Architecture Glossary
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A

adaptive reuse

adobe

antebellum

architect

architecture

Art Deco

Art Moderne

Arts and Crafts

Austin stone

B

bargeboard

balustrade

battlement

Bauhaus

Beaux Arts

board and batten (board-and-batten)

building designer

bungalow

buttress

C

castle

California mission

chimney pot

clerestory

cob

Coffee House Modern (see Googie)

columns

compressed earth block (CEB)

corbel

cornice

Craftsman (see Arts and Crafts)

crenellation

cupola

custom home

custom home builder

D

deconstructivism

dentil molding

Doo-Wop (see Googie)

dormer

E

earth rammed

earth sheltered

eave

Eastlake

embrasures

entertainment architecture

F

fanlight

feng shui

fiber cement siding

floor plans

flying buttress

formalism

foursquare

frieze

G

gable

gargoyle

geodesic dome

googie

H

HardiPlank, HardiPanel

half-timbered

hipped roof

I

International Style

L

levee

M

madi

mansard roof

manufactured home

merlons

mitered

modernism

modular home

N

Neoclassical / Neo-classical

New Urbanism

O

oriel window

organic architecture

P

palladian window

parapet

pediment

pilaster

Populuxe (see Googie)

postmodernism

prairie school

prefabricated home

production home builder

professional building designer

quatrefoil

R

rammed earth construction

S

scullery

Space Age (see Googie)

stick built

straw bale construction

stock plans

stucco

structuralism

T

traditional neighborhood development (TND)

trompe l'oeil

tudor style

U

Usonian

V

vergeboard

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