Architecture Dictionary

Terms (1232)

• a/c
• a/c condenser
• abacus
• abandoned property
• abbey
• abutment
• abutter
• accent
• accoloade
• accouplement
• acoustics
• acropolis
• activate the space
• activity
• ada
• adapted plant 
• added antimicrobial treatment
• addendum
• additional dwelling unit (ADU)
• adjacencies
• adjacent site
• adobe
• aedicule
• aesthetic
• agent
• aggregate
• agora
• agreement
• aisle
• alcazar
• allowance(s)
• allée
• alterations
• alternate bid
• alternative daily cover (ADC)
• alternative fuel
• alternative water source
• amalaka
• amalgamation
• ambiguity
• ambulatory
• amphitheater
• annual sunlight exposure (ASE)
• anomaly
• anta
• ante-choir
• anthropogenic
• anthropology
• anthropometry
• anthropomorphism
• apadana
• application for payment
• appurtenance
• apse
• arabesque
• araeosystyle
• arbor
• arcade
• arch
• architect
• architect-engineer
• architects basic services
• architectural drawing
• architrave
• archway
• arcology
• arcuate
• area median income
• area wells
• arris
• arrowslit
• articulate
• articulation
• as-built drawings
• ase1000,250
• ashlar
• assemblage
• assembly
• astragal
• atlas
• atrium
• attendance boundary
• attic
• attic window
• automated dynamic façade systems
• average LED intensity (ALI)
• average rated flush volume
• axis
• back charge
• backfill
• background
• backing
• baffle
• bake oven
• balance
• balconet
• balcony
• baldachin
• ball flower
• ballast
• balloon framed wall
• baluster
• balustrade
• balustrade
• banal
• baptistery
• barge
• barge board
• bargeboard
• bartizan
• base
• base building
• base/baseboard
• baseline building performance
• baseline condition
• baseline water consumption
• basement
• basilica
• basis of design (BOD)
• bat
• batter
• battlement
• bay
• bay window
• beam
• bearing header
• bearing partition
• bearing point
• bearing wall
• bedrock
• belfry
• bell roof
• belvedere
• bema
• bench table
• berm
• bespoke
• bicycle network
• bicycling distance
• bid
• bid bond
• bid date/time
• bid form
• bid opening
• bid price
• bid shopper
• bid tabulation
• bidding documents
• bidding period
• bidding requirements
• bifurcate
• bim
• bio-based material
• blackwater
• blasé
• blind
• blobitecture
• block length
• blowdown
• blue print(s)
• blue stake
• board-and-batten
• bond
• bonding company
• boomburb
• bosket
• bossage
• bousillage
• boutant
• bow window
• brace
• bracket
• breaker panel
• breezeway
• bressummer
• bridging
• brise-soleil
• brownfield
• brownfield land
• brusselization
• brutalism
• btu
• budget (construction)
• bug rating
• buildable land
• building
• building code
• building envelope
• building exterior
• building inspector/official
• building interior
• building permit
• building process
• built-up roof
• bullseye window
• bulwark
• bus rapid transit
• butterfly roof
• buttress
• caisson
• campanile
• cancellus
• cantilever
• cantilever
• cantilevered void
• capital
• caravansary
• carbon offset
• caryatid
• casement window
• catalyst
• catenary
• cathedral
• cauliculus
• cavity wall
• ceiling
• ceiling joist
• celebrate
• cella
• cenotaph
• cfm (cubic feet per minute)
• chain of custody (CoC)
• chaitya
• chalciducum
• chalet
• chancel
• chandrashala
• change order
• change order proposal
• change order request
• chapel
• charette
• charrette
• chatri
• chattri
• check valve
• chevron
• chimera
• chimney
• chimney stacks and bundles
• chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-based refrigerant
• chresmographion
• church
• cincture
• cinquecento
• cippus
• circuit
• circuit breaker
• circulation
• circulation network
• civil twilight
• class "A"
• class "C"
• classical architecture
• classical figurative statuary
• classroom or core learning space
• clean waste
• clear glazing
• cleithral
• clerestory
• cloister
