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This is a list of terms used in classical architecture. ...
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Molding or moulding is a strip of material with various cross sections used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. ...
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Aisle In a modern church an aisle is a row down the middle of the church with a set of pews on each side. ...
- Subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers, or posts.
Apron (architecture) - Raised panel below a window or wall monument or tablet.
Apse This article is about an architectural feature; for the astronomical term see apsis. ...
- Vaulted semicircular or polygonal end of a chancel or chapel.
Arcade (architecture) The Cleveland Arcade in downtown Cleveland (late 1960s) An arcade is a passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns, or else it is a covered passage fronted by a series of arches. ...
- Passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns. Blind arcade or arcading: the same applied to the wall surface.
Arch Isometric view of a typical arch An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e. ...
The Lierne vault of the Liebfrauenkirche, Mühlacker 1482. ...
Deconstructing a Roman pillar. ...
Isometric view of a typical arch An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e. ...
- A curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight.
Architrave Span is a section between two intermediate supports of a bridge. ...
The architrave is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. ...
- Formalized lintel, the lowest member of the classical entablature. Also the moulded frame of a door or window (often borrowing the profile of a classical architrave).
Arris An arris is an architectural term that describes the intersection between two outside planes such as the corner of a masonry unit or the intersection of divergent architectural details. ...
- Sharp edge where two surfaces meet at an angle.
Ashlar Ashlar is dressed stone work of any type of stone. ...
- Masonry of large blocks cut with even faces and square edges.
Atrium In Anatomy, atrium refers to a structure of the heart. ...
- (Plural: atria): inner court of a Roman or C20 house; in a multi-storey building, a toplit covered court rising through all storeys.
Attic A typical attic. ...
- Small top storey within a roof. The storey above the main entablature of a classical façade.
An entablature is a classical architectural element, the superstructure which lies horizontally above the columns, resting on their capitals. ...
West façade of the Notre-Dame de Strasbourg Cathedral A facade (or façade) is the exterior of a building – especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. ...
B Bahut (architecture) - Dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.
Baluster Stairs, staircase, stairway, flight of stairs are all names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. ...
A page of fanciful balusters from A Handbook of Ornament, Franz S. Meyer, 1898 A baluster (through the French balustre, from Italian balaustro, from balaustra, pomegranate flower [from a resemblance to the post], from Lat. ...
 A page of fanciful balusters - Small moulded shaft, square or circular, in stone or wood, sometimes metal, supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase (pictured).
Balustrade Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1302x1992, 150 KB) Source: A handbook of ornament (1898) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Baluster Architectural glossary ...
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- A series of balusters supporting a handrail or coping.
Basement A page of fanciful balusters from A Handbook of Ornament, Franz S. Meyer, 1898 A baluster (through the French balustre, from Italian balaustro, from balaustra, pomegranate flower [from a resemblance to the post], from Lat. ...
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Coping (architecture) consists of the capping or covering of a wall. ...
A townhouse with basement windows showing A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. ...
- The lowest, subordinate storey of building often either entirely or paritially below ground level; the lowest part of classical elevation, below the piano nobile.
Basilica Kedleston Hall. ...
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- Originally a Roman, large roofed hall erected for transacting business and disposing of legal matters.; later the term came to describe an aisled building with a clerestory. Medieval cathedral plans were a development of the basilica plan type.
Bays A Bay is a module in classical or Gothic architecture, the distance between two supports of a vault or the unit of an opening and its framing on a façade. ...
- Internal compartments of a building; each divided from the other by subtle means such as the boundaries implied by divisions marked in the side walls (columns, pilasters, etc) or the ceiling (beams, etc). Also external divisions of a building by fenestration (windows).
Bay window Bay windows in San Francisco, California. ...
- Window of one or more storeys projecting from the face of a building. Canted: with a straight front and angled sides. Bow window: curved. Oriel: rests on corbels or brackets and starts above ground level; also the bay window at the dais end of a medieval great hall.
Belfry A bow window, whether at Whites or in Sherlock Holmess apartment, is not a bay window. ...
Oriel windows are a form of bay window commonly found in Gothic revival architecture, which jut out from the main wall of the building but do not reach to the ground. ...
A great hall was the main room of a royal palace, a noblemans castle or a large manor house in the Middle Ages, and in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries. ...
