ARCH 170A - Test #2

Ambo

Ambulatory

Axis Mundi

serving as the symbolic center of a sacred space or a cross/meeting of main two axis of roman city (decmanus maximus and cardo maximus)

Apsidal end

Arcade

Archivolt

Ashokan Pillar/Lat

freedtanding monolith pillar

Atrium

public heart and central open courtyard of an ancient Roman house (domus)

Colonnade

Balistrade

Ballcourt

Bay

Bailey

Barbican

Chevet

Nave (nef)

the central area of a church where the congregation sits or stands during services

Narthex

Sanctuary

Side chapel

Transept

Westwerk/castellum

Basilica church vs. Central Plan church

Bas-Relief

Bay, modular bay

Bimaristan

Blind arch

Buddha hall/Kondo

Cenote

Chatri

Chaitya Hall

Cinquefoil

decorative form made of five rounded lobes, often used in arches, windows, and tracery

Clerestory

a high section of wall containing windows placed above eye level to admit natural light and fresh air

Cushion capital/Echinus

a cushion like circular capital of a doric column

Corbelled dome

an architectural structure made by stacking horizontal layers of stone or brick so that each upper layer steps inward slightly past the one below it until they meet at the top

Cosmogram

Courtyard house elements

Crenolation

Damnatio memoriae

Dentals

Diapering

repeating geometric patterns

Diwan (or Divan)

Double shell structures (church and dome)

Dou

Gong

Dyarapalas

Fan Vault

Flying Buttress

Funnel

Gallery

Geomancy/feng shui

Groined vault

a vault formed when two barrel vaults meet at right angles or a ceiling feature made by the intersection of two barrel vaults at right angles

Hip and Gable Roof

Horseshoe Arch

a round arch that widens before rounding off

Hypostyle Hall

an interior space with a roof supported by rows of columns or pillars

Iconography

Imperial City Zone

Palace City Zone

Interlacing Arch(es)

Iwan

Japanese Asymmetry (concept)

Kiva

Keep or Donjon

Lierne Vault

Machicolation

Madrasa

Mandala

Mihrab

a place of focus that looks toward Mecca

Minaret

a tall tower in which a person gives the call to prayer; rises above the mosque complex

Minbar

in a mosque, the stairs on which the imam stands while giving a sermon

Martyrium

Muquarnas

Motte

One-point Perspective

Opus Reticulatum

an ancient Roman construction technique where a concrete core is faced with small, diamond-shaped or pyramid-shaped blocks of tuff (a soft volcanic stone) arranged in a diagonal grid that resembles a fishing net

Pagoda

Nandi

Mandapa

Garbhagriha

Pailou Gateway

Pendentive

Pilaster

a flat, rectangular pillar that slightly projects out from a wall

Point-load-system

Pointed Arch

Podesta

Portcullis

Pyramid

Qanat

Quions

Quatrefoil

Qibla Wall

the wall of a mosque that faces Mecca in which Muslims face when praying

Rammed Earth Construction/pise/banzhu

Rampart

Rib

Reventment

Lintel

Purlin

Strut

King Post

Romanesque

Rose Window