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architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

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* A-frame building * A-un *

Abacus An abacus ( abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a hand-operated calculating tool which was used from ancient times in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, until the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. A ...

* Ab anbar * Abat-son * Abbasid architecture * Ablaq * Acanthus *

Accolade The accolade (also known as dubbing, adoubement, or knighting) () was the central act in the rite of passage Ceremony, ceremonies conferring knighthood in the Middle Ages. Etymology The term ''accolade'' entered English by 1591, when Thomas ...

Achaemenid architecture Achaemenid architecture includes all architectural achievements of the Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenid Persians manifesting in construction of spectacular cities used for governance and inhabitation (Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana), temples made for wo ...

Acropolis An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense. The term is typically used to refer to the Acropolis of Athens ...

* Acroterion * Adam style *

Adaptive reuse Adaptive reuse is the reuse of an existing building for a purpose other than that for which it was originally built or designed. It is also known as recycling and conversion. The adaptive reuse of buildings can be a viable alternative to new con ...

* Additive Architecture *

Adirondack Architecture Adirondack architecture refers to the rugged architectural style generally associated with the Great Camps within the Adirondack Mountains area in New York. The builders of these camps used native building materials and sited their buildings w ...

Adobe Adobe (from arabic: الطوب Attub ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is use ...

* Advanced work * Adyton *

Aedicula In religion in ancient Rome, ancient Roman religion, an ''aedicula'' (: ''aediculae'') is a small shrine, and in classical architecture refers to a Niche (architecture), niche covered by a pediment or entablature supported by a pair of columns an ...

* Aeolic order * Aerary * Aerospace architecture * Affordable housing by country * Affordable housing in Canada * Afromodernism *

Agadir Agadir (, ; ) is a major List of cities in Morocco, city in Morocco, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Sous River, Souss River flows into the ocean, and south of Casabla ...

* Airey house *

Aisle An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Aisles with seating on both sides can be seen in airplanes, in buildings such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parliaments, courtrooms, ...

* Akbari architecture *

Albarrana tower An albarrana tower () is a defensive tower detached from the curtain wall and connected to it by a bridge or an arcade. They were built by Muslims when they occupied the Iberian Peninsula between the 8th and the 15th centuries, especially from th ...

* Alcazaba *

Alcázar An ''alcázar'', from Arabic ''al-Qasr'', is a type of Islamic castle or palace in Spain built during Al-Andalus, Muslim rule between the 8th and 15th centuries. They functioned as homes and regional capitals for governmental figures throughout ...

* Alcove * Alfarje *

Alfiz The alfiz (, from Andalusi Arabic ''alḥíz'', from Standard Arabic ''alḥáyyiz'', meaning 'the container';Al ...

* Alure * Amalaka * Ambry * Ambulacrum *

Ambulatory The ambulatory ( 'walking place') is the covered passage around a cloister or the processional way around the east end of a cathedral or large church and behind the high altar. The first ambulatory was in France in the 11th century but by the 13t ...

American colonial architecture American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the Colonial history of the United States, colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colon ...

American Foursquare The American Foursquare (also American Four Square or American 4 Square) is an American house vernacular under the Arts and Crafts style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass-produced elements of the ...

* American Renaissance * Ammonite order * Amphiprostyle *

Amphitheatre An amphitheatre (American English, U.S. English: amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. The term derives from the ancient Greek ('), from ('), meaning "on both sides" or "around" and ('), meani ...

Amsterdam School The Amsterdam School (Dutch: ''Amsterdamse School'') is a style of architecture that arose from 1910 through about 1930 in the Netherlands. The Amsterdam School movement is part of international Expressionist architecture, sometimes linked ...

* Anastylosis * Anathyrosis * Anatolian Seljuk architecture *

Anchor plate An anchor plate, floor plate or wall washer is a large plate or washer (hardware), washer connected to a tie rod or Screw, bolt. Anchor plates are used on exterior walls of masonry buildings, for structural reinforcement against lateral bowing. ...

* Ancient Chinese wooden architecture *

Ancient Egyptian architecture Spanning over three thousand years, ancient Egypt was not one stable civilization but in constant change and upheaval, commonly History of ancient Egypt, split into periods by historians. Likewise, ancient Egyptian architecture is not one style, ...

* Ancient Greek and Roman roofs *

Ancient Greek architecture Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose Ancient Greece, culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Asia Minor, Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC ...

Ancient Greek temple Greek temples (, semantically distinct from Latin language, Latin , "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion. The temple interiors did not serve as meeting places, since the Ancien ...

* Ancient Indian architecture * Ancient monuments of Java *

Ancient Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often consi ...

* Ancient Roman defensive walls * Andalusian patio * Andaruni * Andean Baroque * Andron *

Anglo-Japanese style The Anglo-Japanese style developed in the United Kingdom through the Victorian era and early Edwardian era from approximately 1851 to the 1910s, when a new appreciation for Japanese aesthetics, Japanese design and Culture of Japan, culture influe ...

Anglo-Saxon architecture Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber with thatc ...

* Anglo-Saxon turriform churches * Annulet * Anta * Anta capital *

Antarala ''Antarala'' (Sanskrit: अन्तराल; ) is a small antechamber or foyer between the ''garbhagriha A ''garbhagriha'' () is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, often referred to as the "holy of holies" or " sanctum ...

* Antae temple * Antebellum architecture * Antechamber * Ante-chapel * Ante-choir *

Antefix In architecture, an antefix () is a vertical block which terminates and conceals the covering tiles of a tiled roof (see imbrex and tegula, monk and nun). It also serves to protect the join from the elements. In grand buildings, the face of e ...

Apadana Apadana (, or ) is a large hypostyle hall in Persepolis, Iran. It belongs to the oldest building phase of the city of Persepolis, in the first half of the 5th century BC, as part of the original design by Darius I, Darius the Great. Its cons ...

Apartment An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement (Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ...

Apodyterium In ancient Rome, the ''apodyterium'' (from , "undressing room") was the primary entry in the public baths, composed of a large changing room with cubicles or shelves where citizens could store clothing and other belongings while bathing.PBS https: ...

* Apophyge *

Apron An apron is a garment worn over other clothing to cover the front of the body to protect from liquids. They have several purposes, most commonly as a functional accessory that protects clothes and skin from stains and marks. However, other typ ...

Apse In architecture, an apse (: apses; from Latin , 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek , , 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; : apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical Vault (architecture), vault or semi-dome, also known as an ' ...

* Apse chapel *

Apsidiole An apsidiole or absidiale refers to a small semicircular or polygonal recessed space projecting from or arranged around the main apse of a cathedral. In medieval Catholic church design, apsidioles serve as basic units and key features of architectur ...

* Aqueduct *

Arabesque The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements. Another definition is "Foliate ...

* Araeostyle * Arcachon villa * Arcade *

Arch An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it. Arches may support the load above them, or they may perform a purely decorative role. As a decorative element, the arch dates back to the 4th millennium BC, but stru ...

Arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its structural load, loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either si ...

Architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

* Architects of Iran *

Architrave In classical architecture, an architrave (; , also called an epistyle; ) is the lintel or beam, typically made of wood or stone, that rests on the capitals of columns. The term can also apply to all sides, including the vertical members, ...

Archivolt An archivolt (or voussure) is an ornamental Molding (decorative), moulding or band following the curve on the underside of an arch. It is composed of bands of ornamental mouldings (or other architectural elements) surrounding an arched opening, ...

Architect of record Architect of record is the architect or architecture firm whose name appears on a building permit issued for a specific project on which that architect or firm performed services. Issuance of building permits Building permits are issued by a ...

Architectural acoustics Architectural acoustics (also known as building acoustics) is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a building and is a branch of acoustical engineering. The first application of modern scientific methods to architectur ...

* Architectural analytics * Architectural animation *

Architectural conservation Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property describes the process through which the material, historical, and design integrity of any immovable cultural property are prolonged through carefully planned interventions. The indivi ...

Architectural design competition An architectural competition is a type of design competition, in which an entity that intends to build new work, or is just seeking ideas, invites architects to submit design proposals. The winning scheme is usually chosen by an independent panel ...

* Architectural design optimization * Architectural design values *

Architectural designer The term architectural designer may refer to a building designer who is not a registered architect, architectural technologist or any other person that is involved in the design process of buildings or Urban design, urban landscapes. Architectura ...

* Architectural development of the eastern end of cathedrals in England and France *

Architectural drawing An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture. Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to deve ...

Architectural education in the United Kingdom After nearly a century of endeavour and negotiation which had been led by the Royal Institute of British Architects, a statutory Board of Architectural Education was formed under the Architects (Registration) Act 1931 ( 21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 33). Fo ...

* Architectural educator * Architectural endoscopy * Architectural engineer (PE) *

Architectural engineering Architectural engineering or architecture engineering, also known as building engineering, is a discipline that deals with the engineering and construction of buildings, such as environmental, structural, mechanical, electrical, computational, e ...

* Architectural Experience Program (AXP) * Architectural forgery in Japan *

Architectural firm In the United States, an architectural firm or architecture firm is a business that employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture; while in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and other countr ...

* Architectural geometry * Architectural glass *

Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (AHSS) is a society dedicated to the protection and study of the built heritage of Scotland. It has around 1000 members and five regional groups responsible for commenting on planning applications in ...

* Architectural historian *

Architectural icon An architectural icon is a building considered to be groundbreaking, or to claim uniqueness because of its design. Definition These outstanding buildings and ensembles meet several of the following criteria: # widespread recognition # popularit ...

* Architectural illustrator * Architectural ironmongery *

Architectural light shelf A light shelf is a horizontal surface that reflects daylight deep into a building. Light shelves are placed above eye-level and have high-reflectance upper surfaces, which reflect daylight onto the ceiling and deeper into the space. Light shelve ...

Architectural lighting design Architectural lighting design is a field of work or study that is concerned with the design of lighting systems within the built environment, both interior and exterior. It can include manipulation and design of both daylight and electric li ...

* Architectural metals *

Architectural model An architectural model is a type of scale model made to study aspects of an architectural design or to communicate design intent. They are made using a variety of materials including paper, plaster, plastic, resin, wood, glass, and metal. Mod ...

* Architectural mythology * Architectural photographers *

Architectural photography Architectural photography is the subgenre of the photography discipline where the primary emphasis is made to capturing photographs of buildings and similar architectural structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate in terms of re ...