A tower containing one or more bells, typically part of a church, is a bell tower; attached to a city hall or other civil building, it is usually named belfry; the occasional free standing one may be referred to by its Italian name, campanile. ...
- Chamber or stage in a tower where bells are hung.
Bond It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Masonry. ...
- Term used to describe the manner in which bricks are laid in a wall so that they interlock.
Boss (architecture) Early English roof bosses at Salisbury Cathedral, England A Green Man roof boss from Dore Abbey, Herefordshire, England, no longer in its original position The nave of St. ...
- The projecting keystone of a ribbed vault, usually carved.
Bossage In architecture, a vault is an arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. ...
- Uncut stone that is laid in place in a building, projecting outward from the building, to later be carved into decorative moldings, capitals, arms, etc. Bossages are also rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the surface of the building, by reason of indentures, or channels left in the joinings; used chiefly in the corners of buildings, and called rustic quoins. The cavity or indenture may be round, square, chamfered, bevelled, diamond-shaped, or enclosed with a cavetto or listel. [2]
Boutant Rustic could refer to: Rustic (hip hop artist) The Rustic, a noctuid moth This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
Italianate Quoins Architectural Style Quoins are the corner stones that anchor the edge of the building wall. ...
Bahut a dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade. ...
Annulets, in architecture, are small square components in the Doric capital, under the quarter-round. ...
- Type of support. An arc-boutant, or flying buttress, serves to sustain a vault, and is self-sustained by some strong wall or massive work. A pillar boutant is a large chain or jamb of stone, made to support a wall, terrace, or vault. The word is French, and comes from the verb bouter, "to butt" or "abut". [2]
Brise soleil Flying buttresses at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. ...
Concrete brise-soleil Brise soleil, or brise-soleil (from French, sun break) in architecture refers to a variety of permanent sun-shading techniques, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier to the elaborate mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum. ...
- Projecting fins or canopies which shade windows from direct sunlight.
Bullseye window Oeil-de-Boeuf, also œil de bœuf (Bulls eye) a term given to an oval window, set horizonally as a dormer. ...
- A small oval window, set horizontally.
Bressumer - (Literally "breast- beam") - A large, horizontal beam supporting the wall above, especially in a jettied building.
Bulwark - Barricade of beams and soil used in 15th and 16th century fortifications designed to mount artillery. On board ships the term is used of the woodwork running round the ship above the level of the deck. Figuratively it means anything serving as a defence.
Buttress Closeup of a collection of blinker equipped barricades A barricade is any object or structure that creates a barrier or obstacle to control, block passage or force the flow of traffic in the desired direction. ...
A statically determinate beam, bending under an evenly distributed load. ...
For the American hard rock band, see Soil (band). ...
(14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...
(15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...
Artillery with Gabion fortification Cannons on display at Fort Point Continental Artillery crew from the American Revolution Firing of an 18-pound gun, Louis-Philippe Crepin, (1772 – 1851) A forge-welded Iron Cannon in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. ...
Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of deep water navigation. ...
Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ...
A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull[1] of a ship. ...
A buttress (and mostly concealed, a flying buttress) supporting walls at the Palace of Westminster Four different types of buttress: diagonal, on the statues plinth; an ordinary buttress supporting a flying buttress, to the right of the statue; a small ordinary buttress to the right side of the picture...
- Vertical member projecting from a wall to stabilize it or to resist the lateral thrust of an arch, roof, or vault. A flying buttress transmits the thrust to a heavy abutment by means of an arch or half-arch.
Flying buttresses at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. ...
Isometric view of a typical arch An arch is a curved structure capable of spanning a space while supporting significant weight (e. ...
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Cancellus (plural:Cancelli) Barriers which correspond to the modern balustrade or railing, especially the screen dividing the body of a church from the part occupied by the ministers hence chancel. The Romans employed cancelli to partition off portions of the courts of law.
Cauliculus, or caulicole Stalks (eight in number) with two leaves from which rise the helices or spiral scrolls of the Corinthian capital to support the abacus. The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ...
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Chalcidicum In Roman architecture, is the vestibule or portico of a public building opening on to the forum, as in the basilica of Eumactria at Pompeii, and the basilica of Constantine at Rome, where it was placed at one end.
Chresmographion Chamber between the pronaos and the cella in Greek temples where oracles were delivered. A cella, in Ancient Greek and Roman temples was the central room that housed cult statues. ...
