Sentence examples for architectural terminology from inspiring English sources
An excellent new guide to architectural terminology is Owen Hopkins's "Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon" (Laurence King Publishing, 2012), which will get you nicely through every block in New York.
YOU can be an insufferable know-it-all with architectural terminology: "Oh, that's not a cyma recta, it's a cyma reversa".
After dinner — during which our correspondent was not permitted to sit at a table, and stared longingly at a gaping seat held for the actor Edward Norton's fiancée, who had stayed home sick — Mr. Norton schooled us on architectural terminology.
Harvey Wiley Corbett was tapped in part for "his ability to translate architectural terminology into ripe and impressive statements that could be dangled before the press and potential tenants," Daniel Okrent wrote in "Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center" (Viking, 2003).
With this new form of media the client doesn't have to know anything about architectural graphics or terminology (floor plans, sections, elevations & construction documents) to have a clear understanding of what the end result will look like.
Architectural description language.
Architectural illustration.
The terminology is revealing.
Terminology is everything.
