Architecture Vocabulary

adobe

aisle

apse

arcade

arch

architrave

ashlar

atrium

axial

bailey

baldacchino

baptistery

barbican

barrel vault

basilica

battlement

bay

bedrock

boss

bracket

buttress

campanile

cantilever

capital

centering

chancel

choir

clerestory

Cloisters

coffering

colonnade

column

concrete

corbel

cornice

crenellation

crossing

cruciform

cupola

curtain wall

cusp

dome

donjon

drum

elevation

facade

fan vaulting

finial

flying buttress

gallery

Gothic

Greek Cross

groin vault

gumbaz

iwan

keystone

lancet window

lantern

Latin cross

lattice

lintel

load bearing

wall

loggia

louvre

machiolation

madrasa

mahal

masjid

mausoleum

mezzanine

mihrab

minaret

minbar

mosaic

moulding

muqarnas

nave

oculus

pagoda

pendentive

peristyle

pier

pilaster

pinnacle

plinth

podium

post and lintel

presbytery

qibla

quoins

rib vault

Romanesque

rondel

rose window

rotunda

sanctuary

section

shell

shingles

sikhara

spandrel

squinch

arch

stupa

stylobate

terracotta

torana

trabeate

tracery

transept

triforium

truss

turret

tympanum

vault

volute

ziggurat

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