Architectural plan In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure. Dimensio ...

* Architectural propaganda * Architectural psychology in Germany *

Architectural rendering Architectural rendering, architectural illustration, or architectural visualization (often abbreviated to archviz or ArchViz) is the art of creating three-dimensional images or animations showing the attributes of a proposed architectural design. ...

* Architectural reprography *

Architectural Review ''The Architectural Review'' is a monthly international architectural magazine. It has been published in London since 1896. Its articles cover the built environment – which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism � ...

* Architectural school of Nakhchivan * Architectural sculpture * Architectural sculpture in the United States *

Architectural style An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, for ...

* Architectural technologist * Architectural technology *

Architectural terracotta Architectural terracotta refers to a fired mixture of clay and water that can be used in a non-structural, semi-structural, or structural capacity on the exterior or interior of a building. Terracotta is an ancient building material that transla ...

Architectural theory Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are t ...

* Architectural vaults *

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

* Architecture for Humanity * Architecture in early modern Scotland * Architecture in modern Scotland * Architecture in Omaha, Nebraska *

Architecture museum An architecture museum is a museum dedicated to educating visitors about architecture in general or with a focus on a specific architectural style. Architecture museums may also educate visitors on the traditional history of architecture or art ...

* Architecture of Aarhus * Architecture of Aberdeen * Architecture of Afghanistan * Architecture of Africa * Architecture of Albania * Architecture of Albany, New York * Architecture of Algeria * Architecture of Almaty * Architecture of ancient Sri Lanka * Architecture of Angola * Architecture of Argentina * Architecture of Atlanta * Architecture of Australia * Architecture of Aylesbury * Architecture of Azerbaijan *

Architecture of Baku Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

Architecture of Bangladesh The architecture of Bangladesh is intertwined with the Architecture of Bengal, architecture of the Bengal region and the broader Architecture of India, Indian subcontinent. The architecture of Bangladesh has a long history and is rooted in Bang ...

* Architecture of Barcelona * Architecture of Bathurst, New South Wales * Architecture of Belfast * Architecture of Belgrade *

Architecture of Bengal The architecture of Bengal, which comprises the modern country of Bangladesh and the States and union territories of India, Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak Valley and eastern part of Bihar and Jharkhand, has a long and rich hi ...

* Architecture of Berlin * Architecture of Bermuda * Architecture of Bhutan * Architecture of Birmingham * Architecture of Bolivia * Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Architecture of Boston * Architecture of Brazil * Architecture of Buffalo, New York * Architecture of the Bulgarian Revival *

Architecture of the California missions The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emula ...

* Architecture of Canada * Architecture of Cantabria * Architecture of Cape Verde * Architecture of Cardiff * Architecture of Casablanca *

Architecture of cathedrals and great churches Cathedrals, collegiate churches, and monastic churches like those of abbeys and priories, often have certain complex structural forms that are found less often in parish churches. They also tend to display a higher level of contemporary a ...

* Architecture of Central Asia * Architecture of Chennai * Architecture of Chicago * Architecture of Chile * Architecture of Chiswick House * Architecture of Colombia * Architecture of Copenhagen * Architecture of Costa Rica * Architecture of Croatia * Architecture of Cuba * Architecture of the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture * Architecture of Dakota Crescent * Architecture of Delhi *

Architecture of Denmark The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking Age, revealed by archaeological finds. It was established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, then Gothic architecture, Gothic churches and cathedrals, wer ...

* Architecture of Dhaka *

Architecture of England The architecture of England is the architecture of the historic Kingdom of England up to 1707, and of England since then, but is deemed to include buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, p ...

Architecture of Estonia This article covers the architecture of Estonia. History Ancient Estonia A distinguishing feature of early Estonian architecture are the many strongholds and hill-forts found throughout the country, for example Varbola and Valjala strongho ...

* Architecture of Ethiopia * Architecture of Fez * Architecture of Fiji * Architecture of Finland * Architecture of Fredericksburg, Texas * Architecture of Georgia *

Architecture of Germany The architecture of Germany has a long, rich and diverse history. Every major European style from Ancient Roman architecture, Roman to Postmodern architecture, Postmodern is represented, including renowned examples of Carolingian architecture, ...

* Architecture of Glasgow * Architecture of Goan Catholics * Architecture of Gujarat * Architecture of Hong Kong * Architecture of Houston * Architecture of Hungary * Architecture of Hyderabad * Architecture of Iceland *

Architecture of India Indian architecture is rooted in the History of India, history, Culture of India, culture, and Indian religions, religion of India. Among several architectural styles and traditions, the best-known include the many varieties of Hindu temple a ...

Architecture of Indonesia The architecture of Indonesia reflects the diversity of Culture of Indonesia, cultural, History of Indonesia, historical, and Geography of Indonesia, geographic influences that have shaped Indonesia as a whole. Invaders, colonizers, missionarie ...

Architecture of Ireland The architecture of Ireland is one of the most visible features in the Irish countryside – with remains from all eras since the Stone Age abounding. Ireland is famous for its ruined and intact Norman architecture, Norman and Anglo-Irish peopl ...

* Architecture of Istanbul *

Architecture of Italy Italy has a very broad and diverse architectural style, which cannot be simply classified by period or region, due to Italy's division into various small states until 1861. This has created a highly diverse and eclectic range in architectural de ...

* Architecture of Jacksonville * Architecture of Jiangxi * Architecture of Johannesburg * Architecture of Jordan * Architecture of Kansas City * Architecture of Karnataka * Architecture of Kathmandu *

Architecture of Kerala Kerala architecture is a style of architecture found in the Indian state of Kerala, and in parts of the Tulu Nadu region of Karnataka. Kerala's architectural style includes a unique religious sanctuary architecture that emerged in southwester ...

Architecture of Kievan Rus' The architecture of Kievan Rus' comes from the medieval state of Kievan Rus' which incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and was centered on Kiev and Novgorod. Its architecture is the earliest period of Russian an ...

Architecture of Mali The architecture of Mali is a distinct subset of Sudano-Sahelian architecture indigenous to West Africa. It comprises adobe buildings such as the Great Mosque of Djenné or the University of Timbuktu. It can be found all over the Sahel region of Af ...

* Architecture of Malta * Architecture of Manchester * Architecture of Mangalorean Catholics * Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England * Architecture of Melbourne *

Architecture of Mesopotamia The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several distinct cultures and spanning a period from the 10th millennium BC (when the first pe ...

Architecture of metropolitan Detroit The architecture of metropolitan Detroit continues to attract the attention of architects and preservationists alike. With one of the world's recognizable skylines, Detroit's waterfront panorama shows a variety of architectural styles. The Post- ...

Architecture of Mexico The architecture of Mexico reflects the influences of various cultures, regions, and periods that have shaped the country's history and identity. In the pre-Columbian era, distinct styles emerged that reflected the distinct cultures of the ind ...

* Architecture of Monaco * Architecture of Mongolia * Architecture of Montenegro * Architecture of Montreal * Architecture of Mostar * Architecture of Mumbai *

Architecture of the Netherlands Dutch architecture has played an important role in the international discourse on architecture in three eras. The first of these was during the 17th century, when the Dutch empire was at the height of its power. The second was in the first hal ...

* Architecture of Nepal * Architecture of New York City * Architecture of New Zealand *

Architecture of Nigeria Architecture of Nigeria was historically influenced by environmental conditions as well as social and cultural factors. The coming of missionaries and political changes brought about by colonialism precipitated a change in architectural style and ...

Architecture of Scotland The architecture of Scotland includes all human building within the modern borders of Scotland, from the Neolithic era to the present day. The earliest surviving houses go back around 9500 years, and the first villages 6000 years: Skara Brae o ...

* Architecture of Scotland in the Industrial Revolution * Architecture of Scotland in the Middle Ages * Architecture of Scotland in the Prehistoric era * Architecture of Scotland in the Roman era * Architecture of Seattle * Architecture of Serbia * Architecture of Singapore *

Architecture of Sri Lanka The architecture of Sri Lanka displays a rich variety of architectural forms and styles. Shaivism has had a significant influence on early Sri Lankan architecture, during the reign of King Ravana, then Buddhism has also had a significant influenc ...

* Architecture of the Paris Métro * Architecture of the United Arab Emirates * Architecture of the United Kingdom *

Architecture of the United States The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries of independence and former Spanish, French, Dutch and British rule. Architecture in th ...

* Architecture of Uttar Pradesh * Architecture of Uzbekistan *

Architecture of Vancouver The architecture of Vancouver and the Greater Vancouver area consists of a variety of modern architectural styles, such as the 20th-century Edwardian architecture, Edwardian and the 21st-century modern architecture, modernist styles. Initially, ...

* Architecture of Vatican City * Architecture of Veliko Tarnovo * Architecture of Wales * Architecture of Warsaw * Architecture of Western Australia * Architecture of Yugoslavia * Architecture of Zimbabwe * Architecture parlante * Architecture schools in Switzerland * Architecture studio * Architecture terrible *

Arcology Arcology, a Blend word, portmanteau of "architecture" and "ecology",. is a field of creating architectural design principles for very densely populated and Sustainable development, ecologically low-impact human habitats. The term was coined in ...

Arcosolium An arcosolium, plural arcosolia, is an arched recess used as a place of entombment. The word is from Latin , "arch", and , "throne" (literally "place of state") or post-classical "sarcophagus". Early arcosolia were cut from the living rock, carve ...

* Ardhamandapa *

Area Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface. The area of a plane region or ''plane area'' refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while '' surface area'' refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-di ...

Arena An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for specta ...

Armenian architecture Armenian architecture comprises architectural works with an aesthetic or historical connection to the Armenians, Armenian people. It is difficult to situate this architectural style within precise geographical or chronological limits, but many o ...

Armenian church architecture Armenian church architecture is the architectural style of the Armenian church buildings created since the Apostolic era of Christianity in the Armenian Highland during the 1st century. It was developed over the last 1900 years. According to profe ...

* Arris *

Arrowslit An arrowslit (often also referred to as an arrow loop, loophole or loop hole, and sometimes a balistraria) is a narrow vertical aperture in a fortification through which an archer can launch arrows or a crossbowman can launch Crossbow bolt, bolts ...

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...

Art Deco architecture Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s, ...

