The Arts - Architecture Flashcards by Maxime DEJARDIN

un architecte

an architect

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un plan

dessiner, créer

a plan = a design

to design

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les fondations

the foundations

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la charpente

the framework

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une poutre

a beam

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la pierre

stone (attention peut vouloir dire noyau du fruit)

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la brique

brick

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le mortier

mortar

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le ciment

cement

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le béton

concrete (attention, si adjectif = veut dire concret)

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un mur, une muraille
une ville fortifiée
murer (porte, fenêtre)

a wall
a walled city
to wall up

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un fronton

a pediment

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une frise

a frieze

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un pilier

a pillar

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une colonne

a column

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une tour

a tower

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un parvis

a forecourt

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une cour (d’immeuble)

a courtyard

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une pierre angulaire

a corner stone

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une cour intérieure (2)

an inner courtyard

an interior courtyard

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on peut s’appuyer sur elle

She’s a pillar of strentgh

figuré : c’est un pilier de force

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des arcades

an arcaded colonade

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la Grande Muraille de Chine

the Great Wall of China

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un pont-levis

a drawbridge

1- les remparts | 2- le chemin de ronde

the battlements

une meurtrière

an arrow slit | une ouverture pour les flèches

le donjon

the keep

un cachot

a dungeon (faux-ami)

une ruine

a ruin

un vestige

``` a relic (attention, cela peut vouloir dire aussi une relique = Ce qui reste du corps des saints, des personnages sacrés, ou objet leur ayant appartenu, et qui fait l'objet d'un culte) ```

une cloche | un clocher

a bell | a bell tower

un clocher, un beffroi

a belfry

un dôme

a dome

une flêche

a spire

la façade

the front (faux-ami)

le porche

the porch

un portail

a portal

un cloître

a cloister

un cintre

a curve

une voûte, une arche, un arc

an arch

une voûte la voûte (ouvrage) en voûte

a vault vaulting vaulted

la nef

the nave

un vitrail

a stained-glass windw

une rosace

a rose window

le sanctuaire

the sanctuary

le choeur (2)

the choir | the chancel

un enfant de choeur

an altar boy

la voûte étoilée

the starry vault

ancien, antique (style architectural)

Ancient (attention MAJ)

roman (style architectural)

Norman = Romanesque (attention MAJ)

gothique (style architectural)

Gothic (attention MAJ)

baroque (style architectural)

Baroque (attention MAJ)

renaissance (style architectural)

Renaissance (attention MAJ)

romantique (style architectural)

Romantic (attention MAJ)

victorien (style architectural)

Victorian (attention MAJ)

fin XIXè (style architectural)

redbrick

le gothique flamboyant

Flamboyant Gothic

une université fondée au XIXè siècle

a redbrick university

un manoir victorien

a Victorian mansion