- infilling
- jamb figures
- longitudinal barrel vault
- quadripartite rib vault
- maquette
- archivolts
- sling
- zinc white
- figured capital
- historiated capital
- external buttresses
- faux bois
- parade ground
- scroll moulding
- 15 over 1
- printing frame
- statehouse
- timberyard
- parking lot
- cater
- newelled stair
- Tiffany shade
- bas-de-page
- A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms (1928)
- WebRef Architecture (2005)
- Ontario Architecture (2005)
- A Guide to Architect Terms and Phrases (2018)
- Aaron
- Abraham
- abutment arch
- accent lighting
- acqueduct
- aluminum foil
- ambiguity
- analogy
- angle of incidence
- angle volute
- APE
- araeosystyle
- Archangel Zophiel
- arched dormer
- arched impost
- architectural classification
- art gallery
- artificial sky
- asbestos abatement
- asbestos shingle
- asbestos slate
- aspect ratio
- ASTM
- bald cypress
- balustrades
- barge cornice
- basic pig
- bath-room
- bearing pile
- bed mould
- bed-mould
- beveled molding
- blind stop
- book
- bracketed hood
- building inspector
- building occupancy
- building survey
- buildings
- butterflies
- by-wash
- California Ranch
- cantilever-arm
- ceiling cutout
- ceiling dome
- ceiling grid
- cement siding
- center to center
- channel beam
- Christmas rose
- circular architrave
- CLG
- closed-string stair
- compliance alternative
- Composite Capital
- composition shingle
- concord
- concrete girder
- concrete nail
- cone of vision
- conic section
- Constantine
- construction load
- coped
- coping course
- Corinthian pilaster
- court-house
- cross-beam
- cultural resource
- cupolas
- dalmatic
- daylight factor
- degradation
- demolition by neglect
- design review
- determination of eligibility
- diagonal braces
- distributed load
- dog's-tooth bond
- door interlock
- double stairs
- earth color
- Eclectic Style
- environmental impact
- false cap
- fashionable
- feldspar
- figure-ground
- fire detector
- fire rated
- flat plate slab
- fleur de lis
- floor beam
- folk architecture
- gargle
- Gestalt psychology
- ghost mark
- Glastonbury Thorn
- green-house
- ground plane
- ground sill
- half arch
- harmonic progression
- hazardous material
- heat island effect
- hellocaminus
- hemispherical vault
- heptagon
- Historic Sites Act
- historical
- honey-comb
- hydrographic map
- hyperbolic paraboloid
- invoice
- iron-work
- joggle-piece
- jumper
- laminated rib
- lateral
- leak
- leeward
- legibility
- libraries
- light wood frame construction
- light-house
- lineal foot
- liquefaction
- locus
- loop-hole
- M
- man
- marker
- materiality
- meridional line
- mess
- mock-up
- multiple property listing
- myrtle
- natural stone
- netting
- nominating authority
- Norman cottage
- notification
- oblique section
- ornamental cast iron
- Ornamental gardening
- ornamental stone
- outdoor museum
- oversailing
- parametric
- pearls
- Peg-Board
- Pennsylvania barn
- period of significance
- Persic order
- pin connection
- plain
- planned unit development
- plat-form
- police power
- polygonal vault
- poppies
- property type
- proxemics
- quail
- recessed lights side panels
- redlining
- reentrant
- retro-choir
- retrofitting
- Return from Egypt
- reversal
- risk assessment
- River
- sacraments
- salvage archaeology
- schematic design
- scroll-work
- seismic reinforcing
- shell construction
- skein screw
- slab-on-grade
- Spanish roof tile
- split level
- stabilization
- stair rail
- stair rail screw
- State preservation plan
- steel stud
- sun deck
- suspended floor
- suspended light
- tapestry brick
- thermal barrier
- three-point perspective
- tower crane
- trade
- transcendental curve
- tube structure
- umbrella roof
- uniformity
- US/ICOMOS
- vertical pivoting window
- vestments
- virtual moment
- virtue
- wall cornice
- wheat
- X-brace
- zeitgeist
- holy mountain
