Sentence examples for architectural term from inspiring English sources

Here, diner is an architectural term, not a culinary one.

It's one instance where the architectural term "cantilever" applies to an automobile.

"Colonial" is not the only ubiquitously misused architectural term spouted ignorantly by real estate agents around the country.

His Notre Dame chapter, for example, quickly goes from illuminating to mind-numbing, for he seems never to have met a Gothic architectural term he didn't like.

The design was not as ornate as Starkweather & Gibbs's, but the building does have elaborate quoins, or corner blocks, articulated with intricate vermiculation (the architectural term for a wormlike pattern in a stone surface).

It is wrapped in a grid of diamonds – a diagrid, to use an architectural term – which evokes the ultra-light geodesic structures beloved of the technophile American engineer Buckminster Fuller but realised here in archaising masonry.

He coined several literary and architectural terms and inspired a school of neo-Gothic architecture.

Discusses the entire place in classic architectural terms.

1948- "I think of novels in architectural terms.

And both shows suggest that Mies's mature work recapitulated this autobiography in architectural terms.

In any event, although he might confuse his architectural terms, he gets the important stuff right.