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.
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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
Geometric relates to shapes and forms which resemble or employ the simple rectilinear or curvilinear elements of geometry.
Geometric Paper Sculptures // Daryl J Ashton
An archetype is an original model or pattern on which all things of the same kind are copied or based.
The Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Metaphor is an object, activity, or idea used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them.
Urban Jungle // Giraffe Childcare Centre, Paris
A modular coordination means correlating the dimensions of a structure and the unit sizes of its components, usually with the aid of a planning grid based on a 4-inch or 100 mm cubical module.
grid // modular coordination
Reproductive imagination is the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images.
"Micro heart thinking as brain" // Skount Blog
Repetition is the act or process of repeating formal elements or motifs in a design.
repetition in architecture
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