Vocab: Post Midterm | ARCH 141 - Architecture and Society I, Quizzes of Architecture

Download Vocab: Post Midterm | ARCH 141 - Architecture and Society I and more Quizzes Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Aedicule DEFINITION 1 Properly a canopied niche or shrine framed by two columns supporting an entablature and pediment, set in a temple containing a statue. TERM 2 Apse DEFINITION 2 A semicircular or polygonal extension to, or termination of, a larger rectangular space. TERM 3 Arcuated DEFINITION 3 A term applied to a building dependent structurally on the use of arches or the arch principle TERM 4 Atrium DEFINITION 4 In Etruscan/Roman architecture, an inner court open to the sky and surrounded by small rooms covered with tiled roofs sloping inwards to a rectangular opening In Early Christian, an open court in front of a church, usually a colonnaded quadrangle. TERM 5 Bay DEFINITION 5 A vertical division of the exterior or interior of a building marked not by walls but by fenestration, an order, buttresses, units of vaulting, roof compartments, etc. TERM 6 Cardo DEFINITION 6 The principal north-south street in an Ancient Roman town TERM 7 Decumanus DEFINITION 7 The principal east-west street in an Ancient Roman town TERM 8 Citadel DEFINITION 8 In military architecture, a fort with from four to six bastions. It was usually sited at a corner of a fortified town but connected with it. TERM 9 Crossing DEFINITION 9 The space at the intersection of the nave, chancel and transepts of a church; often surmounted by a crossing tower or dome. TERM 10 Cruciform DEFINITION 10 Shaped like a cross, as in the plan if a Christian church