EMICH ARTH100 Architecture Key Terms

Key Terms to know

Post and lintel construction

A horizontal beam (the lintel) supported by a vertical post at either land

Colonnade

A row of columns connected by beams

Classical Orders

Ways that columns are built

Doric order

Ionic order

Corinthian order

Façade

Any side of a building, usually the front or entrance

Pediment

The triangular space, situated above the row of columns

Cornice

The molding around the top of a building

Arches

Enables builders to move their posts further apart

Keystone

The top and center of the arch, exerts force on the voussoirs to hole the arch in place

Arcade

A row of arches

Vault

An arch that’s is extended

Barrel Vault

When the arch is extennded on deptj to create a tunnel

Groin Vault

An intersectoin of two barrel vaults

Dome

An arch rotated 180 degrees

Oculus

A round opening in the center of a dome