Glossary

** Art deco ** : [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/W/A/miami-artdeco.jpg align="baseline" caption="art deco"]]
During the roaring twenties and the early thirties, jazzy Art Deco architecture was the rage. Like any style, it evolved from many sources. The austere shapes of the Bauhaus School and streamlined styling of modern technology combined with patterns and icons taken from the Far East, ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, India, and Mayan and Aztec cultures. But most of all, Art Deco expressed excitement over a stunning archeological find in Egypt

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 * Bauhaus : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/7/Q/gropiushouse046.jpg height="392" align="baseline" caption="bauhaus"]]

// Bauhaus // is a German expression meaning //house for building//. In 1919, the economy in Germany was collapsing after a crushing war. Architect Walter Gropius was appointed to head a new institution that would help rebuild the country and form a new social order. Called the Bauhaus, the Institution called for a new "rational" social housing for the workers. Bauhaus architects rejected "bourgeois" details such as cornices, eaves, and decorative details. They wanted to use principles of Classical architecture in their most pure form: without ornamentation of any kind.

http://architecture.about.com/od/20thcenturytrends/ig/Modern-Architecture/ Bauhaus .htm

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** Block **: a usually rectangular space (as in a city) enclosed by streets and occupied by or intended for buildings (2) : the distance along one of the sides of such a block



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 * Blueprint : ** a photographic print in white on a bright blue ground or blue on a white ground used especially for copying maps, mechanical drawings, and architects' plans



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** Buttress **:

A buttress is a support--usually made of brick or stone--built against a wall to support or reinforce it. A flying buttress is a free-standing buttress attached to the main structure by an arch or a half-arch.

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 * Clerestory: **

A // clerestory // is a high wall with a band of narrow windows along the very top. The clerestory wall usually rises above adjoining roofs.

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** Compass **: Often, compass es. an instrument for drawing or describing circles, measuring distances, etc., consisting generally of two movable, rigid legs hinged to each other at one end (usually used with pair of ): to spread the legs of a compass and draw a larger circle.

Often, compass es. an instrument for drawing or describing circles, measuring distances, etc., consisting generally of two movable, rigid legs hinged to each other at one end (usually used with pair of ): to spread the legs of a compass and draw a larger circle.

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Individual ownership of a unit in a multiunit structure (as an apartment building) or on land owned in common (as a town house complex); also : a unit so owned
 * Condominium : **

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 * Cornice : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/G/o/6/cornice02-at.jpg height="269" align="baseline" caption="cornice"]]

The cornice is the uppermost section of moldings along the top of a wall or just below a roof.

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 * Cupola : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/G/0/t/cupola-at.jpg height="249" align="baseline" caption="cupola"]]

A cupola is a dome-shaped ornamental structure placed on the top of a larger roof or dome. In some cases, the entire main roof of a tower or spire can be a cupola. More frequently, however, the cupola is a smaller structure which sets on top of the main roof.

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 * Fanlight : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/G/b/C/fanlight-at.jpg height="384" align="baseline" caption="fanlight"]]

A fanlight is a semicircular or semi-elliptical window over a doorway or another window.

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 * Foursquare : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/4/P/american-foursquare-2533740.jpg height="330" align="baseline" caption="Foursquare"]]

The American Foursquare, or the //Prairie Box//, was a post-Victorian style that shared many features with the [|Prairie] architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. The boxy foursquare shape provided roomy interiors for homes on small city lots. The simple, square shape also made the Foursquare style especially practical for [| mail order house kits] from Sears and other catalog companies.

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** Gps **:  GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System, is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world. The capabilities of today’s system render other well-known navigation and positioning “technologies”—namely the magnetic compass, the sextant, the chronometer, and radio-based devices—impractical and obsolete. GPS is used to support a broad range of military, commercial, and consumer applications

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** Greenfield land **:

is a term used to describe a piece of previously undeveloped land, in a city or rural area, either currently used for agriculture or landscape design, or just left to nature. It can be unfenced open fields or urban lots, or restricted, closed property kept off limits to the general public by a private or governmental entity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_land

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 * highway : ** a public way; especially : a main direct road



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 * Merlons : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/G/z/s/battlement-at.jpg height="224" align="baseline" caption="Merlons"]]

On a castle or fort, a battlement or crenellation is a parapet with open spaces for shooting. The raised portions of a battlement ("A" in illustration) are called merlons, and the openings ("B") are called embrasures. Masonry buildings in the Gothic Revival style may have architectural decoration which resembles battlements.

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** Palladian Window **:

A Palladian window is a large window that is divided into three parts. The center section is larger than the two side sections, and is usually arched. Renaissance architecture and other buildings in classical styles often have Palladian window s. On Adam or Federal style houses, there is often a Palladian window in the center of the second story.

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Road : an open way for vehicles, persons, and animals; especially : one lying outside of an urban district



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 * Scullery : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/L/9/pbs-house-rear.jpg align="baseline" caption="Scullery"]]

A scullery is a room ajoining the kitchen where pots and pans are cleaned and stored and clothes are laundered. In Great Britain and the United States, houses built before 1920 often had sculleries.

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 * Stucco : ** [[image:http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/G/S/o/schenectady0170804.jpg height="246" align="baseline" caption="Stucco"]]

Traditional stucco is a cement mixture used for siding. The cement is combined with water and inert materials such as sand and lime. Usually, wooden walls are covered with tar paper and chicken wire or galvanized metal screening. This framework is then covered with the stucco mixture. Sometimes, the cement mix is applied directly to specially prepared masonry surfaces.

http://architecture.about.com/od/sidingconstruction/g/ stucco .htm

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