antis: as in a portico in antis, which is recessed so that the columns are flush with the walls of the building on either side.
apron: the raised panel beneath a windows sill, sometimes shaped or decorated.
In Antis Columns are 'in antis" when they stand between square piers call anta.
Ionic Order A classical order distinguished by a capital with spiral scrolls, called volutes.
Jamb The straight side of a doorway or window.
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In Antis
The term used to describe columns placed between the ends of two walls, commonly projecting from the ends of the cella of a small Greek Temple. Image courtesy of Gayle Goudy Kochanski ...
Distyle in antis - In classical architecture, a Portico with two columns between pilasters or antae.
Distyle in antis
a portico with two (round) columns between (square) pilasters.
Doric ...
In antis
Of classical columns, set between pilasters or square columns of equal height, often within a portico.IndentShape chiselled out of a stone to receive a monumental brass.
Adorno (German), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Italian), Albertus Magnus (German), Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (French), Mohammed ibn Tarkhan al-Farabi (Arabian), Louis Althusser (French), Anaxagoras (Greek), Anaximander (Greek), Anaximenes (Greek), Antisthenes ...
"Around 1900, then," wrote architectural historian Peter Reyner Banham in his book Concrete Atlantis, "the action and the excitement were not in iron and steel but in concrete, ...
ANTA The end of a wall decorated by a pilaster. Columns in antis are columns between two antae, a customary arrangement for porticoes.
ANTEFIX A vertical ornament placed above the building's eaves.
A portico which has two columns between antae, known as distyle-in-antis.
diwan-i-aam
hall of public audience ...
Completion of 'The house of Atlantis' in Böttcherstraße (Bremen).
Böttcherstraße
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prostyle Characterized by free-standing columns that stand forward from a wall (contrasted with columns in antis).
Anta (-ae): pilaster forming the ends of the lateral walls of a temple cella; when the façade consists of columns set between two antae, the columns are said to be in antis ...
Distyle - portico which has two columns between antae, known as distyle-in-antis.
They are usually placed at the ends of a row of columns which are then said to be "in antis". Columns are usually fluted ie have concave grooves running the length of the shaft.
timbers, as no reliance could be placed on the walls built with unburnt brick or in rubble masonry with clay mortar. When between these winged walls there are columns to carry the architrave, so as to form a porch, the latter is said to be in-antis.
In its refinement and delicacy, Pontormo's style is different from Michelangelo's, whose art, nevertheless, influenced him. Pontormo's extreme sensitivity bordered on the eccentric, and in his personal life he was aloof and antisocial.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Classical, Pilaster, Greek
  
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