* Art Deco architecture of New York City * Art Deco in Mumbai *

Art Deco in Paris The Art Deco movement of architecture and design appeared in Paris in about 1910–12, and continued until the beginning of World War II in 1939. It took its name from the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Intern ...

Art Deco in the United States The Art Deco style, which originated in France just before World War I, had an important impact on architecture and design in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The most notable examples are the skyscrapers of New York City, including the ...

* Art Deco buildings in Sydney *

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

* Art Nouveau architecture in Riga * Art Nouveau architecture in Russia * Art Nouveau in Alcoy * Art Nouveau in Antwerp * Art Nouveau in Strasbourg * Art Nouveau religious buildings * Artesonado * Articular church * Articulation *

Ashlar Ashlar () is a cut and dressed rock (geology), stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer to a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, a ...

* Assam-type architecture * Association of German Architects *

Astragal An astragal is a Moulding (decorative), moulding profile composed of a half-round surface surrounded by two flat planes (Annulet (architecture), fillets). An astragal is sometimes referred to as a miniature torus. It can be an architecture, a ...

Asturian architecture Pre-Romanesque architecture in Asturias is framed between the years 711 and 910, the period of the creation and expansion of the kingdom of Asturias. History In the 5th century, the Goths, a Christianized tribe of Eastern Germanic origin, arrive ...

* Astylar *

Atalburu image:Atalburu Mendiburua.jpg, 250px, ''Saubat de Arraidou et Maria de Hiriart 1743''Atalburu in Lower Navarre with a lauburu and founders' names image:Atalburu Mandoz.jpg, 250px, ''Iesus Maria Ioseph hilçiaz orhoitg-ziten Io(a)nnes de Urtiaga, M ...

* Atlantean figures *

Atlas An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of world map, maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth. Advances in astronomy have also resulted in atlases of the celestial sphere or of other planets. Atlases have traditio ...

Atmosphere An atmosphere () is a layer of gases that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A stellar atmosph ...

* Atrium *

Attap dwelling An attap dwelling is traditional housing found in the kampongs of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Named after the attap palm, which provides the wattle for the walls, and the leaves with which their roofs are thatched, these dwelli ...

Attic An attic (sometimes referred to as a '' loft'') is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building. It is also known as a ''sky parlor'' or a garret. Because they fill the space between the ceiling of a building's t ...

* Attic base *

Attic style In classical architecture, the term attic refers to a storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade. The decoration of the topmost part of a building was particularly important in ancient Greek architecture and this came to be ...

Aula regia An ''aula regia'' ( lat. for "royal hall"), also referred to as a ''palas hall'', is a name given to the great hall in an imperial (or governor's) palace in the Ancient Roman architecture and in the derived medieval audience halls of emperors, ki ...

* Australian architectural styles *

Australian non-residential architectural styles Australian non-residential architectural styles are a set of Australian architectural styles that apply to buildings used for purposes other than residence and have been around only since the first colonial government buildings of early Europea ...

Australian residential architectural styles Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated galvanised iron, corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of ...

Autonomous building An autonomous building is a hypothetical building designed to be operated independently from infrastructure, infrastructural support services such as the electric power grid, gas grid, municipal water systems, sewage treatment systems, storm dr ...

* Avant-garde architecture * Avant-corps *

Awning An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas woven of Acrylic fiber, acrylic, cotton or polyester yarn, or vinyl laminated to polyester fabric that is stretched tight ...

* Azekurazukuri * Aztec architecture

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Barabara A barabara or barabora (Russian); ulax̂, ''ulaagamax'', ''ulaq'', or ''ulas'' (plural) (Aleut language, Aleut); and ciqlluaq (Alutiiq language, Alutiiq ~ Sugpiaq)Jeff Leer (introduction) 2007 (eighth printing). Nanwalegmiut Paluwigmiut-llu Nupugn ...

* Bachelor of Architectural Studies * Bachelor of Architecture *

Back-to-back house Back-to-backs are a form of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, built from the late 18th century through to the early 20th century in various forms. Many thousands of these dwellings were built during the Industrial Revolution for the urbanisat ...

* Badami Chalukya architecture * Bailey * Baita * Balairung *

Balconet Balconet or balconette is an architectural term to describe a false balcony, or railing at the outer plane of a window-opening reaching to the floor, and having, when the window is open, the appearance of a balcony. They are common in France, Por ...

* Balconies of Cusco * Balconies of Lima *

Balcony A balcony (from , "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor. They are commonly found on multi-level houses, apartme ...

* Bald arch *

Baldachin A baldachin, or baldaquin (from ), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent Architecture, architectural feature, particularly over Alta ...

* Baldresca * Bale kulkul * Bali Aga architecture *

Balinese architecture Balinese architecture is a vernacular architecture tradition of Balinese people that inhabits the volcanic island of Bali, Indonesia. Balinese architecture is a centuries-old architectural tradition influenced by Balinese people#Culture, Balinese ...

* Balinese traditional house * Ball flower *

Baluster A baluster () is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features. In furniture construction it is known as a spindle. Common materials used in its ...

* Banjarese architecture *

Banna'i In Iranian architecture, banna'i (, "builder's technique" in Persian) is an architectural decorative art in which glazed tiles are alternated with plain bricks to create geometric patterns over the surface of a wall or to spell out sacred names ...

* Banqueting house *

Banquette A banquette (), rampart walk or parapet walk is a small footpath or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet of a fortification. Musketeers atop it were able to view the counterscarp, or fire on enemies in the moat. Typical they ...

Baptistery In Church architecture, Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French ''baptisterie''; Latin ''baptisterium''; Greek language, Greek , 'bathing-place, baptistery', from , baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned ...

* Baradari * Barbican *

Bargeboard A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof. The word ''bargeboard'' is pr ...

* Bargrennan chambered cairn * Barndominium *

Baroque architecture Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to ...

* Baroque architecture in Portugal *

Baroque Revival architecture The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term is used to describe architecture and architectu ...

* Barrel roof *

Barrel vault A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. The curves are ...

Bartizan A bartizan (an alteration of ''bratticing''), also called a guerite, ''garita'', or ''échauguette'', or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging turret projecting from the walls of late-medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th c ...

Baseboard In architecture, a baseboard (also called skirting board, skirting, wainscoting, mopboard, trim, floor molding, or base molding) is usually wooden, MDF or vinyl board covering the lowest part of an interior wall. Its purpose is to cover the ...

Basement A basement is any Storey, floor of a building that is not above the grade plane. Especially in residential buildings, it often is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the Furnace (house heating), furnace, water heating, ...

Basilica In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica (Greek Basiliké) was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek Eas ...

* Bastide (Provençal manor) *

Bastion A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the ...

* Bastion fort *

Bastle house Bastel, bastle, or bastille houses are a type of construction found along the Anglo-Scottish border, in the areas formerly plagued by border reivers. They are fortified Farmhouse (building), farmhouses, characterised by security measures agai ...

* Batak architecture * Batter * Battered corner * Battle of the Styles *

Battlement A battlement, in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals ...

* Baubotanik *

Bauhaus The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined Decorative arts, crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., ...

* Bay *

Bay-and-gable The bay-and-gable is a distinct residential architectural style that is ubiquitous in the Old Toronto, older portions of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The most prominent feature of the style is a large bay window that usually covers more than half the ...

Bay window A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room. A bow window is a form of bay with a curve rather than angular facets; an oriel window is a bay window that does not touch the g ...

Beach house Beach House is an American indie music, indie band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore in 2004 by current members Victoria Legrand (vocals, keyboards) and Alex Scally (guitar, keyboard, backing vocals, drum programming). Their work is char ...

* Bead and reel *

Beaux-Arts architecture Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporated Renaissance and ...

* Bed-mould * Beehive house * Belarusian Gothic * Belfry * Bell-cot *

Bell-gable The bell gable (, , ) is an architectural element crowning the upper end of the wall of church buildings, usually in lieu of a church tower. It consists of a gable end in stone, with small hollow semi-circular arches where the church bells are ...

* Bell roof *

Bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...

* Bell tower (wat) * Belsize Architects * Belt course * Belvedere * Bench table * Bent * Bent entrance * Berg house *

Béton brut ''Béton brut'' () is architectural concrete that is left unfinished after being cast, displaying the patterns, textures and seams imprinted on it by the formwork.''Exposed concrete.'' In: Béton brut is not a material itself, but rather a way o ...

* Bezantée * Biedermeier * Bifora * Bildts farmhouse * Biomimetic architecture *

Bionic architecture Bionic architecture is a contemporary movement that studies the physiological, behavioural, and structural adaptions of biological organisms as a source of inspiration for designing and constructing expressive buildings. These structures are desi ...

* Black and white bungalow * Black-and-white Revival architecture *

Black Forest house The Black Forest houseDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 154. . () is a byre-dwelling that is found mainly in the central and southern parts of the Black Forest in southweste ...

* Blackhouse * Blind arcade * Blind arch * Blobitecture *

Blockhouse A blockhouse is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It is usually an isolated fort in the form of a single building, serving as a defensive stro ...

* Blue roof * Bolection * Bond beam * Bosnian style in architecture * Boss * Bossage * Bossche School *

Bouleuterion Bouleuterion (, ''bouleutērion''), also translated as and was a building in ancient Greece which housed the council of citizens (, ''boulē'') of a democratic city state. These representatives assembled at the bouleuterion to confer and de ...

* Bowellism * Bowtell *

Bow window A bow window or compass window is a curved bay window. Like bay windows, bow windows add space to a room by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building and provide a wider view of the garden or street outside than flush windows, but combine ...

* Box gutter * Brabantine Gothic *

Bracket A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their n ...

* Brahmasthan * Branchwork * Brâncovenesc style * Brattishing * Breezeway * Bresse house *

Bressummer A bressummer, breastsummer, summer beam (somier, sommier, sommer, somer, cross-somer, summer, summier, summer-tree, or dorman, dormant tree) is a load-bearing beam in a timber-framed building. The word ''summer'' derived from sumpter or French ...

Bretèche In medieval fortification, a bretèche or brattice is a small balcony with machicolations, usually built over a gate and sometimes in the corners of the fortress' wall, with the purpose of enabling defenders to shoot or throw objects at the atta ...

Brick Expressionism The term Brick Expressionism () describes a specific variant of Expressionist architecture that uses bricks, tiles or clinker bricks as the main visible building material. Buildings in the style were erected mostly in the 1920s, primarily in Ge ...