Cincture Ring, list, or fillet at the top and bottom of a column, which divides the shaft from the capital and base.[2] In food, a fillet (pronounced “fil-layâ€) is a thin, boneless cut of meat. ...
Cinque cento Style which became prevalent in Italy in the century following 1500, now usually called 16th-century work. It was the result of the revival of classic architecture known as Renaissance, but the change had commenced already a century earlier, in the works of Ghiberti and Donatello in sculpture, and of Brunelleschi and Alberti in architecture. Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 - December 1, 1455) was an important Renaissance artist, specializing in sculpture and metalworking. ...
Statue of Habacuc (popularly known as Zuccone) for the Giottos Bell Tower. ...
Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377 - 1446, was the first great Florentine architect of the Italian Renaissance. ...
Alberti was an illustrious Florentine family, rivals of the Medicis and the Albizzi. ...
Cippus A low pedestal, either round or rectangular, set up by the Romans for various purposes such as military or milestones, boundary posts. The inscriptions on some in the British Museum show that they were occasionally funeral memorials.
Cleithral An architectural term applied to a covered Greek temple, in contradistinction to hypaethral, which designates one that is uncovered the roof of a cleithral temple completely covers
Collarino (also colarin or colarino) The little frieze of the capital of the Tuscan and Doric column placed between the astragal, and the annulets. It was called by Vitruvius, hypotrachelium. In classical architecture, the hypotrachelium (Gr. ...
Compluvium Latin term for the open space left in the roof of the atrium of a Roman house for lighting it and the rooms round.
Cornice The upper section of an entablature, a projecting shelf along the top of a wall often supported by brackets. An example of a cornice along the top of a building in Wheeling, West Virginia. ...
Cross springer Block from which the diagonal ribs of a vault spring or start the top of the springer is known as the skewback.
Crypto-porticus A concealed or covered passage, generally underground, though lighted and ventilated from the open air. One of the best-known examples is the crypto-porticus under the palaces of the Caesars in Rome. In Hadrians villa in Rome they formed the principal private intercommunication between the several buildings.
Cyrto-style Circular projecting portico with columns, like those of the transept entrances of St Paul's cathedral and the western entrance of St Mary-le-Strand, London.
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Diastyle A term used to designate an intercolumniation of three or four diameters.
Diaulos Peristyle round the great court of the palaestra, described by Vitruvius, which measured two stadia (1,200 ft.) in length, on the south side this peristyle had two rows of columns, so that in stormy weather the rain might not be driven into the inner part. The word was also used in ancient Greece for a foot race of twice the usual length.
Diazomata Landing places and passages which were carried round the semicircle and separated the upper and lower tiers in a Greek theatre.
Dikka Islamic architectural term for the tribune raised upon columns, from which the Koran is recited and the prayers intoned by the Imam of the mosque.
Dipteral Temples which have a double range of columns in the peristyle, as in the temple of Diana at Ephesus.
Distyle A portico which has two columns between antae, known as distyle-in-antis.
Dodecastyle A temple where the portico has twelve columns in front, as in the portico added to the temple of Demeter at Eleusis, designed by Philo, the architect of the arsenal at the Peiraeus. Philo (20 BCE - 40 CE), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judeaus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt. ...
Doric order One of the three orders or organisational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture characterised by columns which stood on the flat pavement of a temple without a base, their vertical shafts fluted with pararell concave grooves topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam that they carried. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (853x1342, 216 KB) Encyclopedie: Classical Orders, engraving from the Encyclopédie vol. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (853x1342, 216 KB) Encyclopedie: Classical Orders, engraving from the Encyclopédie vol. ...
Dosseret, or impost block Cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area greatly in excess of the column which carried them.
Dromos Entrance passage or avenue leading to a building, tomb or passageway. Those leading to beehive tombs are enclosed between stone walls and sometimes in-filled between successive uses of the tomb.[1] In ancient Egypt the dromos was straight, paved avenue flanked by sphinxes.[2] The Treasury of Atreus tholos in 2004 Beehive tombs, also known as Tholos tombs (plural tholoi), are a style of Mycenaean chamber tomb from the Bronze Age. ...
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Ephebeum Large hall in the ancient Palaestra furnished with seats, the length of which should be a third larger than the width. It served for the exercises of youths of from sixteen to eighteen years of age.
Epinaos Open vestibule behind the nave. The term is not found in any classic author, but is a modern coinage, originating in Germany, to differentiate the feature from opisthodomus, which in the Parthenon was an enclosed chamber.
