Glossary of Architecture Flashcards

A series of arches, carried by columns or piers and supporting a common wall or lintel

An unroofed interior courtyard or room in a Roman house, sometimes having a pool or garden, sometimes surrounded by columns

An elongated or continuous semicircular vault, shaped like a half cylinder

-The termination of the nave of a basilica in the choir in a basilican church-A large semicircular or polygonal (and usually vaulted) niche protruding from the end wall of a building (East)
In the Christian church, it contains the altar & cathedra or throne of the bishop

Passage or open corridor of a church, hall, or other building that parallels the main space, usually on both sides, and is delineated by a row or arcade of columns or piers

The topmost zone of a wall with windows in a basilica extending above the aisle roofs. Provides direct light into the central interior space (the nave)

windows between the vaults that form the nave elevators uppermost level

The rectangular vestibule or entrance porch of a church
@ the main (usually western) entrance of a church
can also be an entrance porch with columns on the outside of a church

-The western arm of a basilican church-the central longitudinal space of a basilica, 2-3stories high, and usually flanked by aisles-extends from the main entrance to the transept of to the apse

-The north & south arms of a basilican church perpendicular to the nave- usually separating it form the apse
-structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church

Pre-Romanesque
evolved during Otto the Great's Found in Germany
Mid 10th-Mid 11th Century.
Borrowed from/influenced by inspiration from Carolingian & Byzantine

Pre-Romanesque
family dominate W. Euro politics
Late 8th and 9th Century.
emulate Roman architecture; Renaissance

Round arches
bacilica-like plan
thick walls
sturdy piers
-square supports often instead of columns (round)
-sometimes alternated w/ columns
piers alternated w/ columns,
few tiny window, no glass
Groin vaults
decorative arcades
symmetrical.
stone construction
massive building
large towers

Formed at the point at which 2 barrel vaults intersect at right angles

Groin vault w/ stone ribbing

vault in which the diagonal & transverse ribs compose a skeletal structure that supports the masonry between them

a narrow, projecting band on a ceiling or vault

usually structural, but sometimes merely decorativ

-The curving passageway behind the choir of a church, often used to connect the radiating chapels-Developed for use in pilgrimage churches, usually allows general passage from the nave around the east end of a church without giving access to the restricted areas of the choir and the alter.