Brick Gothic Brick Gothic (, , ) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Baltic region, Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though Glacial erratic, ...

* Brick Gothic buildings * Brick nog * Brick Renaissance * Brick Romanesque buildings *

Brickwork Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called '' courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall. Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by ...

* Bridge castle * Brief *

Brise soleil Brise, Brisé or Briše may refer to: * Brisé (dance), a type of jump in ballet * "Brisé" (song), Maître Gims 2015 *Brisé (music), Style brisé (French: "broken style"), Baroque music Places * Briše, Kamnik, Slovenia * Briše pri Polhovem G ...

* Bristol Byzantine * British megalith architecture * Broach spire *

Broch In archaeology, a broch is an British Iron Age, Iron Age drystone hollow-walled structure found in Scotland. Brochs belong to the classification "complex Atlantic roundhouse" devised by Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s. Brochs are round ...

Brutalist architecture Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by Minimalism (art), minimalist constructions th ...

* Brutalist structures * Bucranium *

Buddhist architecture Buddhist religious architecture developed in the Indian subcontinent. Three types of structures are associated with the sacred architecture, religious architecture of History of Buddhism, early Buddhism: monasteries (viharas), places to venerate ...

Building A building or edifice is an enclosed Structure#Load-bearing, structure with a roof, walls and window, windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, a ...

Building code A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for construction objects such as buildings and non-building structures. Buildings must conform to the code to obtain planning permis ...

Building design Building design, also called architectural design, refers to the broadly based architectural, engineering and technical applications to the design of buildings. All building projects require the services of a building designer, typically a licen ...

Building envelope A building envelope or building enclosure is the physical separator between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a building, including the resistance to air, water, heat, light, and noiseSyed, Asif. ''Advanced building technologies for ...

Building restoration Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property describes the process through which the material, historical, and design integrity of any immovable cultural property are prolonged through carefully planned interventions. The indivi ...

* Building typology * Buildings and architecture of Allentown, Pennsylvania * Buildings and architecture of Bath * Buildings and architecture of Brighton and Hove * Buildings and architecture of Bristol *

Buildings and architecture of New Orleans A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted through ...

* Buildings in Dubai * Burdock piling *

Burgus A ''burgus'' (Latin, plural ''burgi '') or ''turris'' ("tower") is a small fortified tower, tower-like castra, castrum of late antiquity, which was sometimes protected by an outwork and surrounding ditch (fortification), ditches. Timothy Da ...

* Burnham Baroque * But and ben * Butterfly roof *

Buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient (typically Gothic) buildings, as a means of providing support to act ...

Byre-dwelling A byre-dwelling ("byre"+ "dwelling") is a farmhouse in which the living quarters are combined with the livestock and/or grain barn under the same roof. In the latter case, the building is also called a housebarn in American English. This kind of ...

Byzantine architecture Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire, usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the Fall of Cons ...

Byzantine Revival architecture Neo-Byzantine architecture (also referred to as Byzantine Revival) was a revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings. It incorporates elements of the Byzantine style associated with Eastern and Or ...

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* Caisson *

Caldarium image:Caldarium.JPG, 230px, ''Caldarium'' from the Roman baths at Bath, Somerset, Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor. A (also called a ''calidarium'', ''cella ca ...

* Calendar house *

California bungalow California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of Residential area, residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Green ...

Camarín A camarín is a shrine or chapel set above and behind the altar in a church, but still visible from the body of the church. They are especially found in Spain and Portugal and throughout Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of ...

* Camber beam * Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture * Canada's grand railway hotels * Canadian Centre for Architecture * Candi bentar *

Candi of Indonesia A candi (, ) is a Hindu temple, Hindu or Buddhist temple in Indonesia, mostly built during the ''Zaman Hindu-Buddha'' or "Indianized kingdom, Hindu-Buddhist period" between circa the 4th and 15th centuries. The ''Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia'' ...

* Canopy * Cant *

Cantilever A cantilever is a rigid structural element that extends horizontally and is unsupported at one end. Typically it extends from a flat vertical surface such as a wall, to which it must be firmly attached. Like other structural elements, a cantilev ...

Cantoris Cantoris (Latin: "of the cantor"; ) is the side of a church choir occupied by the Cantor. In English churches this is typically the choir stalls on the north side of the chancel, although there are some notable exceptions, such as Durham Cathe ...

* Cape Dutch architecture * Capilla abierta *

Capital Capital and its variations may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** Capital region, a metropolitan region containing the capital ** List of national capitals * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Econom ...

Caravanserai A caravanserai (or caravansary; ) was an inn that provided lodging for travelers, merchants, and Caravan (travellers), caravans. They were present throughout much of the Islamic world. Depending on the region and period, they were called by a ...

Carolingian architecture Carolingian architecture is the style of north European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated west European politics. It wa ...

Carpenter Gothic Carpenter Gothic, also sometimes called Carpenter's Gothic or Rural Gothic, is a North American architectural style-designation for an application of Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival architectural detailing and picturesque massin ...

* Carport * Cartilage Baroque *

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Caryatid A caryatid ( ; ; ) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term ''karyatides'' literally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient t ...

Casa montañesa Casa montañesa is a form of folk architecture, traditional construction of La Montaña in the communities of Cantabria, east of Asturias and northern Castile and León in northern Spain. It should not be confused with casona montañesa, which di ...

* Cascina a corte * Cas di torto *

Casemate A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armoured structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary When referring to antiquity, the term "casemate wall" ...

Casement stay A casement stay is a metal bar used to hold a casement window in a specific open or closed position. Metal windows will normally have the stay included at the time of manufacture, while wooden windows will have them added after fitting. Different ...

Casement window A casement window is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges at the side. They are used singly or in pairs within a common frame, in which case they are hinged on the outside. Casement windows are often held open using a c ...

Castellum A ''castellum'' in Latin is usually: * a small Roman fortlet or tower,C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War; 2,30 a diminutive of (' military camp'), often used as a watchtower or signal station like on Hadrian's Wall. It is distinct from a , which ...

* Cast-iron architecture *

Castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...

* Castle chapel * Cast stone * Catalan Gothic * Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí *

Catalan vault The Catalan vault (), also called thin-tile vault, Catalan turn, Catalan arch, boveda ceiling (Spanish ''bóveda'' 'vault'), or timbrel vault, is a type of low brickwork arch forming a vaulted ceiling that often supports a floor above. It is co ...

* Catenary arch *

Cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ...

* Cathedral arch * Cathedral Architect * Cathedral floorplan * Cathedrals in Spain * Catshead (architecture) * Cavaedium *

Cavalier The term ''Cavalier'' () was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II of England, Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum (England), Int ...

* Cave castle *

Cavea The ''cavea'' (Latin language, Latin for "enclosure") are the seating sections of Theatre of ancient Greece, Greek and Roman theatre (structure), Roman theatres and Roman amphitheatre, amphitheatres. In Roman theatres, the ''cavea'' is tradition ...

* Cavetto * Cavity wall *

Ceiling A ceiling is an overhead interior roof that covers the upper limits of a room. It is not generally considered a structural element, but a finished surface concealing the underside of the roof structure or the floor of a story above. Ceilings can ...

Cella In Classical architecture, a or naos () is the inner chamber of an ancient Greek or Roman temple. Its enclosure within walls has given rise to extended meanings: of a hermit's or monk's cell, and (since the 17th century) of a biological cell ...

* Cell church *

Cenotaph A cenotaph is an empty grave, tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere or have been lost. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although t ...

* Central-passage house *

Centring Centring, centre, centering"Centering 2, Centring 2" def. 1. Whitney, William Dwight, and Benjamin E. Smith. ''The Century dictionary and cyclopedia''. vol. 2. New York: Century Co., 1901. p. 885., or center is a type of falsework: the temporary s ...

* Ceramic house * Chahartaq *

Chalet A chalet (pronounced in British English; in American English usually ), also called Swiss chalet, is a type of building or house, typical of the Alpine region in Europe. It is made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof and wide, well-su ...

* Chamber gate *

Chamber tomb A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interred than a simple grave (burial), grave. Built from Rock (geology), rock or som ...

Chambered cairn A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are fo ...

* Chambranle *

Chamfer A chamfer ( ) is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces. Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, fur ...

Chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the Choir (architecture), choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may termi ...

Channel letters Channel letters are custom-made metal or plastic letters commonly used in exterior signage on public and commercial buildings, and often internally illuminated. Unlit three dimensional letters that are applied to sign panels or monuments are usua ...

* Chantlate *

Chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...

Chapter house A chapter house or chapterhouse is a building or room that is part of a cathedral, monastery or collegiate church in which meetings are held. When attached to a cathedral, the cathedral chapter meets there. In monasteries, the whole communi ...

* Chardak * Charleston single house *

Charrette A charrette (American pronunciation: /ʃɑːˈrɛt/; French: �aʁɛt, often Anglicized to charette or charet and sometimes called a design charrette, is a collaborative, intense period of design or planning activity. The term was introduced to m ...

* Chartaque * Charter bole * Chartered architect *

Château A château (, ; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking re ...

* Châteauesque * Chattel house * Chemin de ronde *

Chemise A chemise or shift is a classic smock type of women's undergarment or dress. Historically, a chemise was a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect clothing from sweat and body oils, the precursor to the modern shirts commonly worn in W ...

* Cherokee Gothic *

Chhajja A ''chhajja'' is an overhanging eave or roof covering found in Indian architecture. It is characterised with large support brackets with different artistic designs. Variation is also seen in its size depending on the importance of the building on ...

* Chhatri * Chicago school * Chigi * Chilotan architecture *

Chimney A chimney is an architectural ventilation structure made of masonry, clay or metal that isolates hot toxic exhaust gases or smoke produced by a boiler, stove, furnace, incinerator, or fireplace from human living areas. Chimneys are typical ...

* Chimney breast *

Chinese architecture Chinese architecture () is the embodiment of an architectural style that has developed over millennia in China and has influenced architecture throughout East Asia. Since its emergence during the early ancient era, the structural principles of ...

* Chinese Chippendale * Chinese Islamic architecture *

Chinese pagoda A pagoda is a tiered tower with multiple eaves common to Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, and other parts of Asia. Most pagodas were built to have a religious function, most often Buddhism, Buddhist, bu ...