- Downtown - Rahway, New Jersey
- The Great Elephant March - New York City, New York
- Architecture: Form, Space & Order (1979)
- A Young Person's Guide to New Orleans Houses (1992)
- cantilevered
- order
- piercework
- cross brace
- fogon
- Understanding Architecture (1994)
- arts and crafts movement
- caryatids
- edge cities
- decorated gothic style
- early English gothic style
- jali
- machine aesthetic
- postmodernism
- rationalism
- rationalist
- Tuscan column
- base-structure
- Serlian window
- Saint Bernard
- twin stone arch bridge
- Downtown - Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Oval Office
- Cabinet Room
- Prime
- Nocturns
- Terce
- Nones
- Vespers
- Compline
- The Visitation of Elizabeth
- The Coronation of the Virgin
- moral hazard
- French Lick Resort - French Lick, Indiana
- A-frame
- Downtown - Morristown, Tennessee
- board of directors
- cash flow
- investor
- mission statement
- NOI
- RLF
- Small Business Development Center
- Ba'a Ta
- Kudioaniyima
- Kukayee
- Kuriohatsipe
- T'see
- Parkville Market - Hartford, Connecticut
- Greektown
- Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York
- atrio
- castra
- cruck construction
- periaktoi
- prytaneion
- sofa
- tableros
- floating dock
- Santa Maria del Fiore - Florence, Italy
- photovoltaic solar water heating system
- Downtown - Highland Park, New Jersey
- feng
- jiashan
- Glossary of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
- Downtown - Glassboro, New Jersey
- rubbed brickwork
- service hall
- Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion (2022)
- accessory dwelling unit
- accommodations tax
- airbnb
- analytics
- annual giving
- annual operating budget
- audited financial statement
- B2G
- Bailey Bill
- bequests
- boosted post
- bridge loan
- building cap
- buildout
- business manager
- business structure
- capital campaign
- capital expenses
- cash flow statement
- charity registration
- Class C Building
- clickbait
- COGS
- column spacing
- community development block grant
- compatibility
- content
- creative economy
- CVR
- debt coverage ratio
- Destination Marketing Organization (DMO)
- development agreement
- dissolution
- DM
- Economic Vitality
- equity financing
- evergreen content
- flex facility
- forward strategy
- Freedom of Information Act
- functional obsolescence
- G.A.A.P.
- general obligation bond
- gross lease
- hard infrastructure
- Limited Liability Company (LLC)
- lines of credit
- marketing campaign
- master lease
- mayor-council form
- media kit
- Memorandum of Agreement
- memorandum of understanding
- National Historic Preservation Act of 1966
- National Register Criteria
- National Register District or Listing
- omnichannel retail
- paid partnership
- placemaking
- pop-up retail
- post event feedback
- PPC
- relevance score
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
- request for qualifications
- Request for Quote
- Secretary of State Registration
- Secretary of the Interior's Standards
- site inspection
- small scale developer
- statement of functional expenses
- statute
- town center
- UGC
- weak mayor
- working board member
- working capital
- asset inventory
- absentee owner
- nidhogg
- amphiptere
- Our Lady of Victory
- land sale contract
- Wall Street
- urban artifacts
- Saint Sebastian
- FRB
- Saint Ignatius
- The Law
- Nine Choirs of Angels
- Powers
- Saint Catherine of Siena
- Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- demolition permit
- sliced veneer
- clear stuff
- independent cities
- silicate paint
- dies
- The Orders
- Dutch architecture
- pickling
- period
- thermal transmittance
- construction documents phase
- stress relieving
- form pieces
- mill run
- background noise
- kingpost
- splice bar
- air change
- rise and run
- reflectance
- absorptance
- coefficient of utilization
- slenderness ratio
- flow rate
