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This is a list of terms used in classical architecture.

Contents

Building elements

Classical orders

Types of building

See also

References

Building elements

★ Acroterion - ornament mounted at the apex of the pediment of a building

★ Aedicule

★ Apollarium

★ Aegis

★ Apse

★ Arch

★ Architrave

★ Archivolt

★ Ante-Fixae

★ Amphiprostyle

★ Bracket (architecture)

★ Capital

★ Caryatid

★ Cella

★ Coffer

★ Colonnade

★ Column

★ Cornice

★ Crepidoma

★ Crocket

★ Cupola

★ Decastyle

★ Dome

★ Eisodos

★ Entablature

★ Epistyle - see Architrave

★ Euthynteria

★ Exedra

★ Finial

★ Frieze

★ Gutta

★ Imbrex and tegula - interlocking roof tiles used in ancient Greek and Roman architecture

★ Keystone

★ Metope (architecture)

★ Naos - see Cella

★ Nave

★ Opisthodomos

★ Ornament (architecture)

★ Orthostates

★ Pediment

★ Peristyle

★ Pilaster

★ Plinth

★ Pronaos

★ Prostyle

★ Rustication (architecture)

★ Suspensura

★ Term (architecture)

★ Tracery

★ Triglyph

★ Sima

★ Stylobate

★ Volute

Classical orders

★ Classical orders

★ Composite order

★ Corinthian order

★ Doric order

★ Ionic order

★ Tuscan order

Types of building

★ Agora

★ Amphitheatre

★ Heroon

★ Odeion

★ Orchestra

★ Skene

★ Stoa

★ Theatre

★ Tholos

★ Treasury

See also

★ Architectural glossary

★ Classical orders

★ Forms in architecture

References

★ GrandTradition.net

★ "Greek Temple." The Macmillan Visual Dictionary. Unabridged Compact ed. 1995. ISBN 0-02-860810-0