Arch 141
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| Vault | An arched ceiling or roof of stone brick or concrete.
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| Post & Lintel | An ancient and, structurally the simplest type of construction. Vertical members supported by horizontal members.
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| Drum | A vertical wall supporting a dome.
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| Cardo/decumanus | an east-west street that served as a secondary main street.
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| Bay | A verticle division of the exterior or interior of a building marked not by walls but by fenestration, and order, Buttresses, Units of vaulting, roof compartments, etc..
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| Arcade | A series of arches supporting a wall, or set along it.
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| Arch | The spanning of an opening by means other that of a lintel.
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| Arcuated | A term applied to a building dependent structurally on the use of arches or the arch principle.
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| Atrium | a inner court open to the sky and surrounded by small rooms covered with tiled roofs sloping inwards to a rectangular opening.
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| Barrel Vault | A vault forming a half cylinder.
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| Molding | Continuous projection or grove, used decoratively to throw shadow or to throw water away from a wall.
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| Megaron | A square or oblong room with a central hearth and usually four columns to support the roof.
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| Triglyph | Blocks separating the metopes in a doric frieze.
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| Villa | The land owners residence or farmstead on his country estate.
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| Ziggurat | A rectangular temple tower in the form of a truncated pyramid built in diminishing stages.
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| Aqueduct | An artificial channel for carrying water, usually an elevated masonry or brick structure supported on arches.
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| Apse | A large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof, typically at the n end, and usually containing the altar.
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| Aedicule | Properly a canopied niche or shrine framed by two columns supporting an entablature and pediment.
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| Voussoirs | A brick or wedge-shaped stone forming one of the units of an arch.
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| Volute | A spiral scroll on an Ionic capital.
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| Transepts | The transverse arms of a cross shaped church, usually between Nave and Chancel.
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| Pyramid | Egyptian royal tomb.
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| Coffers | Decoration of a ceiling, a vault, or an arch soffit.
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| Lintel | A horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.
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| Groin or Cross Vault | Two intersecting barrel vaults.
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| Greek Cross | A centralized plan based on a cross with four equal arms.
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| Nave | The main central body of a longitudinally planned building such as a Roman Basilica or Christian church.
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| Niche | A vertical recess in a wall pier etc., usually arched and containing a statue, urn or other decorative objects.
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| Obelisk | A tall tapering shaft of stone usually granite, monolithic, of square or rectangular section.
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| Pediment | Low-pitched gable above a portico.
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| Caryatid | A sculptured female figure used as a column to support an entablature or something similar.
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| Base | Columns sit on a pedestal usually a square die.
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| Terra Cotta | Baked earth clay molded and kiln-fired to make a hard compact material used for bricks.
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| Keystone | The central wedge-shaped stone at the crown of an arch or a rib vault.
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| Capital | The head or crowning feature of a column, pier or pilaster.
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| Gable | The triangular upper portion of a wall at the end of a pitched roof.
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| Cantilever | A horizontal projection supported by a downward force behind a fulcrum.
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| Adobe | Unbaked mud brick died in the sun. Often containing straw and pounded earth as reinforcement.
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| Trabeation | Constructed on the post and lintel principle
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| Pilaster | A rectangular column, especially one projecting from a wall
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| Peristyle | A range of columns surrounding a building, open court or garden.
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| Polychromy | The ancient Greek use of many colors in architecture.
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| Column | An upright structural member, square, round or rectangular and usually slightly tapering.
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| Colonnade | A series of regularly spaced columns supporting an entablature and usually one side of a roof.
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| Clerestory | The upper stage of the main walls of a church above the aisle roofs.
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| Citadel | In military architecture, a fort with from four to six bastions.
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| Centering | Wooden framework used in arch and vault construction.
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| Dentils | A small square block used in series in Ionic, Corninthan, Composite and rarely Doric Cornices.
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| Egg and Dart | Molding decorated with a pattern based, on alternate eggs and arrow heads.
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| Facade | The front or face of a building, usually emphasized architecturally
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| Cruicfrom | Shaped like a cross, as in the plan of a christian church.
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| Crossing | The space at the intersection of the nave.
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| Engaged column | A structural column attached t, or partly sunk into, a wall, usually non-load bearing.
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| Entablature | The upper part of an order
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| Corbelled Vault | Brick or masonry courses, each built beyond the one below like a series of corbels.
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| Fenestration | The arrangement of windows in the exterior walls of a building.
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| Elevation | The external faces of a building. Also a drawing made in projection on a vertical plane.
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| Dome | A vault of even curvature erected on a circular base or drum.
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| Cornice | In classical arch, The top, projection section of an entablature.
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| Fluting | Shallow, concave grooves running vertically on the shaft of a column.
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| Forum | A central open space usually surrounded by public buuildings and colonnades.
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| Composite Order | Mixed order, combing the volutes of the Ionic with leaves of the Corinthan order.
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| Tuscan Order | Simplified Doric order, with un-fluted columns and simpler entablatures.
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| Doric Order | The sturdiest, was based on the proportions of a man.
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| Ionic Order | Was lighter reflects the proportions of a woman.
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| Corinthian Order | Slenderest of all, highly decorated capital to suggest the form and proportions of a young maiden.
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| Pier | a support of masonry, steel, or the like for sustaining vertical pressure
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| Frieze | a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.
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