French window, despite its name, is a heavily fenestrated double door, usually found in domestic buildings and opening on to a garden.
A stressed-skin panel is a structural panel consisting of plywood facings glued to timber stringers. It is normally used as floor, roof, or wall member subject to bending. The plywood facings and stringers act as a series of I-beams where the plywood acts as a resistant of all the bending stresses. A cross bracing may be positioned to support the edges of the skin and to help distribute concentrated loads.
Tectonics is the science or art of shaping, ornamenting, or assembling materials in construction.
Stina Holm Jensen | Tectonic Architectural Studio
Trompe l’oeil is a drawing or painting in which objects are rendered in extremely fine detail to emphasize the illusion of tactile and spatial qualities.
Falsework is the temporary framework for supporting a structure under construction that is not yet capable of supporting itself.
An anthemion is a stylized decorative form based on honeysuckle, the lobes of which point inwards (unlike a palmette).
Allendale Theatre in Buffalo, NY
Design process is a focused activity aimed at formulating a plan for altering an existing situation into a more favoured one.
1  initiation: identifying a problem…
2  preparation: collecting and analysing relevant information…
→ conceive to form an idea or conception in the mind. Continue Reading…
Eclectic refers to works of architecture and the decorative arts that derive from a wide range of historic styles, the style in each instance being chosen for its deemed appropriateness to local tradition, geography, or culture.
eclectic style // Madrid
Gingerbread refers to a heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented, specifically in architecture.
gingerbread house // Russia
A feasibility study is a detailed investigation and analysis conducted to determine the financial, technical, or other advisability of a proposed construction project.
 feasibility study // Transition Works
Juxtaposition is the state or position of being placed close together or side by side, so as to permit comparison or contrast.
Frank Gehry // Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic
A diagram is a drawing, not necessarily representational, that outlines, explains, or clarifies the arrangement and relations of the parts of a whole.
Stan Allen // Field Conditions Diagrams, 1985
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