- trenching
- structural design
- Zeno
- civil architecture
- punching shear
- revitalization
- noise reduction
- a/c condenser
- condensing unit
- anode
- capital city
- polar moment of inertia
- rising damp
- arson
- watershed
- developed length
- unsupported length
- sidesway
- swelling
- ambient lighting
- jute
- soil vent
- stack vent
- face joint
- overhaul
- breaker panel
- cold air return
- edge distance
- end distance
- throw
- pattern staining
- construction cost
- contour interval
- absorber
- supplier
- Westminster Abbey
- sutradhara
- bar spacing
- main beam
- fixed end
- hot springs
- wood tar
- running water
- sound pressure level
- circular temples
- weather slating
- cresteria
- strip window
- plastic art
- soluble glass
- water gage
- weather door
- steel-cage construction
- fish plate
- socket pipe
- heel cut
- rough string
- ceiling block
- steel concrete
- smooth dressing
- obscured glass
- heave-off hinge
- cross joint
- glass house
- forced draft
- final grade
- juniper
- door post
- dead lock
- railroad tie
- covered passage
- flange plate
- building block
- concrete tile
- checker-work
- persians
- cleanout door
- compound girder
- cold-rolled
- biomorphic
- polygonal rubble
- parking garages
- oculi
- new materials
- construction management
- weep holes
- floorboard
- St. Mark
- harped tendon
- agent
- halving
- off-center
- vaulted ceiling
- foundation ties
- brick masonry
- rough-cut
- fraud
- candlepower
- off site
- country residences
- outdoor room
- general lighting
- local lighting
- ephemeral
- real property
- brazing
- Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- national treasury
- industrial
- appreciation
- Neoclassical Revival
- weather moulding
- louver-board
- Edict of Milan
- bulges
- tablinium
- sukiya style
- oeuvre
- tailiang
- bodhisattva
- pastophory
- live
- winged creatures
- subsidy
- pumice
- area wells
- stone concrete
- Zen Buddhism
- canted column
- watertight
- back charge
- Pont du Gard
- cross-domed
- open sewer
- sewer pipe
- top bar
- end joint
- edge joint
- triangular file
- overflow
- bracketed string
- white cement
- box shutter
- architect-engineer
- wall board
- cantilevered void
- voltmeter
- Regency architecture
- flame detector
- planning grid
- Gothic Revival architecture
- solid arch
- multifoil arch
- heater
- Painted Ladies
- bleaching agent
- WC
- alternate bid
- monopost
- BSI
- shelf cleat
- tile batten
- welding rod
- clerestory window
- pneumatic water supply
- abutment wall
- skew vault
- expansion valve
- air valve
- sone
- composite construction
- gypsum concrete
- Romex
- wrench
- stippled
- percolation test
- pagodas
- steel tape
- rinceaux
- allowance
- loudness
- Byzantine style
- jack stud
- end-construction tile
- Citadels
- nailing strip
- dragged
- diaphragm plate
- crowsteps
- butt strap
- bid form
- continuous span
- wall molding
- safety chain
- spring bolt
- sound transmission class
- overhanging beam
- roll joint
- tetraconch
- round head
- asphaltic concrete
- restoring moment
- summer house
- combined footing
- chalking
- half landing
- connecting plate
- pipe reducer
- connoisseur
- speculative builder
- optical illusion
- X brace
- thumb nut
- coefficient of friction
- floating wall
- Cyclops
- drive screw
- sledge hammer
- dehumidifier
- U-value
- crusher
- turned bolt
- baseboard heater
- breaking load
- lateral load
- refrigerant
- double lock
- mechanic's lien
- pull box
- pigeon house
- fan-tracery vaulting
- breaking joint
- coped joint
- single-family dwelling
- tendon
- convector
- double-bevel weld
- angle valve
- water glass
- lime kiln
- sill anchor
- pinch bar
- coolant
- backflow
- sketch plan
- timber floor
- knuckle joint
- blower
- downdraft
- hoistway door
- starter
- wet meter
- lightning arrester
- towel rail
- natural draft
- wavy grain
- curb stop
