Architecture Vocabulary
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- Architect
- a professional designer of buildings.
- Story
- the height of a building measured by floor levels
- Transom
- a window above a door
- Classical Architecture
- ancient Greek and Roman architecture, which had an emphasis on form, simplicity, and proportion.
- Façade
- the face or front of a building
- Asymmetrical
- not symmetrical; two halves of a building façade that do not match.
- Bull's Eye Window
- a round window
- Gable
- The triangular part of a wall that is enclosed between the sloping portions of a roof.
- Portico
- A roofed entrance porch supported on at least one side by columns.
- Palladian Window
- a three-part window with the center section arched and the two sides rectangular.
- Balance
- one half of a building has the same amount of decorative elements as the other half.
- Side light
- A framed area of fixed glass alongside a door or window opening
- Style
- classifications of architecture according to a building's type of structure and decoration
- Quoins
- obvious blocks on the outside corners of a building.
- Keystone
- the wedge-shaped piece at the top of an arch
- Fanlight
- semi-circular or fan-shaped window set over a door or another window
- Column
- A supporting pillar.
- Dormer
- a structure with a window that projects from a roof.
- Bay Window
- A projecting window
- Cupola
- A dome, usually small, topping a roof.
- Architecture
- a method or style of building.