• closed bid/estimate
• closed-loop cooling
• co
• codes
• coffer
• colarin
• cold air return
• collar beam
• colonial kitchen
• colonnade
• color rendering index
• column
• combination oven discharge
• combined heat and power
• combustion air
• commingled waste
• commissioning (Cx)
• commissioning authority (CxA)
• community greens
• compluvium
• composite order
• compressor
• concept
• concrete
• concretization
• condensate line
• condensing unit
• conductivity
• conduit
• cone-shaped roof
• confluences
• conscious city
• construct
• construction
• construction cost
• construction document review
• construction documents
• construction documents phase
• construction impact zone
• construction management
• construction management contract
• construction phase
• consultant
• contemporary
• context
• contract
• contract administration
• contract bond
• contract documents
• contract over-run (under-run)
• contract payment bond
• contract performance bond
• contract period
• contract sum
• contract time
• contracting officer
• contractor
• contractor's option
• contractor's qualification statement
• contractual liability
• contrast
• control joint
• conurbation
• conventional irrigation
• cooling load
• cooling tower blowdown
• coping
• corbel
• corbusian
• corinthian order
• corner braces
• cornice
• cornice molding
• corona
• corridor
• cortile
• cost codes
• cost of work
• cost plus fee agreement
• counter flashing
• counterfort
• court
• courtyard
• covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&R)
• coving
• cradle-to-gate assessment
• crawl space
• create/provide a gesture
• crenellation
• cresting
• cricket
• critical path
• critical path method
• cromlech
• cross bracing
• cross bridging
• cross tee
• cross-wing
• crypt
• cryptoporticus
• csi
• csi master format
• cul-de-sac
• cull
• cultural landscape
• cuneus
• cupola
• curate
• cure
• curlicue
• current date line
• current facilities requirements (CFR)
• curtain wall
• curvilinear
• customer
• cyma recta
• cymatium
• cyrto-style
• dado
• daily construction report
• date of agreement
• date of commencement of the work
• date of substantial completion
• datum
• dead load
• deconstruction
• decorative motif
• dedicated storage
• demand response (DR)
• demand response (DR) event
• demising walls
• demountable partition
• densely occupied space
• density
• dentals
• denticulation
• departmental gross area (DGA)
• design
• design-build construction
• design-construct contract
• design-development phase
• detail
• development footprint
• device
• diagrammatic
• diamond-paned windows
• dian
• diastyle
• diaulos
• diazoma
• dichotomy
• differential durability
• dikka
• dimension
• direct access
• direct cost
• direct sunlight
• dissonance
• district energy system (DES)
• distyle in antis
• diverse use
• dodecastyle
• dolmen
• dome
• domesticity
• doric order
• dormer
• dormer window
• dosseret
• double doors
• double-hung sash windows
• dougong
• downspout
• downstream equipment
• draw
• drawings
• drift
• dromos
• drywall
• duality
• durable goods
• durable goods waste stream
• duration
• dynamic
• easement
• eave return
• eaves
• eclectic
• eclecticism
• edge city
• egress
• ekistics
• elbow roomers
• electric vehicle supply equipment
• electrical rough
• electrical trim
• electronic waste
• elemental mercury
• elevation
• elizabethan architecture
• emergency lighting
• employment center
• enclosure
• energy service provider
• enfilade
• enfilade
• engaged column
• engineered nanomaterial
• entablature
• entasis
• environmental product declaration
• ephebeum
• ephemeral
• epinaos
• ergonomics
• esoteric
• estimate
• estimate of construction cost
• estimating
• estrade
• eustyle
• evapotranspiration
• excavation
• exedra
• expansion joint
• explores the notion
• exposed rafters
• extended producer responsibility
