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French to English Architecture Translation Glossary

French term English translation
façades courantes plain facades
façades de conception VEC (verre extérieur collé), structural silicone glazing
fabrique "fabrique" don´t translate it
face d'une gaine side of a duct
faire charrette to work flat out
faire tenir maintaining/keeping things in place
fait partie des villages-rue is one of those one-street villages
faux appareillage imitation bond
fût shaft
fenêtre à coussiège window seat
fenêtre-bandeau horizontal window/ribbon window
feuillure groove / rebate
feutré cozy
fleuron de l’imaginaire magnum opus/tour de force/showpiece of the imagination
fleurs en crochet crocket flowers
fonction symbolique symbolic function
fonds baptismaux (baptismal) font
formes « auto-porteuses ». freestanding structures/constructions/shapes
gaine d'ascenseur Lift/elevator shaft
galeries en encorbellement overhanging gallery
génie du lieu genius loci (or spirit of the place)
glissement transition
grand paysage landscape
grand/petit appareil large/small stonework
grande porte monumentale à avant-porte the large doorway in the foregate
grandes machines célibataires great / large bachelor machines
Grands Travaux large-scale construction works/projects
grès flammé glazed stoneware (in this situation)
grès roussard red / purple sandstone
grille des toilettes grating
grille orthonormée orthonormal grid
guérite gatehouse / gate cabin
Habilitation à Maîtrise d’Oeuvre en son Nom Propre HMONP [personal qalification as an architect project manager ]
Habillage (stair) covering
hôtel residence/hôtel
heart with wings folded as if in prayer coeur à deux ailes et en prière
Entered by: Yolanda Broad
histoire sourde du lieu “the deaf (symbolized) history of the site” (A place of remembrance and cultural history)
hors oeuvre projecting (elements)
hour parapet
Entered by: Angie Taylor
humus végétal vegetable humus
Entered by: Lara Barnett
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