Temple at Segesta, Sicily - Doric order
Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece - Ionic order
Maison Carrée Temple at Nimes, France - Corinthian order ...
Temple Front
2-3 stories
Greek and Roman temples inspired this style, which first appeared in the U.S. during the Greek Revival movement from 1820-1830s. These buildings were used for public, institutional, and religious purposes.
Temples and important public buildings in ancient Greece were constructed according to precise rules. Learn about the Classical Orders of Architecture.
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Temple
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A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur.
Temple of Hephaestus, Athens: western facade
The standard format of Greek public buildings is known from surviving examples such as the Parthenon and the Hephaesteum at Athens, Temple, ...
Temples which have a double range of columns in the peristyle, as in the temple of Diana at Ephesus....
Distyle
A portico which has two columns between antae, known as distyle-in-antis....
temple - an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes
architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; ...
Temple of Phidae
Hyperbolic paraboloid roof - A special form of double-curved shell, the geometry of which is generated by straight lines. This property makes it fairly easy to construct.
The Temple of Athena Nike in Athens, shown above, is one of the most famous Ionic buildings in the world. It is located on the Acropolis, very close to the Parthenon (shown in the Doric section above).
The temple front is attached to a fairly plain Georgian style building with a large double front door with elliptical fanlight and a similar design on the window above. The building is capped with an ornate cupola.
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Roman Temple (Temple of Diana), Exterior View, 1st Century CE, Evora (Portugal) ...
The Circular Temple located in the left of the picture is a building in the Corinthian style (capitals with acanthus leaves) has survived almost complete in its Augustan form.
The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture
Venice & the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500
The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC-AD 700 ...
Podium - Roman temples were often raised up on high masonry bases called podiums.
Pozzolana - A rust colored volcanic ash, found in the regions in central Italy around the town of Pozzuoli, which was a crucial component in Roman concrete.
pagoda : A temple or sacred building, typically in an Asian nation, usually pyramidal, forming a tower with upward curving roofs over the individual stories.
palisade : A timber defensive screen or fence.
ziggurat: a temple-tower, e.g. the Tower of Babylon, with stepped storeys linked by ramps.
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A History of Western Architecture, David Watkin, published by Laurence King, 1992 ...
order - Greek temple architecture was divided into three orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian), then the Romans added three more (Composite, Roman Doric, Tuscan).
pagodaThe word Pagoda came into English from Portuguese and may derive from the Persian butkada=temple for idols (a stupa). It is now used for a sacred Chinese or Indian building, or an imitation of such a building in a garden.
Among the earliest examples are those found in Egypt, generally built in the thickness of the walls, as in the pylons and temples; a remarkable example was found by Dr Arthur Evans in Cnossus, in Crete, consisting of a staircase in stone, 6 ft.
Unlike the Egyptian arrangement, in which columns are arranged within a walled structure, the Greek temple consisted of a sanctuary surrounded by columns, which articulated exterior space.
Greek architecture used the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders for building the temples. Structures were often built with stones or mud bricks.
"temple and wing" design, with temple front at center of house.
6. Somers, CT. First Congregational Church, c.1842.
7. Somers, CT. The Somers Inn.
8. Enfield, CT. Small "upright and wing" design.
9. northern Illinois.
Nor yet are the miracles which they maintain to have been done by means of their temples at all comparable to those which are done by the tombs of our martyrs.
a solid masonry support, as distinct from a column; the solid mass between doors, windows, and other openings in buildings PORTAL: a door or entrance PORTICO: a roofed space, open or partly enclosed, forming the entrance of the facade of a temple, ...
The mosque of Abu al-Hajjaj in Luxor is the most famous because of its position on the roof of the Temple of Luxor. The mosque is mostly a nineteenth-century construction but one of the two minarets dates to the eleventh century.
Among the great works now erected were temples, aqueducts, amphitheatres, magnificent villas, triumphal arches, monumental pillars, etc.
Pagoda - An eastern temple, esp. in the form of many storied, tapering tower.