* Chinese temple architecture * Choga *

Choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

* Chola art and architecture *

Church architecture Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as Church (building), churches, chapels, convents, and seminaries. It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion, partly by innovation and partly ...

* Church architecture in England * Church architecture in Scotland *

Church window Church windows are windows within cathedrals, basilicas and other church edifices. They have been a central element in church architecture since Early Christianity. Early Christianity From the beginning, Christian churches, in contrast to the a ...

* Churches in Norway * Churches of Chiloé * Churrigueresque * Ciborium * Circulation *

Circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicy ...

Cistercian architecture Cistercian architecture is a style of architecture associated with the churches, monasteries and abbeys of the Roman Catholic Cistercian Order. It was heavily influenced by Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), who believed that churches should avoid ...

Citadel A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle, fortress, or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of ''city'', meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core. ...

City Beautiful movement The City Beautiful movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. It was a part of th ...

City block A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are th ...

City gate A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway. Uses City gates were traditionally built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city for people, vehicles, goods ...

* City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto * Clapboard *

Classical architecture Classical architecture typically refers to architecture consciously derived from the principles of Ancient Greek architecture, Greek and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or more specifically, from ''De archit ...

Classical order An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform. Coming down to the present from Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civiliz ...

Clerestory A clerestory ( ; , also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey; from Old French ''cler estor'') is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye-level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both. Historically, a ''clerestory' ...

* Clerk of works * Cliff dwelling *

Clock gable The clock gable (), also known as Dutch clock gable, is a gable or facade with decorative shape characteristic of traditional Architecture of the Netherlands, Dutch architecture. The top of the gable is shaped like the cross-section of a church bel ...

Cloister A cloister (from Latin , "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open Arcade (architecture), arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle (architecture), quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cat ...

* Cloister vault *

Coade stone Coade stone or ''Lithodipyra'' or ''Lithodipra'' () is stoneware that was often described as an artificial stone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was used for moulding neoclassical architecture, neoclassical statues, a ...

* Cobblestone architecture * Coenaculum * Coercion castle *

Coffer A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, al ...

Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europ ...

* Colonette *

Colonial architecture Colonial architecture is a hybrid architectural style that arose as colonists combined architectural styles from their country of origin with design characteristics of the settled country. Colonists frequently built houses and buildings in a sty ...

* Colonial architecture in Jakarta * Colonial architecture in Padang * Colonial architecture in Surabaya * Colonial architecture of Indonesia * Colonial architecture of Makassar * Colonial architecture of Southeast Asia *

Colonial Revival architecture The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...

Colonnade In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. Paired or multiple pairs of columns are normally employed in a colonnade which can be straight or curv ...

Column A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member ...

* Comacine masters * Combination stair *

Compass A compass is a device that shows the cardinal directions used for navigation and geographic orientation. It commonly consists of a magnetized needle or other element, such as a compass card or compass rose, which can pivot to align itself with No ...

Complementary architecture Complementary architecture is a movement in contemporary architecture promoting architectural . Indispensable features of complementary architecture include sustainability, altruism, contextualism, endemism and continuity of specific regional ...

* Compound pier * Compression member * Computer-aided architectural design * Comtois steeple *

Concatenation In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In certain formalizations of concatenati ...

Concentric castle A concentric castle is a castle with two or more concentric Curtain wall (fortification), curtain walls, such that the outer wall is lower than the inner and can be defended from it. The layout was square (at Belvoir Fortress, Belvoir and ...

* Conceptual architecture * Conch house * Concrete landscape curbing * Concrete shell *

Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne The ''Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne'' (CIAM), or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible for a series of events and congresses arranged across Europ ...

* Conical roof * Conisterium * Connected farm * Construction partnering * Constructivist architecture * Consumption wall *

Contemporary architecture Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of tradit ...

* Contextual architecture * Conversation pit *

Coping Coping refers to conscious or unconscious strategies used to reduce and manage unpleasant emotions. Coping strategies can be cognitions or behaviors and can be individual or social. To cope is to deal with struggles and difficulties in life. It ...

* Copper cladding *

Copper in architecture Copper has earned a respected place in the related fields of architecture, building construction, and interior design.Kireta Jr., Andy (2009). The copper advantage, ''Metal Architecture,'' June 2009; www.metalarchitecture.com From cathedrals ...

Coptic architecture Coptic architecture is the architecture of the Copt, Coptic Christians, who form the majority of Christianity in Egypt, Christians in Egypt. Coptic churches range from great cathedrals such as Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral to the smalle ...

Copyright in architecture in the United States Copyright in architecture is an important, but little understood subject in the architectural discipline. Copyright is a legal concept that gives the creator of a work the exclusive right to use that work for a limited time. These rights can be a ...

Corbel In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal keyed into and projecting from a wall to carry a wikt:superincumbent, bearing weight, a type of bracket (architecture), bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in t ...

Corbel arch A corbel arch (or corbeled / corbelled arch) is an arch-like construction method that uses the architecture, architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure, such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge ...

Cordonata The cordonata (Italian word, from ''cordone'', which in architecture means "linear element which emphasizes a limit") is a sloping road interrupted at regular distances by low (8-10 cm) steps in the form of transversal stripes (''cordoni'') made ...

Core Core or cores may refer to: Science and technology * Core (anatomy), everything except the appendages * Core (laboratory), a highly specialized shared research resource * Core (manufacturing), used in casting and molding * Core (optical fiber ...

Corinthian order The Corinthian order (, ''Korinthiakós rythmós''; ) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric or ...

Cornerstone A cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry Foundation (engineering), foundation. All other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entir ...

* Corner tower * Cornice * Coron (house), Coron * Corps de logis * Cosmatesque * Cotswold architecture * Cottage flat * Cottage orné * Cottage window * Council architect * Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat * Counter-arch * Coupled column * Court of honor (architecture), Court of honor (Cour d'honneur) * Course (architecture), Course * Court cairn * Courtyard house * Cove lighting * Coved ceiling * Covertway * Crannog * Creole architecture in the United States * Crepidoma * Crescent (architecture), Crescent * Cresting (architecture), Cresting * Crimson Architectural Historians * Crinkle crankle wall * Critical regionalism * Croatian pre-Romanesque art and architecture * Crocket * Crooked spire * Cross-in-square * Cross-wall * Cross-window * Cross-wing * Crossing (architecture), Crossing * Crowdsourcing architecture * Crown molding * Crown steeple * Crownwork * Cruciform * Crypt * Cryptoporticus * Cubiculum * Curtain wall (architecture), Curtain wall * Cyclopean masonry * Cyclostyle * Cymatium * Cyzicene hall * Czech architecture * Czech Baroque architecture * Czech Cubism * Czech Gothic architecture * Czech Renaissance architecture

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* Dado (architecture), Dado * Dado rail * Daibutsuyō * Dakkah * Danish design * Darbazi * Dargah * Dartmoor longhouse * Deck (building), Deck * Deconstruction (building), Deconstruction * Deconstructivism * Deep foundation * Deep Jyoti Stambh * Deep plan * Defensive wall * Defensive towers of Cantabria * Demerara window * Dentil * Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain * Detinets * Diagrid * Diamond vault * Diapering * Diaphragm arch * Diaulos (architecture), Diaulos * Digital architecture * Dikka * Diocletian window * Discharging arch * Disordered piling * Dissenting Gothic * Distyle * Distyle in antis * Dō (architecture), Dō * Doctor of Architecture * Dog-tooth * Dome * Domus * Doric order * Dormer * Double chapel * Double-skin facade * Dougong * Dragestil * Dravidian architecture * Drawing board * Dropped ceiling * Drum tower (Asia), Drum tower * Dry stone * Dun (fortification) * Duomo * Duplex (building) * Dutch architecture in Semarang * Dutch Baroque architecture * Dutch brick * Dutch Colonial architecture (New Netherland), Dutch Colonial architecture * Dutch Colonial Revival architecture * Dutch door * Dutch gable * Dwarf gallery * Dzong architecture

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* Early Christian art and architecture * Early New York Architecture in 19th Century * Early skyscrapers * Earthquake Baroque * East Asian hip-and-gable roof * Easter Sepulchre * Eastern Orthodox church architecture * Eastlake movement * Eave return * Eaves * Eclecticism in architecture * Edwardian architecture * Edwardian Baroque architecture * Egg-and-dart * Egyptian pyramids * Egyptian pyramid construction techniques * Egyptian Revival architecture * Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles * Elevated entrance * Elizabethan architecture * Elizabethan Baroque * Ell (architecture), Ell * Ellipsoidal dome * Elliptical dome * Embrasure * Emissary (hydraulics), Emissary * Empire style * Enceinte * Enclosure castle * Enfilade (architecture), Enfilade * Engaged column * Engawa * English Baroque * English country house * English Gothic architecture * Entablature * Entasis * Ergastulum * Estate houses in Scotland * Estipite * Estonian vernacular architecture * Etruscan architecture * European medieval architecture in North America * European Route of Brick Gothic * European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture * Euthynteria * Examination for Architects in Canada * Exedra * Experimental architecture * Expression (architecture), Expression * Expressionist architecture

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* Fabric structure * Facade * Facadism * False door * Falsework * Familok * Fanlight * Fan vault * Fantastic architecture * Farmhouse * Fascia (architecture), Fascia * Fascist architecture * Fatimid architecture * Fatimid Great Palaces * Fauces (architecture), Fauces * Faussebraye * Federal architecture * Federal modernism * Federation architecture * Fender pier * Ferro (architecture), Ferro * Festoon * Fina (architecture), Fina * Finial * Firebox (architecture), Firebox * Fire door * Fire lookout tower * Firewall (construction), Firewall * First national architectural movement * First Period * First Romanesque * Flak tower * Flamboyant * Flame palmette * Flanking tower * Flat roof * Flèche (architecture) * Flèche (fortification) * Flèche faîtière * Fleuron (architecture), Fleuron * Float glass * Floating floor * Flood arch * Floor medallion * Floor plan * Floor vibration * Florida cracker architecture * Florida modern * Flushwork * Fluting (architecture) * Flying arch * Flying buttress * Foil (architecture), Foil * Folk Victorian * Folly * Folly fort * Forced perspective * Courtyard, Forecourt * Form follows function * Fortification * Fortified gateway * Fortified house * Fortified tower * Fortochka * Fortress church * Fortress synagogue * Forum (Roman), Forum * Foundation (engineering), Foundation * Four-centred arch * Frederician Rococo * Free plan * French architecture * French Baroque architecture * French Colonial * French Gothic architecture * French Renaissance architecture * French Restoration style * French Romanesque architecture * Frëngji * Fretwork * Frieze * Frigidarium * Frisian farmhouse * Frontispiece (architecture), Frontispiece * Fumarium * Funco (architecture), Funco * Functionalism (architecture), Functionalism * Fusuma

