Architecture Crossword Puzzle

About the Architecture Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle covers the styles, structural features, and design vocabulary used to describe buildings. Search for terms such as Gothic, column, facade, buttress, and cantilever, along with words for plans and materials. It is suited to students, design enthusiasts, and anyone curious about how buildings are shaped and constructed.

This crossword draws on 43 clues about Architecture. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Covered passage lined with arches (6 letters)
• •Ornate European style of the seventeenth century (7 letters)
• •External support built against a wall (8 letters)
• •Projecting molding along a roofline (7 letters)
• •Building's outward-facing side (6 letters)
• •Construction using stone or brick (7 letters)
• •Shallow rectangular column attached to a wall (8 letters)
• •Window set into a roof (8 letters)

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