Estrade French term for a raised platform. In the Levant the estrade of a divan is called Sopha (Blondel), from which comes our sofa.
Eustyle Intercolumniation defined by Vitruvius as being of the best proportion, i.e. two and a half diameters. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. ...
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Feretory Enclosure or chapel within which the fereter shrine, or tomb (as in Henry VII.'s chapel), was placed.
Foot-stall Literally translation of “pedestal”, the lower part of a pier in architecture.
Formeret French term for the wall-rib carrying the web or filling-in of a vault.
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Gablets Triangular terminations to buttresses, much in use in the Early English and Decorated periods, after which the buttresses generally terminated in pinnacles. The Early English gablets are generally plain, and very sharp in pitch. In the Decorated period they are often enriched with panelling and crockets. They are sometimes finished with small crosses, but more often with finials. A buttress (and mostly concealed, a flying buttress) supporting walls at the Palace of Westminster Four different types of buttress: diagonal, on the statues plinth; an ordinary buttress supporting a flying buttress, to the right of the statue; a small ordinary buttress to the right side of the picture...
Salisbury Cathedral, built c. ...
The west end of Exeter Cathedral The Decorated Gothic (or simply Decorated) period is a historical division of English Gothic architecture. ...
Crockets applied to the finials at Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Ostend, Belgium A crocket is a hook-shaped decorative element common in Gothic architecture. ...
Gadrooning Carved or curved molding used in architecture and interior design as decorative motiff, often consisting of flutes which are inverted and curved. Popular during the Italian Renaissance.
Garretting, properly Galletting The process in which the gallets or small splinters of stone are inserted in the joints of coarse masonry to protect the mortar joints. They are stuck in while the mortar is wet.
Geison The geison (Greek: γεῖσον - often interchangeable with cornice) is the part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze in the Doric order and from the top of the frieze course of the Ionic and Corinthan orders; it forms the outer edge of the roof on the sides of a structure with a sloped roof. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Cornice. ...
An example of a cornice along the top of a building in Wheeling, West Virginia. ...
An entablature is a classical architectural element, the superstructure which lies horizontally above the columns, resting on their capitals. ...
The uncompleted Doric temple at Segesta, Sicily, has been waiting for finishing of its surfaces since 430–420 BC The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. ...
Architects first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 (Plate XX) The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and...
The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ...
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Lacunar Latin name in architecture for a panelled or coffered ceiling or soffit. The word is derived from lacuna, a cavity or hollow, a blank, hiatus or gap. The panels or coffers of a ceiling are by Vitruvius called lacunaria.
Loggia A loggia is a gallery formed by a colonnade open on one or more sides. The space is often located on an upper floor of a building overlooking an open court or garden.
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Maksoora Islamic architectural term given to the sanctuary or praying-chamber in a mosque, which was sometimes enclosed with a screen of lattice-work the word is occasionally used for a similar enclosure round a tomb.
Mansard Roof A curb roof in which each face has two slopes, the lower one steeper than the upper. [f. F mansarde (F. M~, architect, d. 1666)]
Modillion Enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice and above the bedmold of the Corinthian entablature. It is probably so called because of its arrangement in regulated distances.
Monotriglyph Interval of the intercolumniation of the Doric column, which is observed by the intervention of one triglyph only between the triglyphs which come over the axes of the columns. This is the usual arrangement, but in the Propylaea at Athens there are two triglyphs over the central intercolumniation, in order to give increased width to the roadway, up which chariots and beasts of sacrifice ascended. Doric, a synonym of Dorian, may refer to any of the following: The Dorians, one of the ancient Hellenic races, Doric Greek, the dialect of the former, the Doric order and its distinctive Doric column, in ancient Greek architecture, the Dorian mode in music, also called the Doric mode, or...
Triglyph centered over the last column in the Doric order of the Ancient Romans Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided, the two chamfered angles or hemiglyphs being reckoned...
Crowds of tourists climb the steps to the Propylaea, gateway to the Acropolis, Athens Stairs leading up to the Propylea The Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (Greek Î Ïοπυλαια) is the monumental gateway that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. ...
Moulding (Molding) Decorative finishing strip.
Mullion Vertical bar of wood, metal or stone which divides a window into two or more parts.
