dome: A hemispherical vault. See also semi-dome, squinch, pendentive
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Eglise de Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre.
Buckminster Fuller, a teacher at Black Mountain College, built the first geodesic dome, which is a vaulted structure made of lightweight materials that form interlocking polygons.
Dome
A generally hemispherical roof or vault; An arch rotated 360 degrees on its vertical axis.
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dome - In architecture, a hemispherical [like half a ball] vault or ceiling over a circular opening. Theoretically, it is an arch rotated on its vertical axis. It rises above the central part of a building.
dome A roof generally in the shape of a hemisphere or half-globe.
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electronic media Means of communication characterized by the use of technology, e.g., radio, computers, e.g., virtual reality.
Dome of St. Peter's Basilica
Michelangelo's crowning achievement as an architect was his work at St. Peter's Basilica, where he was made chief architect in 1546.
Dome (Cupola). Curved or spherical vault (may also be semi-circular with an oval section) mainly found in religious buildings.
dome A generally hemispherical roof or vault. Theoretically, an arch rotated 360 degrees on its vertical axis.
The Dome of Florence Cathedral,
designed by Filippo Brunelleschi
(1377-1446), was a public symbol
of Florentine superiority during
the early Italian Renaissance.
See: Renaissance Architecture.
Dome of the Mausoleum of Sultan Kayt Bey, Cairo, 1472-74.
This is a splendid example of the so-called "florid" dome,
from one of the oldest and most important centres of Islamic art in the Mediterranean.
Dome House, Florida, United States
Air Force Academy Chapel, Colorado, United States
Shoe House, Pennsylvania, United States ...
A dome-shaped growth on the trunk of a paduak tree, which are native to southeast Asia.
Amorphous
In ceramics refers to without specific form.
The arch, the dome, and the flying buttress as architectural motifs were first used by the Romans.
The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (1968)
Bates, Milton J. Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self (1985)
Beckett, Lucy. Wallace Stevens (1974)
Beehler, Michael. T.S.
dome A roof generally in the shape of a hemisphere or half-globe.
edition In printmaking, the number of images authorized by the artist made from a single plate.
electronic media Means of communication characterized by the use of technology, e.g.
The Romans also developed the use of the arch, the vault and the dome, and discovered concrete, which all allowed for a much grander architecture, ...
(The "Ill-governed Town" is unfortunately almost ruined as a fresco.) This is indicated by the dome and campanile of the cathedral in the top left-hand corner; ...
Lantern: A relatively small structure crowning a dome, roof, tower, frequently open to admit light to an enclosed area below.
Lapis Lazuli: From the Latin for stone of blue.
The cross-section shows how the walls of the dome became thinner as they reached the oculus, preventing collapse from the weight. The invention of coffers (recessed blocks) also achieved this aim.
Clear in the distant landscape are the Palazzo Vecchio, center of the city administration; Brunelleschi's huge cathedral dome; and the campanile designed by Giotto.
apse A semicircular projection, roofed with a half-dome, at the east end of a church behind the altar. Smaller subsidiary apses may be found around the choir or transepts. Also known as an exedra. The adjective is apsidal.
Niche Buttressed Square - A variant of the quatrefoil, the niche-buttressed square has four salient apses in the middle of the four walls of a square. A dome is placed centrally over the walls so that these niches buttress the walls against the ...
coffer A recessed decorative panel in a ceiling, vault, or dome. Such a boring word, really. see lacunar.
corbel A kind of bracket composed of a single projecting block, or of several graduated projecting courses of masonry, providing a ledge.
Cupola : The turret which serves as the crown to the dome or roof of a structure.
Garth : The garden or court within a cloister, usually attached to or near a cathedral.
His life-long goal was to compete with the size of the dome of Hagia Sofia Church (Saint Sophia). He succeeded by 1/2 a meter. The Blue Mosque ended up as one of the most impressive architectural works in Ottoman history.
In 1913 King George V granted the Academy its Royal title, with the reigning monarch as its Patron, and by 1914 a major extension to the front of the building, including the dome and Walter Crane lunettes, was completed.
Of particular note was the construction and opening of the Grand Palais in 1900, a building which, although in the Beaux Arts tradition, contained an interior glass dome that clearly adopted the Art Nouveau decorative style.
Byzantine architects favored the central plan covered by a huge dome.
Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as Byzantium's.
time: Walter Gropius, Jacob Lawrence, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, John Cage, Alfred Kazin, Merce Cunningham, and Paul Goodman. Students found themselves at the locus of such wide ranging innovations as Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome, ...
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