Architectural glass is glass that is used as a building material. It is most typically used as transparent glazing material…
An arcade is a succession of arches, each counter-thrusting the next, supported by columns, piers, or a covered walkway enclosed…
Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in…
An apron is a raised section of ornamental stonework below a window ledge, stone tablet, or monument.
An antefix (from Latin antefigere, to fasten before) is a vertical block which terminates the covering tiles of a tiled…
Ante-choir, the term given to the space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood…
An Antae Temple, also a Distyle in antis Temple, is a special name given to a type of ancient Greek…
An Anta capital is the crowning portion of an anta, the front edge of a supporting wall in Greek temple…
An anta (pl. antæ) (Latin, possibly from ante, 'before' or 'in front of'), or sometimes parastade is an architectural term…
Annualized geo-solar (AGS) enables passive solar heating in even cold, foggy north temperate areas. It uses the ground under or…