• extensive vegetated roof
• exterior vegetated surface area
• external meter
• extrapolate
• exurbia
• fabric
• fabrication
• facade
• facade
• facadism
• facility or site analysis
• fan light
• fascia
• fast track construction
• fenestration
• feretory
• ff&e
• field
• field order
• field work order
• figure
• figure-ground
• final acceptance
• final inspection
• final payment
• finial
• finish date
• fire rated
• fire retardant chemical
• fire-stop
• fireplace surround
• fixed fee
• fixed limit of construction costs
• flared roof
• flashing
• floating
• floating wall
• floor
• floor area ratio
• floor plan
• floor-area ratio (FAR)
• flushwork
• fluting
• flying buttress
• flying rib
• flâneur
• folly
• foot-stall
• footprint
• form
• formal
• formeret
• formwork
• forum
• foundation
• foundation drain
• foundation ties
• free-flowing floor plan
• freight village
• french baroque architecture
• french doors
• fresco
• frieze
• functional entry
• furniture and furnishings
• fused grid
• gable
• gable roof
• gablets
• gadrooning
• galleria
• gallerie
• gallery
• galletting
• gambrel roof
• gantt chart
• garbha-griha
• gargoyle
• garret
• gauged brickwork
• gazebo
• geison
• general conditions
• general contracting
• general contractor
• generative
• genius loci
• gentrification
• geodesic dome
• gestalt
• gestalt psychology
• gesture
• gingerbreading
• girder
• golden section
• gopura
• grade
• grain
• grams per brake horsepower hour
• graywater
• green belt
• green infrastructure
• green power
• green vehicles
• greenfield
• greenfield land
• greyfield land
• grid
• grid plan
• grilles
• groin vault
• gross Floor Area (GFA)
• gross bulk generation
• gross local generation
• grotto
• ground
• hacienda
• haiden
• half-timbering
• hall
• hardscape
• hardware
• harmonic progression
• harmony
• hashira
• hazardous material
• heat island effect
• heat rough
• heat trim
• heating load
• hegemony
• herculaneum and pompeii
• hierarchy
• hierarchy
• highway
• hipped roof
• hippodrome
• historic building
• historic district
• holistic
• homogeneous
• homogeneous material
• hood molding
• hot-mopped asphalt for roofing
• how the ____ is received by the ____
• human scale
• hybrid
• hydrozone
• hypostyle hall
• i-beam
• iconic
• illuminance
• impervious surface
• improvements
• in antis
• incised linear shapes
• indemnification
• independent contractor
• indirect cost
• individual occupant space
• industrial process water
• infill
• infill site
• infiltration
• informal transit
• infrared (thermal) emittance 
• inpatient
• inpatient unit
• inspection
• inspection for disbursement of funds
• inspection list
• inspection report
• inspector
• inspiration
• integral labeling
• integrated pest management
• integrated project delivery
• intensive vegetated roof
• intercolumniation
• interfenestration
• interior finish
• interior floor finish
• interior wall and ceiling finish
• interiority/exteriority
• interlaced arches
• intermodal facility
• interstitial
• interstitial
• interstitial space
• intrados
• invasive plant
• invoice
• ionic order
• isovist
• it annual energy
• iteration
• iwan
• jack arch
• jacobean
• jagati
• jami masjid
• jettied story
• jettying
• jigsaw
• joinery
• joist
• juxtaposition
• ka‘ba
• keystone
• kitsch
• kondo
• labor and material payment bond
• lacunar
• lamp
• lamp life
• land trust
• land-clearing debris and soil
• landscape water requirement (LWR)
• language
• lantern
• latticework
• lead-free
• leasehold improvements
• least-risk pesticide
• legibility
• length of stay
• lien release
• lien waiver
• lien, mechanic's or material
• life-cycle assessment
• life-cycle inventory
• light pollution
• light rail
• light trespass
• lightning rod
• liminal
• linga
• lingdao
• lintel
• live load
• load bearing wall
• load shedding
• loculus
