Architecture Dictionary

a medium-hard metamorphic rock of crystallized limestone

unit blocks of stone, brick, or concrete used for construction

the arrangement of forms of a building

By the middle of the 20th century, architects trained in the tenets of Modernism began to experiment…

It’s difficult to imagine what the skyline of Chicago might look like without architect Ludwig Mies van…

the middle part of a church, typically where the congregation gathers

Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed some of the Chicago area’s most picturesque green…

a large triangular form on top of a series of columns

a vertical section of the wall, between two window openings

a small vertical structure that is on top of a Gothic buttress or pier

A reaction to Modernism Postmodernism began as a critique. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Modernism…

The Prairie style emerged in Chicago around 1900 from the work of a group of young architects, including…