Architecture Vocabulary Flashcards
Pastiche
To imitate the style of another artist or work.
Bricolage
The construction or creation from a diverse range of available things.
Poché
The walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black.
Charette
A final, intensive effort to finish a project, especially an architectural design project, before a deadline.
Genius Loci
The prevailing character or atmosphere of a place.
Regionalism
The theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation.
Enfilade
A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other.
Diagrammatic
Of or in the form of a diagram.
Vernacular
Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings.