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* Gabion * Gable * Gablefront house * Gable roof * Gablet roof * Gable stone * Gaiola (construction), Gaiola * Galilee (church architecture), Galilee * Gallery (theatre), Gallery * Galleting * Gambrel * Gaper * Garbhagriha * Garderobe * Gargoyle * Garland bearers * Garret * Garrison (architecture), Garrison * Gatehouse * Gate tower * Gavaksha * Gavit * Gazebo * Geestharden house * Geison * Genius loci * Geodesic dome * Georgian architecture * Gibbs surround * Gingerbread house (architecture), Gingerbread * Girih * Girih tiles * Girt * Giyōfū architecture * Glass brick * Glass floor * Glass in green buildings * Glass mosaic * Glass mullion system * Glass tile * Glazed architectural terra-cotta * Glazing (window), Glazing * Gloriette * Gold leaf * Gonbad * Gongbei (Islamic architecture), Gongbei * Gothic architecture * Gothic architecture in Lithuania * Gothic architecture in modern Poland * List of Gothic brick buildings in Germany, Gothic brick buildings in Germany * List of Gothic brick buildings in the Netherlands, Gothic brick buildings in the Netherlands * List of Gothic architecture, Gothic buildings * Gothic cathedrals and churches * Gothic Revival architecture * Gothic Revival architecture in Canada * Gothic Revival architecture in Poland * List of Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival buildings * Gothic secular and domestic architecture * Goût grec * Grade beam * Graecostasis * Granary * Grands Projets of François Mitterrand * Great chamber * Great hall * Great house * Great Rebuilding * Great room * Great Seljuk architecture * Greek Baths * Greek Revival architecture * Green building * Gridshell * Grille (architecture) * Grillwork * Groin vault * Grotesque (architecture), Grotesque * Grotto * Gründerzeit * Guard stone * Guard tower * Guastavino tile * Guerrilla architecture * Gulf house * Gutta * Gymnasium (ancient Greece), Gymnasium * Gynaeceum

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* Hachiman-zukuri * Hagioscope * Haiden (Shinto), Haiden * Hakka walled village * Half tower * Hall * Hall and parlor house * Hall church * Hall house * Hammerbeam roof * Han dynasty tomb architecture * Hanover school of architecture * Harappan architecture * Harling (wall finish), Harling * Hasht-behesht (architecture), Hasht-behesht * Hashti * Haubarg * Hausa architecture * Hawaiian architecture * Hay hood * Heiden (Shinto), Heiden * Heimatschutz * Heliopolis style * Heliotrope (building), Heliotrope * Hemadpanti architecture * Henry II style * Henry IV style * List of heritage houses in Sydney, Heritage houses in Sydney * Heritage structures in Chennai * Herma * Herodian architecture * Heroon * Herrerian style * Herzog & de Meuron * Hexafoil * Hexagonal window * Hidden roof * High-rise building * High-tech architecture * High Victorian Gothic * Hill castle * Hillfort * Hillforts in Scotland * Hillside castle * Hilltop castle * Hindu and Buddhist architectural heritage of Pakistan * Hindu architecture * Hindu temple architecture * Hip roof * Hippodrome * Hirairi * Hisashi (architecture), Hisashi * Historic house * Historicism (art), Historicism * History of architectural engineering * History of architecture * History of domes in South Asia * History of early and simple domes * History of early modern period domes * History of Italian Renaissance domes * History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes * History of modern period domes * History of the world's tallest buildings * History of urban planning * Hiyoshi-zukuri * Hoarding (castle), Hoarding * Hogan * Hokkien architecture * Hokora * Honden * Hood mould * Hórreo * Horreum * Horseshoe arch * Hosh (architecture), Hosh * Hostile architecture * Hôtel particulier * House * Housebarn * House-commune * House plan * Housing in Azerbaijan * Housing in China * Housing in Europe * Housing in Glasgow * Housing in Hong Kong * Housing in India * Housing in Japan * Housing in New Zealand * Housing in Pakistan * Housing in Portugal * Housing in Scotland * Housing in Senegal * Housing in the United Kingdom * Howz * Hoysala architecture * Huabiao * Hui-style architecture * Hunky punk * Hypaethral * Hyphen (architecture), Hyphen * Hypocaust * Hypostyle * Hypotrachelium

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* I-house * Iberian pre-Romanesque art and architecture * Ice house (building), Ice house * Icelandic turf house * Iconostasis * Ideal town * Illusionistic ceiling painting * Imbrex and tegula * Imperial castle * Imperial Crown Style * Imperial roof decoration * Imperial staircase * Impluvium * Impluvium (house) * Impost (architecture), Impost * Inca architecture * Indented corners (Thai architecture), Indented corners * Indian rock-cut architecture * Indian vernacular architecture * Indies Empire style * Indigenous architecture * Indo-Corinthian capital * Indo-Islamic architecture * Indo-Saracenic architecture * Industrial architecture * Infill wall * Inglenook * Insula (building) * Insula (Roman city) * Interactive architecture * Intercolumniation * Interior architecture * Intern architect * Intern Architect Program * International Gothic * International Style (architecture), International Style * International Union of Architects * Interstitial space (architecture), Interstitial space * Inverted arch * Inverted bell * Inverted pyramid (architecture), Inverted pyramid * Ionic order * Ipswich window * Iranian architecture * Irish round tower * Iron railing * Irori * Isabelline (architectural style), Isabelline * Isfahani style * Ishi-no-ma-zukuri * Islamic architecture * Islamic geometric patterns * Island castle * Italian Baroque architecture * Italian Gothic architecture * Italian modern and contemporary architecture * Italian Neoclassical architecture * Italianate architecture * Iwan * Izba

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* Jacal * Jack arch * Jacobean architecture * Jagati (temple), Jagati * Jali * Jamaican Georgian architecture * Jama masjid * Jamb * Jamb statue * Japan Institute of Architects * Japanese architecture * Japanese Buddhist architecture * Japanese pagoda * Japanese wall * Japanese-Western Eclectic Architecture * Javanese traditional house * Jeffersonian architecture * Jengki style * Jesmonite * Jettying * Jewish architecture * Jharokha * Joglo * Jugendstil * Jutaku

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* Kadamba architecture * Kagura-den * Kairō * Kalae house * Kalang house * Kalinga architecture * Kalybe (temple) * Karahafu * Karamon * Kasbah * Kasuga-zukuri * Kath kuni architecture * Katōmado * Katsuogi * Keep * Keystone (architecture), Keystone * Khmer architecture * Khorasani style * Khrushchyovka * Kibitsu-zukuri * Kinetic architecture * King post * Kit house * Kiva * Kliros * Knee (construction), Knee * Knee wall * Knotted column * Koil * Kokoshnik architecture * Komainu * Konak (residence), Konak * Korean architecture * Korean pagoda * Kraton (Indonesia), Kraton * Kremlin (fortification), Kremlin * Kucheh * Kura (storehouse), Kura * Kuruwa * Kyōzō

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* L-plan castle * Labrum (architecture), Labrum * Laconicum * Lally column * Lamolithic house * Lanai (architecture), Lanai * Lancet window * Landhuis * Landscape architect * Landscript * Lantern tower * Latina (architecture), Latina * Lattice tower * Latticework * Lesene * Leuit * Levantine Gothic * Liberty style * Library stack * Lierne (vault), Lierne * Lightwell * Lime plaster * Limes (Roman Empire), Limes * Linenfold * Lingnan architecture * Linhay * Linked house * Lintel * Listed building * Liwan * Lobby (room), Lobby * Loculus (architecture), Loculus * Log building * Log cabin * Log house * Loggia * Lombard architecture * Lombard band * London Festival of Architecture * Long barrow * Long gallery * Longhouse * Longhouses of the indigenous peoples of North America * Lookout (architecture), Lookout * Lopo house * Lorraine house * Louis period styles * Louis XIII style * Louis XIV style * Louis XV style * Louis XVI style * Louis Philippe style * Louver * Low-energy house * Low German house * Lowland castle * Low-rise building * Lublin Renaissance * Lucarne * Lunette * Lunette (fortification) * Luten arch

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* Maashaus * Machiya * Machicolation * Maenianum * Mahal (palace), Mahal * Mahoney tables * Main Hall (Japanese Buddhism), Main Hall * Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta (Brussels) * Malay house * Maltese Baroque architecture * Mamluk architecture * Mammisi * Mandaloun * Mandapa * Mannerism * Mannerist architecture and sculpture in Poland * Manor house * Mansard roof * Mansion * Mansionization * Manueline * Manufactured housing * Maqam (shrine), Maqam * Maqsurah * Mar del Plata style * Margent * Marine architecture * Marriage stone * Marsh castle * Martello tower * Martyrium (architecture), Martyrium * Māru-Gurjara architecture * Mas (Provençal farmhouse) * Mascaron (architecture), Mascaron * Mashrabiya * Masia * Massing * Mastaba * Master of Architecture * Materiality (architecture), Materiality * Mathematical tile * Mathematics and architecture * Mathura lion capital * Matroneum * Mausoleum * Maya architecture * Mayan Revival architecture * Mead hall * Meander (art), Meander * Medallion (architecture), Medallion * Medici villas * Medieval architecture * Medieval fortification * Medieval Serbian architecture * Medieval stained glass * Medieval turf building in Cronberry * Mediterranean Revival architecture * Megalithic architectural elements * Megaron * Megastructure (planning concept), Megastructure * Meitei architecture * Membrane structure * Memorial gates and arches * Mendicant monasteries in Mexico * Merlon * Merovingian art and architecture * Meru tower * Mesoamerican architecture * Mesoamerican ballcourt * Mesoamerican pyramids * Metabolism (architecture), Metabolism * Metaphoric architecture * Metope * Metroon * Mezzanine * Miami Modern architecture * Microdistrict * Mid-century modern * Middle German house * Mihashira Torii * Mihrab * Minaret * Minimal Traditional * Minka * Minstrels' gallery * Mission Revival architecture * Mithraeum * Model maker * Modern architecture * Modern architecture in Athens * Modern Greek architecture * Moderne architecture * Modernisme * Modillion * Modular building * Mokoshi * Moldavian style * Molding (decorative), Molding * Mole (architecture), Mole * Mon (architecture), Mon * Monaco villas * Mondop * Monitor (architecture), Monitor * Monofora * Monolithic architecture * Monolithic church * Monolithic column * Monolithic dome * Mono-pitched roof * Monopteros * Monterey Colonial architecture * Monumental sculpture * Monumentalism * Moon gate * Moorish architecture * Moorish Revival architecture * Moorish Revival architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Morava architectural school * Moroccan architecture * Moroccan riad * Moroccan style * Morphology (architecture and engineering), Morphology * Mosaic * Mosque * Motte-and-bailey castle * List of motte-and-bailey castles, Motte-and-bailey castles * Mozarabic art and architecture * Mudéjar art, Mudéjar * Mudéjar architecture of Aragon * Mughal architecture * Muisca architecture * Mullion * Mullion wall * Multi-family residential * Multifoil arch * Muntin * Muqarnas * Muragala * Murder hole * Musalla * Museum architecture * Musgum mud huts * Myanmar architecture * Mycenaean Revival architecture

