Alexander Jackson Davis
(1803–92).American architect, one of the most imaginative of his generation. His first important design was Highwood, a house at New Haven, CT. (1829–31), which brought him recognition, and, as a ...
antepagment
(pl. ante-pagments, antepagmenta).1 Face of a jamb of an aperture, or a moulded architrave. Its top horizontal part, supercilium or antepagmentum superius is really a moulding over the lintel, and ...
anteris
(pl. anterides).1 Buttress, counter-fort, erisma, sperone, or spur supporting or strengthening a wall.2 Type of anta or pilaster, called sperone, more like a lesene than in Classical architecture.
anticum
1 Latin equivalent of pronaos, the space between the front of the cella and the colonnade of a portico.2 Gate or a front door, or a variety of porch in front of a main door.3 Temple-front.4 Anta, but ...
base
[from the Greek basis, ‘that on which one stands’]The lower portion of any structure or architectural feature. Also the lower part of an heraldic shield. See chief.
beak-moulding
Pendent fillet on the edge of a larmier, with a channel or curved groove behind, as on a Doric anta capital.
canton
Pier or other projection at an angle of a building, such as antae, columns, pilasters, or rusticated quoins. Any work of architecture with this condition is said to be cantoned, from the French ...
chaptrel
1 Capital of a pier supporting the springing or an arch or vault, or any capital engaged to a wall, such as those of an anta or pilaster.2 Impost.
giant Order
Classical Order of architecture, the pilasters or columns of which rise from the ground or plinth through more than one storey. Also called a Colossal Order. See also gigantic Order.
Gottlieb Bindesbøll
(1800–56) Danish architect.His Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen (1839–48), is a rebuilding of an existing structure with the addition of a new entrance wing. It is a free variation of the ...
henostyle
With one column, so henostyle in antis means with one column between antae. See also choragic.
Ithiel Town
(1784–1844).Prolific and influential American architect and engineer, he was a significant figure in the Greek and Gothic Revivals in the USA. He may have studied with Asher Benjamin and in 1810 ...
Louis Sullivan
(1856–1924)Widely known for his dictum ‘form follows function’ the American architect Sullivan's major contribution to design thinking in the United States and Europe was his integration of ornament ...
parastas
1 Part of the flanking wall of a Greek temple porch projecting beyond the front wall, finished with an anta.2 The space between two such flanking walls, outside the naos, also called the pronaos, so ...
parastata
1 Synonymous with anta with only very small parts of the return face exposed.2 Pilaster, again with small return-faces.
pilaster
A shallow pier or rectangular form projecting from a wall and, in classical architecture, conforming to one of the Orders and carrying an entablature. See engaged (column).
pilaster strip
Lesene or piedroit which, unlike an anta or pilaster, has no base or capital, has no entasis, and is not a true pilaster: it is a feature of Anglo-Saxon work, and with the plinths and corbel-table, ...
portico
Covered ambulatory consisting of a series of columns placed at regular intervals supporting a roof, normally attached as a colonnaded porch to a building, but sometimes forming a separate structure ...
prostyle
Building with a colonnade in front of it, usually a portico. A temple with a portico at each end is amphi-prostyle.
respond
Corbel, half-pier, or other architectural element engaged to a wall at the end of an arcade from which the first arch springs. In Classical architecture, an anta or pilasterlike motif where arcades ...
