Architecture

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10 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Architecture.

• Architectural ensemble — Recognize buildings, structures, monumental art, designed landscape, and setting as one coherent spatial composition whose interrelations carry architectural or heritage significance beyond the inventory of its parts.
• Architectural Tectonics — The architectural poetics of construction in which material, joint, support, span, enclosure, and making become legible and culturally expressive in a building's form.
• Bolection — A projecting moulding that bridges surfaces at different levels around a panel, opening or fireplace and can retain a floating panel while allowing seasonal movement.
• Clock Gable — A Dutch-derived facade-top type recognized by an integrated bell-like curved silhouette—not by a literal clock—whose profile supports architectural classification, comparison, and conservation across changing ornament.
• Critical Reconstruction — A Berlin-centered urban-design doctrine that recovers historically legible street, block, parcel, and building-line morphology as a framework for contemporary infill, mediating continuity with the inherited city without requiring literal facsimile restoration.
• Hypostyle — An architectural hall or plan in which a roof is carried by a dense field of columns, often with a taller central zone admitting clerestory light.
• Interlaced Arch — An architectural ornamental system in which overlapping arch profiles spring from alternating supports so their archivolts weave over, under, or through one another and generate a secondary rhythmic lattice, usually independent of load-bearing openings.
• Performative Architecture — Generate and select architectural form through an explicit loop in which declared building-performance criteria, simulation or measurement, and design revision shape the proposal rather than merely checking a finished form.
• Stilted Arch — Raise an arch's curved head above its impost on two vertical continuations of the intrados, separating stilt height from curve shape so crown level and opening proportion can be controlled without mistaking taller jambs for stilting.
• Visionary architecture — Architectural design developed primarily as speculative drawings, collages or models whose idealistic or technically impractical proposals explore possibilities beyond immediate construction.