• loggia
• long-term bicycle storage
• louver
• low-cost improvement
• low-impact development (LID)
• lumens
• lump sum bid
• lump sum contract
• lunette
• madrasah
• major renovation
• makeup water
• manage (rainwater) on site
• mandala
• mandapa
• mansard roof
• mansionization
• map out
• marriage stone
• mascaron
• masonry
• mass
• massing
• massing
• mastaba
• master plan boundary
• materiality
• mausoleum
• mean lumen output
• meander
• medical furnishing
• meeting attendance form
• meeting notes
• megalith
• megaron
• menhir
• metaphor
• metering control
• mezzanine
• miesian
• mihrab
• milestone
• millwork
• minaret
• mirador
• missing middle housing
• mixed paper
• model
• modillion
• modular
• modular and movable casework
• module
• molding
• moment
• monastery
• monolith
• monolithic
• monopost
• monotriglyph
• morphology
• mosque
• motifs
• mounting height
• movable furniture and partitions
• mullion
• multitenant complex
• muntin
• muntins
• muqarnas
• mural
• mutule
• mylar
• naed code
• naos
• narthex
• native vegetation
• natural refrigerant
• natural resources conservation service (NRCS) soils delineation
• natural site hydrology
• nave
• nec (National Electrical Code)
• necropolis
• negative/positive space
• net usable program area
• new suburbanism
• new urbanism
• newel
• niche
• nimby
• nodes
• non-inpatient area
• non-regularly occupied space
• nonbearing wall
• nonpotable water
• nonwater toilet systems
• nonwater urinal
• nuance
• nuraghe
• obelisk
• oc (On Center)
• occupant control
• occupiable space
• occupied space
• oculus
• ogee arch
• on-site wastewater treatment
• ongoing consumable
• open bid/estimate
• open-grid pavement system
• openable window area
• operations and maintenance (O&M) plan
• order
• organic
• oriel
• orientation
• ornamental luminaire
• orthographic
• orthostates
• orthostyle
• out growth
• outdoor room
• outpatient
• outrigger
• over-hanging rafters
• overdevelopment
• owner
• owner-architect agreement
• owner-builder
• owner-construction agreement
• owner-construction management agreement
• owner’s project requirements (OPR)
• pagoda
• pailou
• palaestra
• palazzo
• palimpsest
• palladian motif
• panel
• panopticon
• pantheon
• paradigm
• parallax
• parametric
• parapet
• parclose screen
• parterre
• parti
• parti
• partition
• passage grave
• pastiche
• patient position
• patio
• pavilion
• peak demand
• peak watering month
• pedestal
• pediment
• pelmet
• pendentive
• penetrate
• performance bond
• performance specifications
• performative
• pergola
• peripteral
• peristyle
• permaculture
• permanent interior obstruction
• permanent peak load shifting
• permeability
• permeable pavement
• persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemical
• pert
• pert schedule
• phenomenology
• piano nobile
• piazza
• picturesque
• pier
• pilaster
• pillar
• piloti
• pilotis
• pitch
• place of respite
• placemaking
• plan
• plan checker
• plan view
• planceer
• planner
• plans
• plate girder
• platonic solid
• play with
• plaza
• plinth
• plug load or receptacle load
• plumbing rough
• plumbing trim
• plvi
• poché
• podium
• pods
• pointed arch
• poppyheads
• porch
• portcullis
• porte-cochère
• portico
• post
• post-and-beam
• post-industrial
• postconsumer recycled content
• postern
• potable water
• poteaux-en-terre
• power distribution unit output
• power utilization effectiveness (PUE)
• powered floor maintenance equipment
• pre-construction planning and team building
• pre-qualification of prospective bidders
• precast
• preconsumer recycled content
• predecessor
• preferred parking
• preliminary drawings
• preliminary lien notice
• premature obsolescence
• previously developed
• previously developed site
• previously disturbed
• prick post
• prime farmland
• private meter
• pro style
• process energy
