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Damp proofing
Damp proofing is the set of materials and measures that stop moisture entering buildings, chiefly a damp proof course, an impervious wall layer blocking rising damp.
Damp-proof course
A damp-proof course (DPC) is an impervious layer built into a wall, or injected into it later, that stops rising damp; accepted materials include bitumen, polyethylene, and engineering bricks.
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Burnham (1846–1912) was an American architect and urban planner who directed the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, designed the Flatiron Building, and co-authored the 1909 Plan of Chicago.
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind (born 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born American architect known for the Jewish Museum Berlin and the World Trade Center master plan.
Dara Huang
Dara Huang is an American architect and designer, born in Taiwan, who founded the London firm Design Haus Liberty in 2013 and the furniture line Dara Maison.
David Madson (architect)
David Madson, also known as David Jon Madson, was a Minneapolis-based architect whose master's thesis proposed an original AIDS memorial design. Andrew Cunanan murdered him in Minnesota in 1997.
Deck (building)
A deck, also called timber decking, is an outdoor platform attached to a house or free-standing, built on beams and joists and surfaced with decking boards.
Deconstructivism
Deconstructivism, or Deconstructivist architecture, is an architectural movement of the late 1980s defined by irregular, fragmented, non-rectilinear forms rejecting Modernist grids and rational structure, named by a 1988 MoMA exhibition.
Design
Design is a plan or specification for constructing an object, system, or activity, or the realized result, spanning architecture, engineering, software, and the applied arts.
Design brief
A design brief is the written document recording a client's goals, requirements, and constraints for a building project before design begins; problems in buildings often trace back to it.
Design development
Design development is the second major phase of the architectural design process, refining the approved schematic design into a coordinated solution covering structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.
Detail drawing
A detail drawing is a large-scale architectural drawing showing a small part of a building, such as a wall junction, with exact construction, dimensions, and materials.
Deutscher Werkbund
The Deutscher Werkbund is a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, founded in Munich in 1907 to unite art with industry and improve German products.
DGNB
DGNB, or Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen, is the German Sustainable Building Council, founded in 2007 to certify buildings, districts, interiors, and construction sites for sustainability.
Digital architecture
Digital architecture is architecture designed, developed, or fabricated with substantial reliance on computer technologies, from CAD and BIM to parametric, generative, and algorithmic design, emerging as a design current in the 1990s.
Dining room
A dining room, also called a dining area, is a room in a home or hotel where meals are eaten, especially the major or more formal meals.
Displacement ventilation
Displacement ventilation is a room air distribution method that supplies slightly cool air at low velocity near the floor, so warm, contaminated air rises to a ceiling exhaust.
Dome
A dome is a rounded roof or vault shaped like the upper half of a sphere, whose curved shell carries its weight to the ground without internal supports.
Domus (magazine)
Domus is an Italian monthly magazine of architecture, design, and art, founded in Milan in 1928 by Gio Ponti, bilingual in Italian and English and distributed in 89 countries.
Door
A door is a movable barrier, usually hinged or sliding, that closes an opening in a wall or vehicle, serving security, privacy, insulation, and access.
Door closer
A door closer is a spring-and-hydraulic device that returns an opened door to its closed position without slamming, and is required on self-closing fire doors.
Door frame
A door frame is the assembly of vertical jambs and a horizontal lintel that surrounds a doorway, holds the door on its hinges, and closes the gap to the wall.
Doric order
The Doric order, also called Greek Doric, is the oldest of the classical architectural orders of ancient Greece, known for plain, sturdy columns without bases.
Double coding
Double coding is a concept in architectural theory introduced by Charles Jencks in 1977, holding that a postmodern building addresses experts and the general public at once.
Double-skin facade
A double-skin facade (DSF) is a building envelope with two layers of glazing separated by a ventilated cavity that buffers solar heat, noise, and ventilation before air reaches the interior.
Drain-waste-vent system
The drain-waste-vent system, or DWV, is the gravity-fed pipe network that carries a building's wastewater to the sewer while venting drains to protect fixture traps.
Dravidian architecture
Dravidian architecture, also called South Indian temple architecture, is the Hindu temple style of southern India, defined by the pyramidal vimana tower and gopuram gateways.
Dropped ceiling
A dropped ceiling, also known as a suspended or false ceiling, is a non-structural secondary ceiling hung below the structural slab, creating a void that hides wiring, ducts, and fixtures.
Drywall
Drywall, also known as Sheetrock or plasterboard, is a fire-resistant panel of gypsum faced with paper, used for interior walls and ceilings; modern wallboard was invented in 1916 by United States Gypsum.
Dutch door
A Dutch door is a door split horizontally into two halves that can open separately or latch together, letting air in while keeping children and animals out.