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Architectural elements

Scope note

Forms, structural or decorative, developed originally or primarily as components of architecture, often adapted to other habitable spaces, such as in large vehicles, and often borrowed or imitated for structural or decorative use on other objects.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000885

Term used for

elements, architectural

Equivalent Terms used

architectural element

Created

13yrs ago

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