Muqarna A type of decorative corbel used in Islamic architecture that in some circumstances, resembles stalactites. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Mutule Rectangular block under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which is studded with guttae. It is supposed to represent the piece of timber through which the wooden pegs were driven in order to hold the rafter in position, and it follows the sloping rake of the roof. In the Roman Doric order the mutule was horizontal, with sometimes a crowning fillet, so that it virtually fulfilled the purpose of the modillion in the Corinthian cornice. Cone-shaped gutta pictured below the triglyph in the Doric order Gutta (plural guttae) is a small water-repelling, cone-shaped peg used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture, below the narrow taenia (fillet) and cymatium. ...
An example of a cornice along the top of a building in Wheeling, West Virginia. ...
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Oillets Arrow slits in the walls of medieval fortifications, but more strictly applied to the round hole or circle with which the openings terminate. The same term is applied to the small circles inserted in the tracery-head of the windows of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, sometimes varied with trefoils and quatrefoils.
Orthostatae Greek architecture term for the lowest course of masonry of the external walls of the naos or cella, consisting of vertical slabs of stone or marble equal in height to two or three of the horizontal courses which constitute the inner part of the wall. Naos (nay-os, from the Greek ναÏσ ship, also known as Suhail Hadar, Zeta Puppis or ζ Puppis), a white supergiant in the constellation of Puppis, is one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way, in terms of absolute magnitude. ...
A cella, in Ancient Greek and Roman temples was the central room that housed cult statues. ...
Orthostyle A range of columns placed in a straight row, as for instance those of the portico or flanks of a classic temple.
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Parclose Screen or railing used to enclose a chantry, tomb or chapel, in a church, and for the space thus enclosed.
Peripteral Term applied to a temple or other structure where the columns of the front portico are returned along its sides as wings at the distance of one or two intercolumniations from the walls of the naos or cella. Almost all the Greek temples were peripteral, whether Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian Categories: Architectural elements | Stub ...
A cella, in Ancient Greek and Roman temples was the central room that housed cult statues. ...
A cella, in Ancient Greek and Roman temples was the central room that housed cult statues. ...
Planceer or Planchier Building element sometimes used in the same sense as a soffit, but more correctly applied to the soffit of the corona in a cornice. Soffit (from French soffite, Italian soffitto, formed as a ceiling; from suffictus for suffixus, Latin suffigere, to fix underneath). ...
In astronomy, a corona is the luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but also observable in a coronagraph. ...
An example of a cornice along the top of a building in Wheeling, West Virginia. ...
Poppy heads Term given to the finials or other ornaments which terminate the tops of bench ends, either to pews or stalls. They are sometimes small human heads, sometimes richly carved images, knots of foliage or finials, and sometimes fleurs-de-lis simply cut out of the thickness of the bench end and chamfered. The term is probably derived from the French poupee doll or puppet used also in this sense, or from the flower, from a resemblance in shape.
Portico A series of columns or arches in front of a building, generally as a covered walkway. Image File history File linksMetadata BO-portico. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata BO-portico. ...
Prick post Old architectural name given sometimes to the queen posts of a roof, and sometimes to the filling in quarters in framing.
Term defining free standing columns that are widely spaced apart in a row. The term is often used as an adjective when referring to a portico which projects from the main structure. The National Bank, Oamaru, New Zealand, built 1871. ...
Deconstructing a Roman pillar. ...
In grammar, an adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun, usually by describing it or making its meaning more specific. ...
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Pseudo-peripteral Temple in which the columns surrounding the naos have had walls built between them, so that they become engaged columns, as in the great temple at Agrigentum. In Roman temples, in order to increase the size of the celia, the columns on either side and at the rear became engaged columns, the portico only having isolated columns.
Pycnostyle Architectural term given by Vitruvius to the intercolumniation between the columns of a temple, when this was equal to 11/2 diameters. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. ...
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Rear vault Vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a small rib known as the scoinson rib, and a further development is given by angle shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts. The Lierne vault of the Liebfrauenkirche, Mühlacker 1482. ...
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Sommer or Summer Girder or main "summer beam" of a floor: if supported on two storey posts and open below, also called a "bress" or "breast-summer". Often found at the centerline of the house to support one end of a joist, and to bear the weight of the structure above. A joist, in architecture and engineering, is one of the supporting bars that run from wall to wall to support a ceiling (or floor). ...
Systyle In the classical orders, this describes columns rather thickly set, with an intercolumniation to which two diameters are assigned A refined canonic version of the Orders engraved for the Encyclopédie, vol. ...
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