Architecture Flashcards
A style design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s, marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production
Art Deco
The mix of cement,water, sand and gravel that hardens into a super strong -strong building material.
Concrete
Marked by or capable of arousing controversy
Controversial
Refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
Elegant
Something that is really unpleasant to look at
An eyesore
The face or front of a building
Facade
Lowest support of a structure
Foundation
Designed for a capable of a particular function or use
Functional
Transparent material
Glass
Describes things you do that are contemporary or current
Modernism
A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
Storey
A multi -storey car park
A structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
A porch
A very tall building
A skyscraper
Abandoned home, person
Derelict
Something used to exist, but now gone
Defunct
A defunct Indian tribe
Massive and fabulous house
Estate
Condition
State
The wide part of a river where it nears the sea, fresh and salt water mix
Estuary
Fall or sink heavily
To slump
He slumped onto the couch
A district of a city marked by poverty and inferior of living conditions
Slum
Opposite of promote
To demote
Something completely destroyed
Demolish
The protection of something
Preservation
The overlap upper surface of a covered space
Ceiling
