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The science of designing and building structures for habitation.
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basilica
Architecture; General architecture
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. ...
diaulos
Architecture; General architecture
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 ...
hyphen
Architecture; General architecture
Possibly from an older term "heifunon" - a structural section connecting the main portion of a building with its projecting "dependencies" or wings.
brise soleil
Architecture; General architecture
Projecting fins or canopies which shade windows from direct sunlight.
return
Architecture; General architecture
Receding edge of a flat face. On a flat signboard, for example, the return is the edge which makes up the board's depth.
mutule
Architecture; General architecture
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 ...
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