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Aerial views
Designates views achieved by photographing from an aircraft or other high locations. For nonphotographic depictions with high viewpoints, see bird's-eye views.
Allées
Walkways bordered by formally planted trees, clipped hedges, or shrubs; usually found in formal gardens or parks.
Animal husbandry
Science and practice of breeding, raising, feeding, and tending domestic animals, especially but not exclusively farm animals, including silkworms.
Antiquarianism
Interest in or devotion to things of the past, especially of ancient times. The term implies admiration of a style or object simply because it is old.
Arboretum
Botanical gardens devoted to the cultivation and exhibition of trees and other woody plants, rare or otherwise.
Arbors
Light, open structures either formed from trees, shrubs, or vines closely planted and twined together to be self-supporting or formed from a latticework frame covered with plant materials; generally less extensive and less substantial than pergolas.
Arcades
A range of arches raised on columns or piers that may be either freestanding or attached to a wall. This term may also designate covered walks with such lines of arches along one or both sides.
Arches
The spanning of an opening by means other than that of a lintel.
Atriums (Roman halls)
The main inner halls of Roman houses having a compluvium (opening in the roof) for rainwater and an impluvium (rectangular basin) to collect the water.
Automata
Mechanical figures or contrivances, as toys, amusements, and in clocks, constructed to move as if by their own power, generally by intricate hidden mechanisms; known since at least the Hellenistic period.
Aviaries
Houses, enclosures, or large cages for confining live birds; distinguished from birdhouses, which house birds but do not confine them.
Axes (open spaces)
In landscape design, a central, straight line around which portions of the design are more or less symmetrically located.
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