The Textbook of Architecture

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Roof garden

Also called roof terrace

A flat roof used as a garden or terrace; the fifth of Le Corbusier’s points.

Rules that use the word

The roof garden. Make the flat roof a garden and terrace, returning to the house the ground that the building has occupied.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Frame and Skin, The Modern Movement.

Nearby in the glossary

Riwaq · Rocaille · Roji · Roof comb · Rose window · Roughcast · Royal cubit · Rustication