ARCHITECTURAL DICTIONARY | V

Use this comprehensive, illustrated, easy-to-understand dictionary to find the meanings of terms related to Architecture, Buildings and Construction.

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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