Review: APAH architecture terms

("new light") the colored light that pours in through stained glass windows

a half-round column attached to a wall

a covered walkway, outdoors (as in a church cloister) or indoors; especially the passageway around the apse and the choir of a church; in Buddhist architecture, the passageway around the stupa in a chaitya hall

a Roman building type resembling two Greek theaters put together; featured a continuous elliptical cavea around a central arena

consists typically of an inclined member carried on an arch or a series of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmits lateral thrust

a bee-hived shaped tomb with a circular plan [Mycenean]

the uppermost course of the platform of a Greek temple, which supports the columns

the space enclosed by a lintel and arch over a doorway

in church architecture, the pillar or center post supporting the lintel in the middle of a doorway

a concave, triangular section of a hemisphere, four of which provide the transition from a square area to the circular base of a covering dome; support the dome

cross-shaped

the middle member of an entablature, between the architrave and the cornice; can be decorated

in architecture, the side posts of a doorway

the court of a Roman house that is partly open to the sky; also the open, colonnaded court in front of and attached to a Christian basilica

a semicircular area in a wall over a door, niche, or window

a simple and massive gateway with sloping walls

a circular stained glass window

portion of a basilica flanking the nave and separated from it by a row of columns or piers

one of the ribs that form the x of a groin vault

the panel between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often sculpted in relief

in Gothic architecture, a tall narrow window ending in a pointed arch

an architectural device used as a transition from a square to a polygonal or circular base for a dome

a narrow arch or pointed profile, in contrast to a semicircular arch

the central area of an ancient Roman basilica or of a church, demarcated from aisles by piers or columns

the court of a Roman house that is partly open to the sky; also, the open, colonnaded court in front of and attached to a Christian basilica

a pier with a group or cluster of attached shafts or responds, especially characteristic of Gothic architecture

a masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle

in medieval churches, chapels for the display of relics that opened directly onto the ambulatory and the transept

an ancient Egyptian rectangular brick of stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected with the outside by a shaft

a triple projecting, grooved member of a Doric frieze that alternates with metopes

the main chamber of a Greek or Roman temple, built to house the cult image

the parts of a building are organized along a given axis

a transverse, wall-bearing arch that divides a vault or ceiling into compartments, providing a kind of firebreak

in Gothic churches, a sharply pointed ornament capping the piers or flying buttresses; also used on church facades

the continuous molding framing an arch; in Romanesque and Gothic architecture, one of the series of concentric bands framing the tympanum

a vault characteristic of English perpendicular Gothic, in which radiating rivs form a fanlike pattern

the tower over the crossing of a church

a monumental tomb

the fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts; in Roman basilicas and medieval churches, the windows that form the nave's uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults

the uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel; form varies with order

a hemispheric vault

a series or row of columns, usually spanned by lintels

usually the front of a building; also, the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally

the group of horizontal members resting on the columns or pilasters of one of the classical orders; divided into three major parts: architrave, frieze, and cornice

a system of construction in which two posts support a lintel (TT)

a rib that crosses the nave or aisle at a 90-degree angle

in Roman architecture, a freestanding arch commemorating an important event, such as a military victory or the opening of a new road; in Christian architecture, the arch framing the apse at the end of a church nave

a porch or vestibule of a church, generally colonnaded or arcaded and preceding the nave

a wedge-shaped block used in the construction of a true arch; the central

a vault whose ribs divide the vault into six compartments

a female figure used as a column

the public square of an ancient Roman city

part of a church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle

in Gothic architecture, the colored glass used for windows

a recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church

a hall with a roof supported by columns

in a Gothic cathedral, the blind arcaded gallery below the clerestory; occasionally the arcades are filled with stained glass

a projecting wall member used as a support for some element in the superstructure; also courses of stone or brick in which each course projects beyond the one beneath it; two such walls meeting at the topmost course created a corbeled arch or a corbeled vault

one of the classical systems of carefully proportioned and interdependent parts which include a column and its entablature; generally can be recognized by the distinctive capitals; Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, etc (be able to distinguish!)

a flat, rectangular, vertical member projecting from a wall of which it forms a part; usually has a base and a capital and is often fluted

the high temple platform, build of mud brick, in the form of a truncated stepped pyramid with ramplike stairways leading to the sanctuary at the top

the parts of the structure are of equal or almost equal dimensions around the center

the round central opening of a dome; also a small round window in a Gothic cathedral

a framework of ribs or arches under the intersections of the vaulting sections

a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches, one behind the other, over an oblong space

a sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or a ceiling

the lowest stone of an arch, resting on the impost block; in Gothic vaulting, the lowest stone of a diagonal or transverse rib

a vertical, weight-carrying architectural member, circular in cross-section and consisting of a base, a shaft, and a capital

an exterior masonry structure that opposes the lateral thrust of an arch of a vault

a spiral, scroll-like form characteristic of the ancient Greek Ionic and Roman Composite capital

in Roman architecture, a civic building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on a long side; in Christian architecture, a church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica, usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other

the masonry blocks that fill the area between the ribs of a groin vault

a recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a Roman basilica or at the east end of a church

a beam used to span an opening

vertical channeling, roughly semicircular in cross-section and used principally on columns and pilasters