Building Types and Terms

Generic terms and definitions for kinds of building or structure, not any single named building: the acoustic shell, the air-supported structure, the amphitheatre as a building form, the arena as a building form, the bakehouse, the bandstand, the building as a generic term, the facility as a generic term, the folly, the gazebo, the icehouse, the music venue as a building form, and the pavilion as a building form. Belongs here: an entry that defines a class or type of structure in the abstract, the way a glossary entry does, rather than describing one specific standing or historic building by name. Does not belong here: any specific named building, however small, which belongs under the subcategory matching its actual function (a named amphitheatre belongs under cultural and institutional buildings, a named pavilion under the same, and so on); this subcategory exists so a reader looking for what a term like folly or gazebo MEANS is not mixed into the list of actual named buildings a function-based subcategory holds.