Charette 2: Hare Coursing

 Apse: a large semicircular polygonal recess arched or with a doomed roof.  

Arcade: succession of arches, each counter thrusting the next, supported by columns or piers; or covered walk enclosed by a line of such arches on one or both sides.  Exterior arcades provide shelter for pedestrians when weather conditions are not ideal.  

Arch: a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.  

Architrave: a main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature.   

 Asymmetry: lack of equality or equivalence between parts or aspects of something.  Not identical on both sides of a central line. 

Awning: a sheet of canvas or other material stretched on a frame and used to keep the sun or rain off a storefront, window, doorway, or deck.  

Axis: an imaginary straight line passing through the center of a symmetrical solid, and about which a plane figure can be conceived as rotating to generate the solid.   

 Baluster: a short pillar or column, typically decorative in design, in a series of supporting a rail or coping.  

Balustrade: a railing supported by balusters, esp. an ornamental fortification on a balcony, bridge, or terrace.   

Brise Soleil: a screen, usually louvered, placed on the outside of a building to shield the winders from direct sunlight.  

Buttress: a support built against a wall to reinforce it.  

Came: A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used in casements and stained-glass windows to hold the panes or pieces of glass together

Capital: Forms the topmost member of a column.  It mediate between the columns and the load thrust down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface.  

Colonnade: a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.   

Column: structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below.  

Corbel: structure piece of stone, wood or metal extruding from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.  Also a type of bracket.   

 Cornice: any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture element.  

Pediment: a low triangular gable outlined by a horizontal cornice below sloping cornice above, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a facade.   

Pilaster: an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a support columns and to articulate an extent of, with only an ornamental function.   

Portico: a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported but columns or enclosed by a wall.   

Quoin: blocks at the corner of a wall.  They exist to provide actual strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble and in other cases to make a feature of a corner.  This creates an impression of permanence and strength, and reinforcing the onlooker's sense of a structure's presence.  

 Rake: a horizontal molded projected that crowns or completes a building or wall. 

Rosette:  round stylized flower designed used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity.  

Sexfoil: an ornamental design having six leaves or petals radiating from a common center.