Architrave

Architrave
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ARCHITRAVE (from Lat. arcus, an arch, and trabs, trabem, a beam), an architectural term for the chief beam which carries the superstructure and rests immediately on the columns.

Architrave window: with consoles or cornice; Example, with consoles: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
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Illustration above: Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum (Definiton #1) ...

architrave - the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns
entablature - (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof ...

Architrave
In Classical architecture, the architrave is lowest part of an entablature. Learn about the architrave and related building parts found in Classical architecture.
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architrave - ornamental moldings around doors, windows or other openings
archivolt - ornamental moldings on the face of an arch
artistic concrete - concrete blocks molded to imitate stone, inexpensive substitute using concrete since 1870 ...

Architrave - A frame fitted around a door or window to hide the gaps between the lining and wall.
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Architrave: the horizontal element spanning the interval between two columns
Attic: the upper story, situated above the cornice, which served as basis for statuary, especially on monumental arches ...

Architrave: Joinery moulding around window or doorway.
Asbestos: Fibrous mineral used in the past for insulation. Can be a health hazard specialist advice should be sought if asbestos (especially blue asbestos) is found.

architrave:
the lowermost part of an entablature, resting directly on top of a column
ashlar:
a squared block of building stone ...

Architraves
the lowest member of an entablature; often adapted as a moulded enrichment returned round the jambs and head of a doorway or window opening.
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Architrave A moulding around a doorway or window opening. It usually covers the joints between the frame and the wall finish, thus hiding any shrinkage gaps which may occur.
Ashlar Squared and faced stone used as high quality finish.
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architrave - from Old French and Old Italian arch+trabs, "chief beam.

ARCHITRAVE The lowest sect ion of the entablature; also, a moulded frame around a door or window.
ARCUATED A description of a building incorporating arches.

ARCHITRAVE
Formalized lintel, the lowest member of the classical entablature. Also the moulded frame of a door or window (often borrowing the profile of a classical architrave).
ARRIS
Sharp edge where two surfaces meet at an angle.

architrave: the lowest of the three parts of an entablature, resting directly on the columns; also applied to moulded door or window surrounds. The Doric entablature usually includes triglyphs separated by panels called metopes.

architrave A horizontal beam or lintel, that rests on columns or piers; or the lowest portion of an entablature; or a decorative moulding around a door, a window, or an arch.

Architrave - The lowest division of the entablature in classical architecture . The main lintel or beam spanning from column to column. Concentric arch mouldings which make an archivolt are also considered architraves.

Architrave. The lowest of the three main elements of an entablature. Also a moulded frame around a door or window.

Architrave
In architecture, the lintel or flat horizontal member which spans the space between columns. In classical architecture it is the lowest part of an entablature, resting directly on the capital of a column.

architrave
ls Originally a simple, flat, structural lintel spanning an opening in a wall, it is th elowest part of the classical entablature. Subsequently a term used to describe any molded door or window frame.
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Architrave - Ornamental moulding around window or door openings. usually in timber and externally sometimes applied in render.
Arris - A sharp corner edge, where two planes join.

architrave: The lintel or flat horizontal member which spans the space between the columns; in classical architecture, the lowest member of an entablature.
See also colonnade.

Architrave
- the lowest part of the entablature. The term is also commonly used to describe a moulded surround to any opening, but is usually applied to a door or window opening.

architrave 1. The lowest part of a classical entablature.
2. A molding enframing an opening such as a window.
areaway The open space between a rowhouse and the sidewalk, usually beside the stoop.

Architrave - the main bean resting directly on top of a column; the lowest member of an entablature.
Archivolts - bands or moldings around an arches opening.
Ashlar - a type of hewn stone, generally rectangular and large in size.

Architrave
The architrave is the lowest element of the entablature, and rests on top columns.
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Architrave
The lowest part of an entablature resting on the capital of a column.
Ashlar
Stones hewn, squared, and smoothed for use in building, as distinguished from rough building stones.

ARCHITRAVE
Beam running on top of a row of columns; also, moldings around doors and windows.
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ARCHITRAVE - Joinery moulding around window or doorway.
ARTEX - Decorative texture coating for ceilings and walls.

Architrave
a moulding surrounding, or framing, a doorway or window opening
Arrow-loop or slit ...

Of an architrave (a formalized lintel), with side projections at the top. Also called an eared architrave.LunetteSemicircular window or blind panel.

architrave a term generally used for the molding around a door or window, and specifically used for the lowest level of the entablature, directly above the capital of a column.

ABACUS: the flat slab on the top of a capital ACROTERIA: statues or ornaments placed at the apex and the ends of pediments ARCH: the spanning of an opening by reasons other than that of a lintel ARCHITRAVE: the lintel extending from one column or ...

abacus A tablet placed horizontally on the capital of a column, aiding the support of the architrave.

The slabs were often carved with vegetal or animal patterns and the architraves with busts of God, the Virgin, and the saints. Figurative decoration on the templon was mainly concentrated on the architrave, initially with carved busts.

The vertical columns were used to support the beams called architraves. In order to form the ceiling, other beams were laid across the building with their ends on these architraves.

Concern for the profile of the building in space spurred designers towards perfection in the articulation of parts, and these parts, known today as the orders of architecture, became intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, ...

Entablature - Decorative moulding above the top of a Classical column, comprising architrave, frieze and cornice.
Entices - Convex curve in a column to correct for the optically concave effect of a column built straight.

Frieze - The section of an entablature between the cornice and the architrave.

Acroteria Decorative galvanised iron pieces attached to the corners of roof guttering Architrave The moulding around a door or window Attached Two or more structures joined together by a common wall Attic A room within the roof of a ...

IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Gable or hipped, low-pitch roof; dentil cornice emphasized with wide band of trim -- cornice represents classical entablature (includes cornice, frieze, architrave); porches: square or rounded columns (usually Doric), ...

A feature of Classical architecture, principally found in between the cornice and the architrave. This can be plain, or elaborately decorated / carved, dependent on the type of column order that is used.

The wide cornice band represents the entablature of classical greek architecture consisting of the frieze and the architrave. Greek or roman columns are usually present to support the porch.

Frieze - 1. The middle horizontal member of a classical entablature, above the architrave and below the cornice. 2. A similar decorative band in a stringcourse, or near the top of an interior wall below the cornice.

frieze (10) -- the architectural course between the architrave (which is supported by the columns/piers) and the cornice (Pedley, 354) ...

Entablature -- The band of moldings near the top of a facade, divided into cornice, frieze, and architrave.
Facade -- The face or front of a building.

In classical building architecture, the horizontal structure that is supported on the columns like a beam is called an entablature. The entablature is commonly divided into the architrave, the frieze and the cornice.

Cyma Recta
Cyma recta has a concave curve over a convex curve. It is essentially a cavetto over an ovolo and was traditionally used in Classical architecture in the cornice and architrave.

It is built out of dressed undersea or reef coral and set in a rectangular panel surrounded with an architrave carved in a cable pattern.

See also: Trave, Architecture, Cornice, Entablature, Classical