Info: Architecture Terms

[Arcady]

I often find myself looking for images for design ideas, but I don't always know the names of things I'm searching for. As I come across these, I thought it wouldn't hurt to have a bit of a visual glossary here in case anyone else has the same trouble. Please let me know if this is redundant or unnecessary here.

 

 

Pilaster: A shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a pillar.

 

 

 

 

Quoins: Any of various bricks of standard shape for forming corners of brick walls or the like.

 

[Midnight]

This is an excellent idea, it could help make searching for examples of architecture much easier.

 

A lintel can be a load-bearing building component, a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. It is often found over portals, doors, windows, and fireplaces.

 

A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface.

 

[Moonbo]

Bay Window: a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room

 

 

Bow Window: a curved bay window.

Edited April 26, 2013 by Moonbo

[Sotha]

Wiki entry material over here..

 

In the the forums, this will be buried after a while.

 

Some kind of "Architecture basics" article.

Most of us are not engineers or architects so some well written and nicely pictured crash course on basic architecture stuff would be great for mappers!

[Obsttorte]

In addition, many people here aren't native english speakers, so having the terms with pictures as "description" is always a good idea.

 

Just keep the thread up, and I, if noone else does, can pack it into a wiki article.