PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Quatrefoil -
an ornamental design of four lobes or leaves as used in architectural tracery, resembling a flower or four-leaf clover.
Frieze - a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.
Rustication - to build or face with usually rough-surfaced masonry blocks having beveled or rebated edges producing pronounced joints
Gable - is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.
Doric
Column - One of the three main styles of Greek architecture (the others are Corinthian and Ionic). The Doric column is heavy and fluted; its capital is plain
Dentils - is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice.
Voussiors - a wedge-shaped or tapered stone used to construct an arch.
Transom - a window set above the transom of a door or larger window; a fanlight
Half Timber - method of building in which external and internal walls are constructed of timber frames and the spaces between the structural members are filled with such materials as brick, plaster, or wattle and daub.
Ionic Columns - The Ionic capital is characterized by the use of volutes. The Ionic columns normally stand on a base which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform; the cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart.
Dormer - a vertical window that projects from a sloping roof and usually illuminates a bedroom. The term derives from the Latin dormitorium, “sleeping room.” Dormers are set either on the face of the wall or high upon the roof, and their roofs may be gabled, hipped, flat, or with one slope.
Corinthian - is the most ornate of the orders, characterized by slender fluted columns and elaborate capitals decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls. There are many variations.
Egg and dart - and-tongue is an ornamental device often carved in wood, stone, or plaster quarter-round ovolo mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow, anchor or dart.
Quoins - both the external angle or corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that angle. These cornerstones are both decorative and structural, since they usually differ in jointing, colour, texture, or size from the masonry of the adjoining walls
Hipped roof - is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus a hipped roof house has no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.
Mansard Roof - A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper.
Curtain wall - is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, utilized to keep the weather out and the occupants in.
