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Architectural Styles
The curved or pointed top on a door or open entryway. Arches come
in many different shapes and styles.
An inner courtyard of a home or other building that is open to the
sky or covered by a skylight.
A rail and the row of balusters or posts that support it, as along
the front of a gallery.
These windows project out from the front or side of a house. Oriel
windows generally project from an upper story, supported by a bracket.
Bay windows are angled projections that rise up from the ground
on the first floor. Bow windows are rounded projections, often formed
of the window glass itself.
A small supporting piece of wood or stone, often formed of scrolls
or other decorative shapes, designed to bear a projected weight,
such as a window.
A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support
or reinforcement. (commonly found in Gothic architecture)
A metal or wooden window that opens outward or inward.
Overlapping horizontal boards that cover the timber-framed wall
of a house.
A vertical support; in an order it consists of a shaft and capital,
often resting on a base.
A row of columns, usually equidistant.
Any projecting ornamental molding that finishes or crowns the top
of a building, wall, arch, etc.
Indented; notched.
A dome, especially a small dome on a circular or polygonal base
crowning a roof or turret. Usually only decorative in modern homes.
Older cupolas can be reached by stairs.
A window placed vertically in a sloping roof that has a tiny roof
of its own. Most often seen in second-floor bedrooms.
The underpart of a sloping roof overhanging a wall.
The upper horizontal part of an order, between a capital and the
roof; it consists of the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
Any important face of a building, usually the principal front with
the main entrance.
A window, often semicircular, with radiating glazing bars suggesting
a fan that is placed over a door.
The middle part of an entablature, often decorated with spiral scrolls
(volutes).
The triangular upper portion of a wall at the end of a pitched roof.
It typically has straight sides, but there are many variations.
A roof with one low, steep slope and an upper, less-steep one on
each of its two sides, giving the look of a traditional American
hay barn.
The prevailing style of English architecture during the reigns of
George I, II, and III (1714- 1820), based on the principles of the
Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The style was transported
to England by Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren. It became the
prototype for the colonial style in America.
A style employed in Europe during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and
fifteenth centuries; also called pointed. It is characterized by
the use of pointed arches and ribbed vaults, piers, and buttresses
in the support of its stone construction. The style is best exemplified
by the Notre Dame in Paris and the cathedrals of Amiens and Bourges.
A roof with sloped instead of vertical ends.
A pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared
with the height.
A window with diamond-shaped leaded lights or glazing bars arranged
like an openwork screen; also, loosely, any hinged window, as distinct
from a sash window.
This roof is flat on top, sloping steeply down on all four sides,
thus appearing to sheath the entire top story of a house or other
building.
A window with three openings, the central one arched and wider than
the others.
In a classical-style building, the triangular segment between the
horizontal entablature and the sloping roof.
A shallow pier or a rectangular column projecting only slightly
from a wall. Primarily decorative.
A style developed in western and southern Europe after 1000 characterized
by heavy masonry and the use of the round arch, barrel and groin
vaults, narrow openings, and the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft,
and central and western towers.
A large circular window, usually glazed with stained glass, having
stone tracery radiating from the center, often with intricate petallike
patterns.
Window or door screens featuring horizontal slats that may be articulated,
allowing control over air and light transmission. They are usually
made of wood. While they may be hinged, modern exterior shutters
are often decorative and remain fixed to the wall alongside the
window or door opening.
Small, usually rectangular or fanlight window over a door. Some
transoms open to cross-ventilate a home, while others are only decorative.
The framing or edging of openings and other features on the facade
of a building or indoors. Trim is usually a different color or material
than the adjacent wall.
A small tower, usually starting at some distance from the ground,
attached to a building such as a castle or fortress.
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