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Assymetry: lack or absence of symmetry in spatial arrangements or inmathematical or logical relations
Palladian Window: a window in the form of a round-headed archway with a narrowercompartment on either side, the side compartments usually beingcapped with entablatures on which the arch of the centralcompartment rests.
Fascia Board: any relatively broad, flat, horizontal surface, as the outeredge of a cornice, a stringcourse, etc.
Facade: any side of a building facing a public way or space andfinished accordingly.
Arcade: a series of arches supported on piers or columns.
Coffer: one of a number ofsunken panels, usually square or octagonal, in a vault, ceiling,or soffit.
Symmetry: the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts onopposite sides of a plane, line, or point;
Corbel: any bracket, especially one of brick or stone, usually of slightextent.
Shouldered Arch: an arch consisting of a horizontal lintel supported at each end bycorbels that project into the aperture
Pediment: a low gable, typically triangular witha horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting acolonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
Rustication: any of various forms ofashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raisedabove or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usuallythe vertical joints.
Volute: a spiral ornament, found especially in the capitalsof the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders.
Cornice: any prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting featuresurmounting a wall or other construction, or dividing ithorizontally for compositional purposes.
Mullion: a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of awindow, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
Quoin: any of various bricks of standard shape for forming corners ofbrick walls or the like.
Transom Window: a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window orfanlight above it.
Dormer: a vertical window in a projectionbuilt out from a sloping roof.
Trefoil: an ornament composed of three lobes, divided bycusps, radiating from a common center.
Loggia: a gallery or arcade open to the air on at least one side.
Muntin: a bar for holding the edges of windowpanes within a sash.
Metope: any of the square spaces, either decorated or plain, betweentriglyphs in the Doric frieze.
Triglyph: a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutivemetopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with twovertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at thesides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flatvertical bands on the face of the block.
Eave: the overhanging lower edge of a roof.
Rosette: an architectural ornament resembling a rose orhaving a generally circular combination of parts.
Enfilade:
an axial arrangement of doorways connecting a suite ofrooms with a vista down the whole length of the suite.
Finial: a relatively small, ornamental, terminal feature atthe top of a gable, pinnacle, etc.
Gable: the portion of the front or side of a building enclosed by ormasking the end of a pitched roof.
Buttress: any external prop or support built to steady a structure byopposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting supportbuilt into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
Arch: a curved masonry construction for spanning an opening,consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or thelike, set with the narrower side toward the opening in sucha way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical oroblique stresses on either side of the opening.
Keystone: the wedge-shaped piece at the summit of an arch, regarded asholding the other pieces in place.
Awning: a rooflike shelter of canvas or other material extending over adoorway, from the top of a window, over a deck, etc., in orderto provide protection, as from the sun.
Cresting: a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usuallydesigned to give an interesting skyline.
Capital: the topmost member of a column
Baluster:small posts that support the upper rail of a railing
Balustrade: a row of repeating balusters
Canopy: an overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter
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Dormer: A structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface
Brise Soleil: A variety of permanent sun-shading structures
Cantilever: A beam anchored at only one end
Colonnade: a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature
Bulkhead: The term is frequently used to denote any boxed in beam or other downstand from a ceiling and by extension even the vertical downstand face of an area of lower ceiling beyond.
Sexfoil: a round ornament consisting of six lobes divided by cusps.
Definitions sourced from dictionary.com and Wikipedia
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