Learn how to read buildings! This app helps users to look at and appreciate architecture as never before. Identify features, elements and characteristics of buildings that give clues as to their history, design and purpose.
Learn the terminology and understand the function of the masonry, arches, vaults, columns, domes, spires, stairs, spaces, windows, roofs and structures before you.
An offline visual reference guide for well over one hundred architectural elements. Glossary detailing the major architectural genres; what distinguishes them, how to recognise them and how they came about. Classical, Gothic, Tudor, Baroque, Byzantine, Georgian, Renaissance, Romanesque, Rococo, Postmodern, Neoclassical, Bauhaus and more.
Detailed information on architectural elements including:
Abat-son, Abutment, Anchor plate, Apse, Arris, Atrium, Baluster, Barrel vault, Blind arcade, Blind arch, Bochka roof, Broach spire, Chhatri, Corbel, Crown steeple, Cupola, Dentil, Dormer window, Dutch Gable, Fan vault, Flying buttress, Groin vault, Guard stone, Gusset plates, Hood mould, Horseshoe arch, Hypostyle, Irimoya roof, Jali, King post, Kokoshnik, Lancet window, Loggia, Long gallery, Mansard roof, Mullion, Ogee, Onion dome, Parapet, Pediment, Pendant vault, Pelmet, Quadrangle, Quoin, Rib vault, Rood screen, Roof lantern, Spandrel, Squinch, Tracery, Tribune, Triforium, Tudor arch, Westwork, Widows walk, Witches stones and many many more!
Includes links for further reading and information from wikipedia and other online resources.