American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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An Illustrated Glossary Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings. WALLS : ARCHES AN ARCH IS A SELF - SUPPORTING ELEMENT THAT IS usually built of masonry . It consists of a number of units spanning an opening in which the downward thrust of each ...
An Illustrated Glossary Herbert Gottfried, Jan Jennings. WALLS : ARCHES AN ARCH IS A SELF - SUPPORTING ELEMENT THAT IS usually built of masonry . It consists of a number of units spanning an opening in which the downward thrust of each ...
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... arches or arcades in the design . For example , a corner block might employ an arch that spanned each vertical bay on ground level yet broke down into paired windows on the second floor . The paired windows might be headed by a single arch ...
... arches or arcades in the design . For example , a corner block might employ an arch that spanned each vertical bay on ground level yet broke down into paired windows on the second floor . The paired windows might be headed by a single arch ...
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... arch win- dows and a low , wide , arched entrance . Emphasis was on surface texture and the rhythm of the arches or arcades . Other Romanesque elements could include a corner entrance marked by a single thick granite column from which an ...
... arch win- dows and a low , wide , arched entrance . Emphasis was on surface texture and the rhythm of the arches or arcades . Other Romanesque elements could include a corner entrance marked by a single thick granite column from which an ...
Contents
Cladding Materials | 9 |
Roofs | 36 |
Towers Steeples Turrets | 56 |
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