Pilaster
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PILASTER (Fr. pilastre, med. Lat. pilastrum, from pi/a, a pillar), in architecture, an engaged pier projecting slightly from the wall, ...
Pilaster
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Architecture
A shallow rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall and, in classical architecture, conforming with one of the orders ...
A pilaster is a rectangular support that resembles a flat column. The pilaster projects only slightly from the wall, and has a base, a shaft, and a capital. Greek Revival homes often have pilasters.
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Pilaster
A flat, rectangular, vertical member projecting from a wall of which it forms a part. Usually has a base and a captial and is often fluted.
pilasters:
a rectangular column with a capital and base set into a wall as an ornamental motif
podii:
a low wall serving as a foundation ...
PILASTER: a rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall, incorporates a capital, shaft and base, as one of the orders. Once used for stiffening, now more common for decoration. (IMAGE) ...
pilasters - A decorative, rectangular column attached to a wall, often so as to resemble a classical column.
plancier - The exposed underside of a projecting member (soffit)
porte-cochere - A covered entrance over a driveway ...
PILASTER A pilaster is a narrowly protruding column attached to a wall, giving the illusion of a real free standing support column.
POINTED ARCH An arch with a strong center point, usually seen in Gothic Revival style buildings.
Pilaster -- A square pillar attached, but projecting from a wall, resembling a classical column.
Porte-cochere -- A porch large enough to enclose wheeled vehicles.
Pilaster - A part of a wall that projects not more than one-half of its own width beyond the outside or inside face of a wall, acting as an engaged pier.
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A true pilaster is a rectangular element of vertical masonry which projects only slightly from the wall and has both a capital and a base. Contrast with column, pier
pillar ...
Pilaster A rectangular vertical member projecting only slightly from a wall, with a base and capital as will a column.
Pier A vertical, non-circular masonry support, more massive than a column.
Pilaster
a shallow pier of rectangular section attached to a wall.
Podium ...
Pilaster - A rectangular column projecting slightly from a wall.
Porte cochere - Porch roof projecting over a driveway.
Portico - A small porch composed of a roof supported by columns, often found in front of a doorway.
Pilaster
A vertical, rectangular feature projecting slightly from a wall, its form imitating a classical column with a base, shaft and capital.
Porte-Cochere ...
PILASTER A rectangular column applied to a wall and usually in a classical order.
PINNACLE A conical ornament surmounting a gable or buttress in medieval architecture.
PORTE-COCHÈRE A porch or portico designed to admit a carriage.
Pilaster - Shallow pier used to buttress a wall.
Pinnacle - Ornamental crowning spire, tower, etc.
Piscina - Hand basin with drain, usually set against or into a wall.
Pilaster: Pilasters are two-dimensional (flat) ornaments which represent columns. They occur very commonly in 18th- and 19th-century door surrounds.
pilaster A shallow pier or a rectangular column projecting only slightly from a wall. Primarily decorative.
plinth A block used as the base of a column or other upright support.
polychrome ornamented in multiple colors.
pilaster: a shallow decorative pier resembling a flattened column and projecting very slightly from the wall surface.
pilotis: stilts or pillars carrying the weight of a building in such a way as to raise it off the ground.
Pilaster-strip. Flat column, slightly projecting from a wall. Has a purely decorative function.
pilaster - a flat-faced representation of a column, projecting from a wall.
pilaster - a rectangular column projecting slightly from a wall. In classical architecture it conforms with the order used. (p. 44 - on the left and right sides, and right behind the portico columns of the facade).
Pilaster
Architectural term for a flattened column attached to a facade for decoration rather than structural support.
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Pilaster
a flattened, rectangular version of a column, sometimes load-bearing, but often purely decorative.
Pillar ...
Pilaster
In architecture, a flat, rectangular column (sometimes fluted) with a capital and base, that is attached to or set into a wall and which projects only slightly from that wall.
Pilaster
A rectangular column that projects only slightly from a wall.
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Pilaster
- the flat version of a column, consisting of a slim rectangle projecting from a wall; used also of plain piers or pilasters without classical orders which are more correctly termed pilaster strips.
Pilaster - column-like features carved into a building. A pilaster is a column façade.
Rise - the vertical distance between the spring line and the key stone of an arch or vault.
Sill - the base or support at the bottom of a niche or window.
pilaster - a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached ...
Pilaster
A flattened, shallow column or pier projecting from a wall. It usually has a base, shaft, and capital but is decorative rather than structural.
pilaster - a flat form of a pillar or column applied to a wall and used as decoration
pitch - the degree of slope of a roof, usually given in the form of a ratio, such as 6:12
porch - a roofed exterior space on the outside of a building ...