• process load or unregulated load
• process water
• procession
• product (permanently installed building product)
• program
• programmatic adjacencies
• project electrical load
• projection
• promenade
• proportion
• propylaeum
• propylon
• protected view
• proud
• proxemics
• pseudodipteral
• pteroma
• public realm
• public water supply (PWS)
• pueblo
• pycnostyle
• pylon
• pyramid
• qibla
• quadriporticus
• quoin
• rafters
• rainwater harvesting
• rake
• rampart
• rath
• ratio
• raw material
• rear vault
• rebate
• reclaimed water
• rectilinear
• recycled content
• redundancy
• reentrant
• reference evapotranspiration rate
• reference soil
• refurbished material
• regenerate
• regionalism
• regular
• regularly occupied space
• regularly used exterior entrance
• regulated load
• remanufactured product
• renewable energy
• renewable energy credit (REC)
• repetition
• return
• reuse
• reused area
• revenue-grade meter
• revolving door
• rhythm
• rib vault
• ribbon development
• ridge board
• road verge
• robust
• roof
• roof comb
• roof ridge
• roofline
• room
• rotunda
• round-arched window
• roundel
• rubble brick
• rustication
• sDA300/50%
• saltbox roof
• salvaged material
• sanctuary
• sash
• scale
• schism
• school authority
• scope 1 emissions
• scope 2 emissions
• scroll
• sculptural forms
• section
• segmental arch
• semiotics
• sequence
• servant space
• served space
• server input
• service life
• setback
• setback (land use)
• shared multioccupant space
• shell space
• shell structure
• shoro
• short-term bicycle storage
• shrine
• shutters
• side light
• sikhara
• sill
• simple box energy modeling analysis
• simultaneity
• site assessment
• site master plan
• skin
• slate
• smart city
• soft space
• softscape
• solar garden/community renewable energy system
• solar reflectance (SR)
• solar reflectance index (SRI)
• solarium
• solid
• solid/void
• sound-level coverage
• source reduction
• space
• space
• spandrel
• spatial composition
• spatial daylight autonomy (sDA)
• speech privacy
• speech spectra
• spire
• springer
• squinch
• squint
• stained glass
• stair
• stalactite work
• stasis
• steeple
• stele
• stereotomic
• stickwork
• stoa
• stoop
• story
• streetcar
• striated brick
• stringcourse
• strollology
• structure
• stucco
• stupa
• stylobate
• sunburst
• superimpose
• sustainability
• symbol
• symbology
• symmetry
• synagogue
• synekism
• systems manual
• systyle
• ta
• tactical urbanism
• taxonomy
• technical Release (TR) 55
• technology
• tectonics
• tectonics
• temenos
• tensile structure
• terminating vista
• terrace
• tetrastyle
• thatched roof
• thermal emittance
• third place
• tholos
• three-year aged SR
• threshold
• threshold
• tile inset
• tile roof
• timber framing
• time-of-use pricing
• tokonoma
• topography
• torana
• torii
• tower
• trabeate
• tracery
• traditional ethos
• transept
• transient
• transom light
• transparency/opacity
• trellis
• trullo
• truncated
• truss
• turret
• tuscan order
• tympanum
• typology
• uSDA Organic
• undercover parking
• undercroft
• uniformity
• uniformity
• uninterruptible power supply (UPS) output
• unity
• universal waste
• unoccupied space
• upstream equipment
• urban acupuncture
• urban prairie
• urbicide
• vancouverism
• vault
• veranda
• vernacular
• vernacular architecture
• vertical illuminance
• verticality
• vestibule
• victorian era
• viewshed
• vihara
• villa
• vision glazing
• void
• volume
• volute
• voussoir
• wainscot
• walkability
• walkability
• walking distance
• wall
• waste diversion
• waste-to-energy
• wastewater
• wat
• water body
• water budget
• wet meter
• wetland
• wildlife corridor
• window sash
• wood
• wooden clapboards
• wooden shingles
• xeriscaping
• yard tractor
• yimby
• zaguan
• zeitgeist
• zero lot line project
• ziggurat
• zone of transition