n. 25B6; noun
modern architecture : BUILDING DESIGN, building style, planning, building, construction; formal architectonics. See lists.
the architecture of a computer system : STRUCTURE, construction, organization, layout, design, build, anatomy, make-up; informal set-up.
Architectural Terms
See also church , tower , vault , window . inglenook
abacus intercolumniation
amphiprostyle intrados
ancon jerkin head
annulet keystone
architrave king post
archivolt lacunar
astragal lancet arch
astylar lantern
atlas linenfold
baguette lintel
bas-relief loggia
beading long-and-short work
boss lunette
buttress machicolation
campanile mansard
capital manteltree
capstone mezzanine
cartouche moulding
caryatid mullion
cavetto obelisk
clerestory octastyle
colonnade octofoil
column ogee
conch ogive
coping onion dome
corbel pediment
cornice pent roof
cove peripteral
coving peristyle
cresting perron
crocket pilaster
crow steps pillar
cruck plinth
cupola polychromy
cusp porch
dado portico
decastyle prostyle
dentil queen post
dipteral quoin
dog-tooth respond
dome reticulated
dosseret rope-moulding
dripstone rustication
echinus saddleback
embrasure scotia
encrustation scroll
entablature scuncheon
entablement sedilia
entasis severy
entresol socle
epistyle soffit
extrados spandrel
facade springer
fascia squinch
fenestration stringboard
fillet string course
finial stucco
flaunching stylobate
flute talon
flying buttress tambour
frieze telamon
frontispiece tetrastyle
gable tie beam
gambrel tracery
gargoyle transom
half-timbered trefoil
hammer beam truss
haunch tympanum
hexastyle vault
hipped roof vaulting
hood mould vignette
hypaethral volute
hypostyle voussoir
hypotrachelium
Architectural Styles
Art Deco Jacobean
Art Nouveau mannerist
baroque Manueline
Bauhaus medieval
beaux-arts modernist
brutalist Moorish
Byzantine Moresque
Cape Dutch Mozarabic
Carolingian Mudejar
Churrigueresque neoclassical
cinquecento neo-Gothic
classical Norman
collegiate Gothic Palladian
colonial Perpendicular
composite postmodernist
Corinthian quattrocento
Decorated Queen Anne
Doric rayonnant
Early English Regency
Edwardian Renaissance
Elizabethan rococo
Empire Roman
Federation Romanesque
flamboyant Saxon
functional Spanish-Colonial
Georgian Spanish-Mission
Gothic transitional
Gothic Revival Tudor
Graeco-Roman Tudorbethan
Grecian Tuscan
Greek Revival Usonian
international vernacular
Ionic Victorian Gothic
Islamic