PILASTERSflattened column-like feature set against corners of house for stability or decoration. Also called "corner" boards.
PORTICOporch with columns and pediment ...
pilaster An engaged pier or pillar, often with capital and base.
pitched Sloping, especially referring to a roof.
plinth A platform base supporting a column or pilaster.
column, pilasters, and arcades.
main section is bracketed by narrower end bays, more of less of equal height.
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Simplified pilasters, usually applied to the ends of the enclosing walls of a portico (called in antis).Antefixae
Ornaments projecting at regular intervals above a Greek cornice, originally to conceal the ends of roof tiles.Anthemion ...
Anta - A pilaster of which the base and capital do not conform with the order used elsewhere on the building; it is usually placed at the ends of the projecting walls of a temple portico or pronaus.
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 ...
Bay - A principal area or division in the architectural arrangement of a building- The divisions may be marked by fenestration, buttresses or pilasters in elevation; or roof structure in plan.
The Doric engaged pilasters holding the portico on the building side are also fluted but otherwise unadorned and very imposing. The Georgian style was one of substance and solidity.
Buttery: Next to the kitchen, a room from where wine was dispensed; Room for the service of beverages Buttress: Wall projection for extra support; flying - narrow, arched bridge against the structure; pilaster - gradually recedes into the structure ...
capital a carved or molded decorative head to a column or pilaster, denoting one of the five architectural orders.
Lombard band A decorative feature of some Romanesque architecture, originating in Lombardy, consisting of a row of small blind arches divided by vertical pilasters. louver (spelled louvre in British English).
the center of a volute FACADE: the front of face or a building, emphasized architecturally FINIAL: a formal ornament at the top of a canopy, gable, or pinnacle FLUTING: shallow, concave grooves running vertically on the shaft of a column, pilaster, ...
In Sant' Eustorgio at Milan (c. 900) we find evidences that transverse arches were thrown from each pier of the arcade to the aisle wall, so necessitating the addition of a flat pilaster to each pier to take the spring of the arch.
Pilasters to sides of doors (may have pediment)
Classical one or two story columns
Full-height entry porch(commonly with pediment)
Early classical revival house plans are rare in its existance today and is located mainly in the southern states.
The Florentine architect Leon Battista Alberti, in his design for the Palazzo Rucellai (1446-1451), incorporated three superimposed classical orders into the façade, much as in the Roman Colosseum, except that he used pilasters instead of ...
It consists of a central light with semicircular arch over, carried on an impost consisting of a small entablature, under which, and enclosing two other lights, one on each side, are pilasters.
On the first level Doric columns, on the second Ionic, on the third Corinthian and the top story has Corinthian pilasters.
Classical detailing--columns, pilasters, heavily molded wooden entablatures (horizontal trim under roofs and over doors), and pediments--defines the style in houses, churches, stores, and other public buildings.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Renaissance-inspired classical symmetry, two rooms deep, two rooms high (Four over Four plan), central or end chimneys, classical detailing, transom lights, pilasters around door.
The outer walls of the temenos still survive and are distinguished as large blocks of dressed masonry with pilasters set at intervals into the side.
A paneled front door was most often centered, accented by decorative pilasters and crowned with a pedimented entablature. A transom light could be found either above the door or within the top of the door.
Pilaster - A square column, partly built into, partly projecting from a wall.
Pile - A large stake or cylinder driven into the earth to support foundations
Pile Dwelling - A house built on piles..
Nave elevation: nave arcade, triforium, and clerestory. Note the use of pilaster forms to articulate the divisions in the triforium and clerestory.
St. Lazare at Autun: built between 1120 and 1146.
CAPITAL
Top part of a column or pilaster.
CAST IRON
Molten Iron that is poured into a mold to achieve a design.
Pilasters and architectural pillars enrich a room to its full elegance. The Corinthian column is highly recommended when looking for the perfect upgrade or perfect design to represent a highly sophisticated home.
The top, head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster. Very often ornately decorated.
Cartouche.
An opening or shrine, often containing a statue, framed by a pair of pilasters or columns placed against a wall.
AISLE ...
Monumental classical ornamentation, including balconies, colossal columns, pronounced cornices, balustrades, decorated pilasters
Grand stairways of marble with wrought-iron railings, designed for theatrical entrances at social events ...
 See also: Architecture, Classical, House, Pilasters, Brick
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