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* Nabataean architecture * Nagare-zukuri * Naiskos * Nakazonae * Namako wall * Nano House * Napoleon III style * Naqqar khana * Narthex * Naryshkin Baroque * National Aptitude Test in Architecture * National Park Service rustic * National Romantic style * Natural building * Nave * Nazi architecture * Neck ditch * Neo-Andean * Neo-Byzantine architecture in the Russian Empire * Neo-eclectic architecture * Neo-futurism * Neo-Grec * Neo-historism * Neo-Manueline * Neomodern * Neo-Mudéjar * Neo-Tiwanakan architecture * Neoclásico Isabelino * Neoclassical architecture * Neoclassical architecture in Belgium * Neoclassical architecture in Milan * Neoclassical architecture in Poland * Neoclassical architecture in Russia * Neoclassicism in France * Neolithic architecture * Neolithic long house * Neorion (ancient Greece), Neorion * New Classical architecture * New Formalism (architecture) * New Hague School (architecture), New Hague School * New Indies Style * New Khmer Architecture * New Mexico vernacular * New Objectivity (architecture), New Objectivity * New Spanish Baroque * New Urbanism * Newa architecture * Newar window * Newel * Niche (architecture), Niche * Nieuwe Zakelijkheid * Nightingale floor * Nijūmon * Nilachal architecture * Niōmon * Nipa hut * Architecture of the night, Nocturnal architecture * List of nonbuilding structure types, Nonbuilding structure types * Non-Referential Architecture * Nordic Classicism * Nordic megalith architecture * Norman architecture * List of Norman architecture in Cheshire, Norman architecture in Cheshire * Norman Revival architecture * North light (architecture), North light * North-Western Italian architecture * Novelty architecture * Nubian architecture * Nubian vault * Nuraghe * Nymphaeum

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* Ōbaku Zen architecture * Obelisk * Observation deck * Observation tower * Octagon house * Octagon on cube * Oculus (architecture), Oculus * Odeon (building), Odeon * Oecus * Oeil-de-boeuf * Ogee * Ogive * Okinawan architecture * Old Frisian farmhouse * Old Frisian longhouse * List of oldest buildings in Scotland, Oldest buildings in Scotland * One-day votive churches * Onigawara * Onion dome * Open building * Open plan * Openwork * Opisthodomos * Opus (architecture), Opus * Opus africanum * Opus albarium * Opus compositum * Opus craticum * Opus emplectum * Opus gallicum * Opus incertum * Opus isodomum * Opus latericium * Opus listatum * Opus mixtum * Opus quadratum * Opus regulatum * Opus reticulatum * Opus sectile * Opus signinum * Opus spicatum * Opus tessellatum * Opus testaceum * Opus vermiculatum * Opus vittatum * Orangery * Order (mouldings), Order * Organic architecture * Oriel window * Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal * Orillon * Ornamentalism (architecture), Ornamentalism * Orri * Orthostates * Ottoman architecture * Ottoman architecture in Egypt * Overhang (architecture), Overhang * Overlay architecture * Ovolo

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* Padmasana (shrine), Padmasana * Paduraksa * Pagoda * Pair-house * Pakistani architecture * Palace * Palaestra * Palas * Palazzo * Palazzo style architecture * Palisade church * Palladian architecture * Palladio Award * Pallava art and architecture * Palloza * Palmette * Pandyan art and architecture * Paned window (architecture), Paned window * Panelák * Panelling * Panjdari * Parabolic arch * Paraguayan architecture * Parametricism * Parapet * Parclose screen * Pargeting * Paris architecture of the Belle Époque * Parlour * Parthenon * Parthian style * Parti pris * Party wall * Parvise * Pataliputra capital * Patera (architecture), Patera * Patina * Patio * Patio home * Pattern (architecture), Pattern * Pattern book * Pattern language * Paulista School * Pavers (flooring), Pavement * Pavilion * Pavilion (exhibition) * Peak ornament * Pedestal * Pediment * Pedimental sculpture * Pedway * Peel tower * Pelmet * Pend * Pendant vault * Pendentive * Pendhapa * Performative architecture * Pergola * Peribolos * Peripteros * Peristasis (architecture), Peristasis * Peristyle * Perpend stone * Perron (architecture), Perron * Perserschutt * Persian column * Peruvian colonial architecture * Petrine Baroque * Phallic architecture * Phenomenology (architecture), Phenomenology * Phiale (building), Phiale * Philosophy of architecture * Piano nobile * Pier (architecture), Pier * Pierrotage * Pieve * Pila (architecture), Pila * Pilae stacks * Pilaster * Piloti * Pinnacle * Pit-house * Place-of-arms * Plafond * Plan (drawing), Plan * Plank house * Plantagenet style * Plateresque * Plattenbau * Plot plan * Pluteus (sculpture), Pluteus * Plyscraper * Podium * Pointed arch (architecture), Pointed arch * Polifora * Polish Cathedral style * Polished plaster * Polite architecture * Polychrome * Polychrome brickwork * Polygonal fort * Polygonal masonry * Pombaline style * Ponce Creole * Pont Street Dutch * Porch * Portal (architecture), Portal * Portcullis * Porte-cochère * Portego * Portico * Porticus * Porto School of Architecture * Portuguese Architecture * Portuguese colonial architecture * Portuguese Gothic architecture * Portuguese Romanesque architecture * Post (structural), Post * Post and lintel * Post-and-plank * Post church * Post in ground * Postconstructivism * Postern * Postmodern architecture * Poteaux-sur-sol * Poupou (architecture), Poupou * Prairie School * Pranala * Prang (architecture), Prang * Prasat (Thai architecture), Prasat * Prastara * Prefabricated building * Prefabricated home * Prefabs in the United Kingdom * Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps * Pre-Parsian style * Pre-Romanesque art and architecture * Pre-war architecture * The Primitive Hut, Primitive Hut * Pritzker Architecture Prize * Prodigy house * Professional requirements for architects * Project architect * Promenade architecturale * Promontory fort * Proportion (architecture), Proportion * Propylaea * Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings * Prostyle * Prow house * Prytaneion * Pseudodipteral * Pseudoperipteros * Pteron * Pucca housing * Pueblo Deco architecture * Pueblo Revival architecture * Pullman (architecture), Pullman * Pulpitum * Pulvino * Purism (Spanish architecture), Purism * Purlin * Puteal * Putlog hole * Puuc * PWA Moderne * Pyatthat * Pylon (architecture), Pylon * Pyramidion

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* Qa'a (room), Qa'a * Qadad * Qalat (fortress), Qalat * Quadrangle (architecture), Quadrangle * Quadrangular castle * Quadrant (architecture), Quadrant * Quadrifora * Quarry-faced stone * Quarter round * Quatrefoil * Quattrocento * Queen Anne Revival architecture in the United Kingdom * Queen Anne style architecture * Queen Anne style architecture in the United States * Queenslander (architecture), Queenslander * Quincha * Quoin * Qutb Shahi architecture

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* Rafter * Raised floor * Rampart (fortification), Rampart * Ranch-style house * Rangkiang * Raška architectural school * Ratha (architecture), Ratha * Rationalism (architecture), Rationalism * Raygun Gothic * Rayonnant * Realism (architectural history), Realism * Reconstruction (architecture), Reconstruction * Redoubt * Reduit * Reeding * Reflecting pool * Refuge castle * Regency architecture * Regia (architecture), Regia * List of regional characteristics of Romanesque churches, Regional characteristics of Romanesque churches * Reglet * Regulating Lines * Reinforced concrete column * Relief * Religious architecture in Belgrade * Religious architecture in Novi Sad * Renaissance architecture * Renaissance Revival architecture * Repoblación art and architecture * Dwelling, Residence * Residential architecture in Historic Cairo * Residential architecture in Ibiza * Residential architecture in Poland * Resort architecture * Respond * Responsive architecture * Retaining wall * Retractable roof * Retrofuturism * Retroquire * Rhenish helm * Revenue house * Revivalism (architecture), Revivalism * Revolving door * RIBA Competitions * RIBA Journal * Ribat * Rib vault * Richardsonian Romanesque * Ridge castle * Ridge-post framing * Ridge turret * Rim joist * Rinceau * Ringfort * Riwaq (arcade), Riwaq * Rocca (fortification), Rocca * Rock castle * Rock-cut architecture * Rock-cut architecture of Cappadocia * Rococo architecture in Portugal * Rococo in Spain * Roman amphitheatre * Roman aqueduct * Roman architectural revolution * Roman brick * Roman bridge * List of Roman canals, Roman canal * List of Roman cisterns, Roman cistern * Roman concrete * List of Roman dams and reservoirs, Roman dams and reservoirs * List of Roman domes, Roman domes * Roman shower * Roman temple * Roman theatre (structure), Roman theatre * Roman villa * Romanesque architecture * Romanesque architecture in Poland * Romanesque architecture in Sardinia * Romanesque architecture in Spain * List of Romanesque buildings, Romanesque buildings * Romanesque churches in Madrid * Romanesque Revival architecture in the United Kingdom * Romanesque secular and domestic architecture * Romanian architecture * Romano-Gothic * Rōmon * Rondavel * Rondocubism * Roof comb * Roof garden * Roof lantern * Roofline * Roof pitch * Roof window * Rood screen * Room * Rorbu * Rosette (design), Rosette * Rose window * Roshandan * Rostra * Rostral column * Rota (architecture), Rota * Rotunda (architecture), Rotunda * Round barn * Roundel (fortification), Roundel * Roundhouse (dwelling), Roundhouse * Round-tower church * Royal Gold Medal * Royal Institute of British Architects * Ruin value * Ruins * Rumah Gadang * Rumah limas * Rumah ulu * Rumoh Aceh * Rundbogenstil * Russian architecture * Russian church architecture * Russian cultural heritage register * Russian neoclassical revival * Russian Revival architecture * Rustication (architecture), Rustication

