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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. Medieval cathedral plans ...

arcade

Architecture; General architecture

A series of columns or piers spanned by arches.

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 columns, so that in stormy ...

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 pegs were driven in ...