Paint - To colour, to represent in colours, to describe, a colouring substance.
Painter - One who paints.
Palace - A royal house ...
The main body or enclosure of a classical temple, as distinct from the portico. Also called a naos.
Greek Revival houses were designed to resemble classical Greek temples.
Crepidoma - the base on which a classical temple sits.
Echinus - a convex moulding forming part of the capital in doric and ionic orders, below the abacus.
Entablature - the upper part of an order, consisting of cornice, frieze and architrave.
The city's premier commercial buildings of the era, the Masonic Temple (1920), now called Spring Field Banquet Center, at 501 N. Harbor Boulevard and the California Hotel (1922), now called Villa del Sol, at 305 N.
popular designs include temple-fronted buildings
another popular design is front gable plan. With this design, the house is placed on short-side facing street and the door is off centre because of narrow width of plan.
There he produced such works as the Tempietto (1502), a miniaturized classical tholos (round) temple set in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio; a series of private palaces including the so-called House of Raphael (destroyed in the 17th century); ...
Cella: the inner or main chamber of a temple
Chryselephantine: statuary in which the flesh is represented by ivory and the drapery of gold or gilded bronze; the cult statue in the Temple of Saturn is ivory.
Cella - a Greek term used of the holy area within a temple, usually where one worships.
Cistern - an underground area used to store water. Unlike a well, water does not naturally flow into a cistern from a subterranean source.
the main inner room of a temple, often containing the cult image of the deity.
Centering
the temporary wooden framework used in the construction of arches, vaults, and domes.
Chamber between the pronaos and the cella in Greek temples where oracles were delivered....
Cincture
Ring, list, or fillet at the top and bottom of a column, which divides the shaft from the capital and base....
Found on the Temple of Mars Ultar, this style of architectual column was adapted in the middle of the fourth century BC. Unspecific to any other column, the Corinthian order is accented by a more ornate footing called an Attic base.
in Classical architecture, a basis, usually solid, supporting a temple or other superstructure.
Portico
a covered entrance to a building, colonnaded, either constituting the whole front of the building or forming an important feature.
Exteriors were most commonly painted white or gray to imitate the marble of the Greek temples, although some exteriors were unpainted brick or stone.
Tuscan - Roman (order) supposedly derived from Etruscan Temples. Similar to Doric, it is the most utilitarian order, a squat column without ornamentation or fluting, associated with simple rural buildings, fortifications, ...
portico : roofed entrance to a house that is columned like a temple front
hip roof: a roof with sloping ends instead of verticle ends and sloping sides that meet at a ridge.
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PORTICO - A roofed entrance to a house that is columned like a temple front.
PREFABRICATION - The manufacture of whole buildings or components cast/assembled in a factory or off-site before placed in position.
The most elaborate Greek Revival style buildings resemble temples with their roof gables facing forward with monumental columned porticos across the front. Churches and courthouses have ornamented belfries or cupolas.
anta - a square pier terminating the end of a wall in Greek temple architecture. Columns are said to be "in antis" when they stand within a porch between antae.
Tabernacle. Niche or aedicule in the shape of a small temple containing a sacred image. Also used for the ciborium, receptacle in the centre of the altar for the Sacrament.
The triangular shape that usually sits on the top of columns on a temple or building’s front. Often filled with sculpture.
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In China and Japan, a tower, usually having several stories, built in connection with a temple or monastery.
Palmette
Fan-shaped pattern derived from the shape of a palm-tree leaf. Neo-classical motif.
PEDIMENT A gable finished with a horizontal moulding between the two lower corners, ultimately derived from Greek temples. A broken pediment has this horizontal moulding partially left open.
Ziggurat
In ancient Assyria and Babylonia, a tower in the shape of a stepped pyramid. It formed the base of a temple.
Pillars and columns are common, often expressed in temple-like entrances with porticos topped by pediments.
peristyle literally, surrounded by columns; a term for a temple or other structure enclosed in a colonnade. piano nobile the main floor of a building where the most important rooms would be located: literally "noble storey" in Italian.
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