- mat foundation
- coefficient
- bituminous concrete
- tied column
- reinforced concrete beam
- joint filler
- buzz saw
- chimney jack
- psychrometric chart
- Mesoamerican architecture
- stress reversal
- Venetian style
- beam box
- coaxial cable
- bake house
- centerline
- dotted line
- chuff brick
- hard solder
- floor bolt
- counterlath
- beam compass
- Lesser Bear
- Callimachus
- Greater Bear
- four horns
- full of eyes
- backout
- nogs
- ashlar imitation
- edge veneer
- quarter sliced veneer
- gingerbread trim
- rift sawn
- raised-field paneling
- charger
- envelope forms
- lang-lay rope
- Falernian
- lantern stairs
- Tuscan intercolumniation
- calcite streaks
- Whitby Abbey
- squalls
- Parhypate
- principles of law
- circular waves
- stopped fluting
- joint trench
- delicacy of workmanship
- maturing
- frictional gearing
- Olmec peoples
- machine-cut shingles
- rules for symmetry
- men of old
- city-dwellers
- makeup water
- jumpers
- drop feed
- WC 2PC
- blackwater
- journal packing
- drawing knife
- popularis
- pressure-equalized design
- confraternity
- plum
- board-and-batten siding
- sawn veneer
- shell vaulting
- in-filling
- siding shingles
- neutral wire
- illusionistic effects
- thin out
- adhered
- noise pollution
- black iron
- Coursed Limestone
- row related intermediate
- Homestead Act
- spaces linked by a common space
- isothermal glazing
- Georgian style of architecture
- Molly
- anaglypta
- Luxfer prism glass
- Asbetone
- Asbestos Air Cell Board
- stone coping
- offset right chimney
- posttension
- pre-posttension
- supercharge
- weatherize
- concrete screed
- face nail
- overroof
- block out
- backlight
- overheat
- fleuri cut
- fabricate
- modify
- back prime
- hip-moulds
- hip-tiles
- diminished arches
- circumsonant
- lying panels
- cross of the Evangelists
- thermoluminescence dating
- pipe covering
- performance specifications
- work done in overcoming friction
- work of resilience
- leading wheels
- naked child in balances
- artistic house
- cooling tower blowdown
- ichonography
- bubble
- vertical clearance
- top car clearance
- bottom car clearance
- speed of sound
- miscellaneous metal
- skiagraphy
- infrared thermography
- reversed photography
- half-timber framing
- form lining
- clere story
- head gate
- jaw plate
- clear height
- Fibonacci series
- Anti-modernism
- twelve rolls
- locomotive-pilot
- electric lateral
- kardines
- Homosote
- story shear
- occupant load
- between glass
- weight factor
- horizontal torsion
- cock loft
- main plate
- combplate
- bushhammered
- natural period of vibration
- control period
- contract time
- filament
- friction strip
- asinta
- jacking force
- tables of law
- Brahmasthana
- Augustan Forum
- inverse condemnation
- interior doorjamb
- patent brush hamered
- mean radiant temperature
- paint analysis
- apparent stress
- frame pieces
- wind stagnation pressure
- conditions, convenants, and restrictions
- candle-power
- embrazure
- construction administration
- gathering in
- scotchback
- ambient sound
- Huitzilopochtli
- unit of bond
- margin lights
- transmitter
- ripping size
- hymnody
- horizontal shearing stress
- vertical shearing stress
- funicular curve
- Tour de Puy-Berland
- design-development phase
- echometry
- sociology
- gantt chart
- Easter lily
- resistivity
- rolling friction
- metoikos
- quarter-notch
- nuragiie
- vault shell
- end reaction
- safety-factor
- percentage of voids
- efficiency of tackle
- luminaire efficiency
- ground acceleration
- spreading-rate
- solid frame
- hanging rail
- radius of curvature
- overdevelopment
- rural preservation
- parallelogram law
- shearing resistance
- A list
- knob stem
- cataloging
- pneumatic process
- recondition
- raking out
- oil hardening
- pressure grouting
- load trace
- housekeeping data
- code compliance
- postoccupancy evaluation