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* Sacellum * Sacral architecture * Saddle roof * Saddleback roof * Sahn * Sail shade * Saka guru * Sakuji-bugyō * Sala (Thai architecture), Sala * Sally port * Saltbox house * Sand Hills cottage architecture * Sandō * Sanmon * Sarasota School of Architecture * Sarnath capital * Sasak architecture * Sasanian architecture * Sash window * Scaenae frons * Scagliola * Scamilli impares * Scarsella (architecture), Scarsella * Schinkel school * Scissors truss * Sconce (fortification), Sconce * Scottish baronial architecture * Scottish castles * Scottish Vernacular * Screened porch * Scroll (art), Scroll * Seattle box * Sebil (fountain), Sebil * Second Empire architecture in Europe * Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada * Secondary suite * Secret passage * Secular building * Sedilia * Segmental arch * Self-cleaning floor * Self-cleaning glass * Semi-basement * Semi-detached * Semi-dome * Serbian wooden churches * Serbo-Byzantine architecture * Serbo-Byzantine Revival * Serpentine shape * Setback (architecture), Setback * Setchūyō * Set-off (architecture), Set-off * Sexpartite vault * Shabaka (window), Shabaka * Shabestan * Shah Jahan period architecture * Shallow foundation * Shanxi architecture * Shear wall * Shed style * Shell keep * Shibi (roof tile), Shibi * Shinbashira * Shinden-zukuri * Shingle style architecture * Shinmei-zukuri * Shinto architecture * Shinto shrine * Shipping container architecture * Shipping container clinic * Shitomi * Shoebox style * Shoin-zukuri * Shōji * Shophouse * Shōrō * Shotgun house * Siberian Baroque * Sicilian Baroque * Side-deck * Side passage plan architecture * Sikh architecture * Silesian architecture * Sill plate * Sima (architecture), Sima * Single- and double-pen architecture * Single-family detached home * Sino-Portuguese architecture * Site plan * Site-specific architecture * Skylight * Skyscraper Index * Skyway * Slab hut * Sleeping porch * Slenderness ratio * Slipcover (architecture), Slipcover * Sliver building * Slow architecture * Smoke hole * Snout house * Sobrado (architecture), Sobrado * Sociology of architecture * Socle (architecture), Socle * Soffit * Soft Portuguese style * Solar (room), Solar * Solar architecture * Solar chimney * Solarized architectural glass * Solomonic column * Somali architecture * Sōmon * Sondergotik * Sopo (structure), Sopo * Sōrin * Sotoportego * Southern Colonial style in California * Southern French Gothic * Spa architecture * Space (architecture), Space * Space architecture * Spatiality (architecture), Spatiality * Spandrel * Spanish architecture * Spanish Baroque architecture * Spanish Colonial architecture * Spanish Colonial Revival architecture * Spanish Gothic architecture * Spanish Romanesque * Sphaeristerium * Spire * Spire light * Spite house * Split-level home * Springer (architecture), Springer * Spolia * Spur (architecture), Spur * Spur castle * Squinch * Stabilization (architecture), Stabilization * Staddle stones * Stained glass * Stair riser * Staircase tower * Stalinist architecture * Stanchion * Starchitect * State architect * State room * Stavanger Renaissance * Stave church * Steeple * Step pyramid * Stepwell * Stepped gable * Stick style * Stile Umbertino * Stillicidium * Still room * Stilt house * Stilt tower * Stilts (architecture), Stilts * Stoa * Stone ender * Stoop (architecture), Stoop * Storybook house * Strap footing * Strapwork * Streamline Moderne * Stripped Classicism * Structuralism (architecture), Structuralism * Structures built by animals * Studio apartment * Stupa * Style Sapin * Stylobate * Sudatorium * Sundanese traditional house * Sudano-Sahelian architecture * Sukanasa * Sukiya-zukuri * Sumbanese traditional house * Summer architecture * Sumiyoshi-zukuri * Sunburst * Sunken courtyard * Sunroom * Suntop Homes * Superposed order * Suprematism * Surau * Suspensura * Sustainable architecture * Svan towers * Swahili architecture * Świdermajer * Swiss Chalet Revival architecture * Swiss chalet style * Symbolism of domes * Synagogue architecture

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* Taberna * Tablinum * Tadelakt * Taenia (architecture), Taenia * Tahōtō * Taisha-zukuri * Tajug * Talud-tablero * Tambo (Incan structure), Tambo * Tambour * Tas-de-charge * Tatar mosque * Technical drawing * Teito * Telamon * Temazcal * Temple * Templon * Tenaille * Tenement * Tenshu * Tensile structure * Tension member * Teocalli * Tepidarium * Term (architecture), Term * Terrace (building), Terrace * Terraced house * Terraced houses in Australia * Terraced houses in the United Kingdom * Terreplein * Territorial Style * Territorial Revival architecture * Tessellated roof * Tetraconch * Tetrapylon * Thai temple art and architecture * The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright * Thin-shell structure * Tholobate * Tholos (architecture), Tholos * Three hares * Tibetan Buddhist architecture * Tidewater architecture * Tie (cavity wall), Tie * Tiltyard * Timber framing * Timber roof truss * Timeline of architectural styles * Timeline of architectural styles 1750–1900 * Timeline of Art Nouveau * Timeline of Italian architecture * Tin ceiling * Tiny house movement * Tokyō * Toll castle * Tongkonan * Tong lau * Tulou * Torana * Torii * Torp (architecture), Torp * Totalitarian architecture * Tourelle (architecture), Tourelle * Tower * Tower blocks in Great Britain * Tower castle * Tower house * Tower houses in Britain and Ireland * Tower houses in the Balkans * Townhouse * Townhouse (Great Britain) * Tracery * Trachelium (architecture), Trachelium * Traditional architecture of Enggano * Traditional Chinese house architecture * Traditional Korean roof construction * Traditional Persian residential architecture * Traditional Thai house * Traditionalist School (architecture), Traditionalist School * Transept * Transom (architecture), Transom * Transverse rib * Trefoil * Trefoil arch * Trellis (architecture), Trellis * Triadic pyramid * Tribune (architecture), Tribune * Triclinium * Trifora * Triforium * Triglyph * Trilithon * Trinitarian steeple * Triodetic dome * Triquetra * Triumphal arch * Trombe wall * Trompe-l'œil * Trophy of arms * Trullo * Trumeau (architecture), Trumeau * Truss * Truth to materials * Truth window * Tsumairi * The Leeds Look * Tudor architecture * Tudor Revival architecture * Türbe * Turret (architecture), Turret * Twig work * Two-up two-down * Tympanum (architecture), Tympanum

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* Ubaid house * Ukrainian architecture * Ukrainian Baroque * Ultimate bungalow * Uma (Gajo house), Uma * Umayyad architecture * Undercroft * Unfinished building * Universal design * Upper Lusatian house * Upright and Wing * Urban canyon * Urban castle * Urban design * Urban planning * Urban planning in ancient Egypt * Urban planning in Australia * Urban planning in communist countries * Urban planning in Nazi Germany * Usonia * Uthland-Frisian house

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* Vainakh tower architecture * Valencian Art Nouveau * Valencian Gothic * Vancouver Special * Vancouverism * Vanderbilt houses * Vastu shastra * Vatadage * Vault (architecture), Vault * Velarium * Vellar cupola * Venereum * Venetian door * Venetian Gothic architecture * Venetian Renaissance architecture * Venetian window * Venice Biennale of Architecture * Ventilation (architecture), Ventilation * Ventilation shaft * Veranda * Verify in field * Vernacular architecture * Vernacular architecture in Norway * Vernacular architecture of the Carpathians * Vernacular residential architecture of Western Sichuan * Vesara * Vestibule (architecture), Vestibule * Viaduct * Victorian architecture * Victorian house * Victorian restoration * Victory column * Viga (architecture), Viga * Vihāra * Vijayanagara architecture * Viking ring fortress * Villa * Villa rustica * Vimana (architectural feature), Vimana * Vineyard style * Visigothic art and architecture * Vitruvian module * Vitruvian opening * Vitruvian scroll * Volume and displacement indicators for an architectural structure * Volute * Vomitorium * Votive column * Voussoir

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* Wada (house), Wada * Waldlerhaus * Wall * Wall dormer * Wall footing * Walipini * Wantilan * Wat * Watchtower * Water castle * Watergate (architecture), Watergate * Waterleaf (architecture), Waterleaf * Water table (architecture), Water table * Water tower * Wattle and daub * Wayō * Wealden hall house * Weavers' cottage * Weavers' windows * Wedding-cake style * Weep (architecture), Weep * Well house * Welsh Tower houses * Wessobrunner School * Western Chalukya architecture * Western false front architecture * Westwork * Wetu * Wharenui * Whispering gallery * Widow's walk * Wilhelminism * Wind brace * Windcatcher * Window * Window blind * Window sill * Wing (building), Wing * Wing wall * Witch window * Witches' stones * Wooden synagogues in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth * World Architecture Festival * World Architecture Survey * WPA Rustic * Wunderlich (panels), Wunderlich

X

* Xylotechnigraphy * Xystum * Xystus (architectural term), Xystus

Y

* Yagura (tower), Yagura * Yakhchāl * Yalı * Yaodong * Yeseria * Yett

Z

* Z-plan castle * Zakopane Style * Zarih * Zellige * Zenshūyō * Zero carbon housing * Zero-energy building * Zingel (fortification), Zingel * Zoomorphic architecture * Zoophorus * Zvonnitsa * Zwinger

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