Architectural terminology

thumb|upright=1.3|Skyline of Lower Manhattan in 2021. The term "Skyline" was first used for [[New York City in 1896.]] A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon. It can be created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land.

drawing to scale, showing from above, the relationships between walls and spaces of a structure

environment created by humans

thumb|Openwork basket, English Bow porcelain, c. 1754–1755 right|thumb|alt=A gold bracelet with a pattern and writing created by making holes in the bracelet|Ancient Roman gold bracelet from the Hoxne Hoard. JULIANE is spelled out in [[opus interrasile openwork.]] thumb|Intricate jalis from the [[Sidi Saiyyed mosque in Ahmedabad, India. From the inside]]

Ekistics is a futurist conceptual framework for the maximal development of human settlements. Coined in 1942 by Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, ekistics was developed in response to rapid modern urbanization. The framework identifies five key elements of human settlement - nature, humans, society, shells (buildings), and networks - as well as a scale of 'ekistics units', delineated roughly in orders of magnitude of population. The framework's goal is to maximize all five elements for a given settlement at each of ekistics unit. Doxiadis advocated for the framework to be the foundation of a fi

principle of architectural theory that describes the relationships between elements of a design

the distance from the center of the arc to the center of its base

real estate whose owner won't give up rights

thumb|upright|The work of a Daemokjang Daemokjang (; alternatively Daimokjang) is a style of traditional Korean wooden architecture and a term for the woodworking artisans who create it. The word literally means carpenter. Mokjang means woodworker, and are divided into Somokjang (lit. lesser woodworker) and Daemokjang (lit. greater woodworker). Somokjang who make small wooden objects are joiners; Daemokjang who builds wooden buildings are carpenters. Daemokjang covers the entire field of woodworking and the entire construction process.

in soil mechanics

Type of building wing

thumb|Cavetto moulding thumb| Illustrations of various examples of ancient Egyptian cornices, all of them having cavettos

thumb|A walipini in Utah thumb|The interior of a walipini A walipini is an earth-sheltered cold frame. It derives its name from the Aymaran languages. It is similar in concept to the pineapple pit that was used, as the name implies, to cultivate pineapple and other exotic fruits in Victorian era Britain and in the cold plains of pre-revolution Russia.

structure that uses tactic of hiding aesthetically unpleasing equipment in residential areas

feature of Romanesque Architecture