Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Landscape Architecture

Important Terminology of Landscape Architecture

Aedicule-

An opening ( door, window or shrine etc.) framed by columns or pilasters and topped by an entablature and pediment. Such an opening is said to be aediculated. 
 

Bailey-

The walls surrounding a keep or a courtyard enclosed by fortified walls.
Baroque-
Early period of Georgian Architecture, know as the age of elegance. Blenheim palace is the major example of grand, highly decorative style. 

Bartisan-

A bartisan (or bartizan) is an unroofed turret projecting from the top of a castle wall. (A bartisan which is roofed is generally known as a tourelle.)

Oriel-

A bay window that projects from an upper storey.

Belvedere-

A turret, lantern or room built at high level to provide a view.

Breastsummer-

 A large lintel spanning a wide opening (supporting brickwork masonry) often over a shop or bay window, formally of timber now concrete or steel.

Cant-

An external angle of a building that is not a right angle e.g. a cant bay window

Catacomb-

An underground room or place used for storing the dead.

Chandry-

A place used for storing candles.
Chippendale-  
A Georgian furniture Designer.

Cob Wall-

A wall constructed from layers of pressed mud, gravel and straw.

Florentine Arch-

An arch where the intrudes and exturdes are not parallel.

Mastaba-

Mastaba previously built with floor and wall lining of limestone later totally built of limestone.
 

Serdab- 

An enclosed room with a slot the head of a statue of deceased contained within.

Stele-

An upright stone slab in the offering room with inscription of the name of deseased.
- Pyramids evolved from Mastaba- step pyramid of limestone from Tura, also granite. 











































































































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