Prehistory

• abstraction
• henge
• idealization
• megalith
• monolith
• permanent architecture
• post and lintel
• prehistoric
• realism
• visual utility

Old World Cultures

• corbel
• ephemeral
• mudbrick
• mudhif
• rammed earth
• reed construction
• votive figure
• wattle and daub
• ziggurat

India: Hinduism

• garbhagriha
• mandala
• rock-cut
• shikhara
• tribhanga

Southern & Southeast Asia: Buddhism

• Asoka column
• axis mundi
• stupa
• torana

China

• chi wen
• dougong
• feng shui
• hutong
• pagoda
• qi
• siheyuan
• wenshou
• Yingzao Fashi

Japan

• machiya
• minka
• nōka
• shoji
• tatami
• tokonoma
• vernacular

Egypt

• ashlar masonry
• bearing wall
• benben
• canon/canonical
• clerestory
• corbelling
• ephemeral
• hypostyle hall
• ka
• mastaba
• obelisk
• pylon
• relief (sculpture); raised relief & sunken relief
• serdab
• stele
• step pyramid
• visual utility