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Peripteral portico: portico that extends around two or more sides of a house
Examples from Buffalo:
Illustration above: Williams-Butler House ...

 


peripteral
Term applied to a temple or other structure where the columns of the front portico are returned along its sides as wings at the distance of one or two intercolumniations from the walls of the naos or cella.

Peripteral - Of a building, surrounded by a single row of columns.
Parthenon
Peristyle - A range of columns surrounding a building or open court.

Peripteral
Pertaining to a building surrounded by a row of columns on all sides. Image courtesy of Heather Russell ...

peripteral: descriptive of a building surrounded by a single row of columns.
peristyle: a row of columns surrounding a temple or court.

Peripteral
surrounded by a row of columns or peristyle.
Peristyle ...

Pseudo-peripteral: as peripteral, but with some of the columns engaged instead of free standing
Pteron: the colonnade extending the length of the temple ...

The basic rectangular plan was surrounded by a colonnaded portico of columns on all four sides (peripteral or peristyle) such as the Parthenon, and occasionally at the front and rear only (amphiprostyle) as seen in the small Temple of Athena Nike.

pseudoperipteral
pseudoprostyle
the analysis of the test results of free-vibration columniation apparatus for soil samples of six sorts including clay, silty clay, ...

It is also a peripteral temple, a temple with a columned porch on every side.

A corbelled turret or bartizan, square or round, frequently at an angle.PeripteralOf a temple: with a colonnade all round the exterior.PeristyleOn a classical building, a colonnade all round the exterior or an interior space, e.g.

as those to the north and south transepts of St Paul's Cathedral, and that which forms the west entrance of St Mary le Strand, is known as cyclostyle. The term porticus is used to distinguish the entrance portico in an amphiprostylar or peripteral ...

See also: Architecture, Temple, Classical, Colonnade, Roman

Architecture Period stylePeristyle

 
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