Saturday, September 6, 2008

ARCHITECTURAL DICTIONARY - V

Vault - Arched ceiling or roof, usually in brick or stone.
Veneer - To overlay or face with another superior wood.
Ventilate - To admit fresh air, air for circulation.
Vernacular - In architecture, of traditional and indigenous historical style.
Villa - A country house.
Village - Any small assemblage of houses less than a town.
Vista - A view or prospect through or as through an avenue, trees that form an avenue.
Volumetric - Relating to the three dimensional qualities of a space.
Volute - Spiral scroll carved on the capital of an Ionic column.
Voussoir - Wedge-shaped block, one of a number used to form an arch.


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