Encyclopedia - Architecture

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Aalto, (Hugo) Alvar (Henrik) abbey acoustics, architectural acropolis Adam, Robert adobe agora air-conditioning Alberti, Leon Battista alcazar Alhambra amphitheater Angkor Wat apse aqueduct arbor Arc de Triomphe arcade arch architecture

Asplund, (Erik) Gunnar Aswan High Dam atlas atrium attic auditorium baldachin baptistery Baroque architecture Barragán, Luis basilica battlement Bauhaus bay beam bearing wall Beaux-Arts style beehive tomb Behrens, Peter belfry

belvedere bema Berlage, Hendrik Petrus Bernini, Gian Lorenzo Bethune, Louise Blanchard Big Ben Blenheim Palace bond Borobudur Borromini, Francesco Boullée, Étienne-Louis Bramante, Donato Brandenburg Gate Breuer, Marcel (Lajos) brick bridge Brinkman, Johannes Andreas brise-soleil Brooklyn Bridge Brown, Capability

Brunelleschi, Filippo Brutalism Buckingham Palace building code building construction Bulfinch, Charles Burnham, Daniel H(udson) buttress Byzantine architecture cable structure caisson campanile canal Candela, Felix cantilever capital Capitol, United States caravansary Carpenter Gothic caryatid

castle catacomb cathedral cavity wall ceiling cella cellar cement cenotaph Chalgrin, Jean-François-Thérèse Champs-Élysées Channel Tunnel Chartres Cathedral Chicago School Chrysler Building church Churrigueresque civic center civil engineering clapboard

Classical architecture clerestory cliff dwelling cloister coffer cofferdam colonnade colossal order Colosseum column concrete conservatory corbel cornerstone court coving crannog crypt Crystal Palace curtain wall

cusp da Sangallo the Younger, Antonio (Giamberti) dado dam dike Diocletian window dolmen dome door dormer Downing, Andrew Jackson drafting Drottningholm Palace earthquake-resistant structure Egyptian architecture Eiffel Tower El Escorial electric discharge lamp elevator Empire State Building

entablature entasis Erickson, Arthur (Charles) escalator falsework fasteners Federal style Filarete fire escape fireplace fireproofing Flamboyant style floor floor covering fluorescent lamp flying buttress folly Fontainebleau Forbidden City fortification

forum foundation fountain framed structure Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster Functionalism gable gallery garden city gargoyle Garnier, Tony Gaudí (i Cornet), Antoni gazebo Gehry, Frank O(wen) Georgian style Gilbert, Cass gingerbread girder glass, architectural Golden Gate Bridge

Gothic architecture Gothic Revival Grand Central Station Graves, Michael great hall Great Mosque of Esfahan Greek Revival Greene and Greene Gropius, Walter (Adolph) Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Horyu Temple Hadid, Zaha Hadrian's Villa Hagia Sophia hall church halogen lamp hammer-beam roof Haussmann, Georges-Eugène heating high-rise building

Hoffmann, Josef hogan Holy of Holies Hood, Raymond M(athewson) Hoover Dam Horta, Victor, Baron Hunt, Richard Morris hypostyle hall Ibn Tulun Mosque iconostasis igloo incandescent lamp intercolumniation International Style Ise Shrine Ishtar Gate Isozaki Arata Jekyll, Gertrude Johnson, Philip C(ortelyou) joints and joinery

Jones, Inigo Kahn, Albert Kahn, Louis I(sadore) Karnak Katsura Imperial Villa Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts kiosk kiva Koolhaas, Rem kraal kremlin L'Enfant, Pierre-Charles labyrinth Lapidus, Morris lawn Le Corbusier Le Nôtre, André Leaning Tower of Pisa Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas Levittown

lift-slab construction light-frame construction lighthouse lighting Lin, Maya Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts lock lodge loft log cabin loggia London Bridge longhouse Loos, Adolf louver lumber luminaire Lutyens, Sir Edwin L(andseer) Mackintosh, Charles Rennie madrasah

Maekawa Kunio Masjed-e Shah masonry mastaba mausoleum McKim, Charles Follen mechanical system megaron Meier, Richard (Alan) membrane structure Mendelsohn, Erich menhir Metabolist school mews Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig mihrab Mission style module molding monastery

Mont-Saint-Michel Monte Albán Monticello Morgan, Julia mortar mosque Mughal architecture museum narthex Nash, John nave necropolis Neoclassical architecture Nervi, Pier Luigi Neumann, (Johann) Balthasar Neuschwanstein Castle Neutra, Richard (Joseph) new town Niemeyer (Soares Filho), Oscar Notre-Dame de Paris

nymphaeum obelisk oculus odeum Olmsted, Frederick Law order oriel orientation ornamentation palace Palenque Palladio, Andrea Pantheon Paris Opéra park parterre Parthenon patio pavement pedestal

pediment Pei, I(eoh) M(ing) pendant pendentive Pentagon penthouse pergola Perpendicular style Petrodvorets Petronas Towers piano nobile piazza picturesque pier pilaster pile pillar plaster of paris Plateresque plumbing

plywood pneumatic structure podium pole construction porch porte cochere portico portland cement post-and-beam system Potala Palace Prairie school precast concrete prefabrication prestressed concrete Pritzker Architecture Prize promenade propylaeum proscenium pueblo pylon

quadrangle quoin radiant heating rammed earth Raymond, Antonin Rayonnant style reinforced concrete Renaissance architecture retaining wall Richardson, Henry Hobson Rietveld, Gerrit (Thomas) Roche, (Eamonn) Kevin Rockefeller Center Rococo style Romanesque architecture roof rose window rotunda rustication Ryoan Temple

Saarinen, Eero Safdie, Moshe Saint Basil the Blessed Saint Mark's Basilica Saint Paul's Cathedral Saint Peter's Basilica Sakakura Junzo saltbox San Simeon scaffold Schinkel, Karl Friedrich Seagram Building Sert, José Luis setback settling Seven Wonders of the World shoji shear wall shell structure shinden-zukuri

shingle Shingle style shoin-zukuri shopping mall Shore Temple shotcrete siding sikhara skene skylight skyscraper Soane, Sir John soil mechanics solar heating Soleri, Paolo space frame spandrel spire stadium stairway

stalactite work stave church stele Stick style Stirling, Sir James (Frazer) stoa stone Stone, Edward Durell structural system stuccowork sukiya style Sullivan, Louis H(enry) surveying Sydney Opera House synagogue Taj Mahal Taliesin Tange Kenzo Tempietto temple

Temple of Heaven tent structure terrazzo theatre thermae tile timber framing tokonoma tomb topiary torana torii tower Tower of London tracery transept triumphal arch trullo truss Tudor style

Tuileries Palace tunnel Turkish bath Unité d'Habitation Vatican Palace vault ventilating Venturi, Robert (Charles) vernacular architecture Versailles, Palace of Vietnam Veterans Memorial villa Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel Vitruvius Wagner, Otto wall Walt Disney World Resort Washington Monument water-supply system Westminster Abbey

White House White, Stanford Willis Tower window Windsor Castle World Heritage site World Trade Center Wren, Sir Christopher Wright, Frank Lloyd Zwinger