Architecture
The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
What is architecture?
The vertical elements, usually a rounded shaft with a capital and a base, which in most cases serves as support.
What is a Column?
A bas-relief ornament (sometimes painted) in the form of a stylized flower.
What is a Rosette?
The exterior face of a building, often used to refer to the wall in which the building entry is located.
What is a Facade?
A theme or predominant feature of a design.
What is an Motif?
A simple building framing system that uses a series of vertical posts and horizontal beams.
What is Post and beam construction?
The earliest type of classical Greek architecture, has a simple yet powerful capital design.
What is the Doric order?
The flat, middle portion of an entablature (sometimes decorated).
What is a Frieze?
A square or rectangular masonry or wood pier that supports a building and carries its weight of it down to the ground.
What is a Pier?
Residences built after 1955 with allusions to the colonial revival architectural style.
What is a Neo-colonial?
Lumber left exposed in construction that looks hand-cut and is heavily textured.
What is Rough-hewn?
The Greek classical styles is distinctive by the volutes (spiral scroll-like ornaments) used in the capital’s design.
What is Ionic order?
A molding with an S-shaped cross-section used on top of a baseboard or other structure.
What is an Ogee cap?
The portion of the wall that projects above the adjacent roof.
Wh is a Parapet?
The triangular gable end of a classical building, or the same form used elsewhere in the building.
What is a Pediment?
A window with top and bottom sashes that slide past each other vertically.
What are Double-hung windows?
The most ornate and recent of the Greek classical order. The capital’s design is heavily ornamented.
What is the Corinthian order?
The wall that encloses the end of a gable roof; triangular gable end below a roof overhand.
What is a Gable?
The projecting overhang at the lower edge of a roof.
What are the Eaves?
A brick oriented with the smaller end exposed on the face of the wall and a smaller dimension vertical; typically placed over window and door openings.
What is a Brick header?
A large rectangular block of stone or brick (sometimes wood) used to accentuate an outside corner of a building, typically in a toothed form with alternate quoins projecting and receding from the corner.
What is a Quoin?
The Roman-designed column style that combines characteristics of the ancient Greek-era Ionic and the Corinthian columns.
What is the Composite order?
A projecting roof structure that shelters an entrance.
What is a Canopy?
Neo-classical architecture in the style modeled after the Italian architect Andrea Palladio aka Andrea di Pietro Della Gondola.
What is a Palladian?
A bay window cantilevered out from a facade that starts above the ground level.
What is an Oriel?