Jose Marie Baisa

Gabriel Bryan Licao

Theory of Architecture 1

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1. Acropolis - a citadel or fortified part
of an ancient Greek city, typically
built on a hill.
2. Agora - (in ancient Greece) a public
open space used for assemblies and
markets.
3. Aisle a passage between rows of
seats in a building such as a church
or theater, an airplane, or a train.
4. Anthropometry - the scientific
study of the measurements and
proportions of the human body.
5. Arcade - a covered passageway with
arches along one or both sides.
6. Atrium - an open-roofed entrance
hall or central court in an ancient
Roman house.
7. Axis - an imaginary line that divides
something into equal or roughly
equal halves, especially in the
direction of its greatest length.
8. Basilica - a large oblong hall or
building with double colonnades and
a semicircular apse, used in ancient
Rome as a court of law or for public
assemblies.
 13. Caryatid - a stone carving of a
9. Beam - a long, sturdy piece of draped female figure, used as a pillar
squared timber or metal spanning an to support the entablature of a Greek
opening or part of a building, usually or Greek-style building.
to support the roof or floor above.

14. Cathedral - the principal church of a

10. Bema - the altar part or sanctuary in diocese, with which the bishop is
ancient and Orthodox churches. officially associated.

15. Cella - the inner area of an ancient

temple, especially one housing the
11. Buttress- a projecting support of hidden cult image in a Greek or
stone or brick built against a wall. Roman temple.

12. Campanile - an Italian bell tower, 16. Cenotaph- a tomblike monument to

especially a freestanding one.
someone buried elsewhere,
especially one commemorating
people who died in a war.
17. Clerestory- the upper part of the nave,
choir, and transepts of a large church,
containing a series of windows. It is clear of
the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the
20. Dolmen - a megalithic tomb with a
central parts of the building. large flat stone laid on upright ones,
found chiefly in Britain and France.
* the windows in the clerestory of a church
or similar windows in another building.

*a raised section of roof running down

the center of a railroad car, with small
windows or ventilators .

21. Dome- a rounded vault forming the

roof of a building or structure,
typically with a circular base.

18. Collonade- a row of columns

supporting a roof, an entablature, or
arcade.
a row of trees or other tall objects.

22. Entasis - a slight convex curve in the

shaft of a column, introduced to
correct the visual illusion of
concavity produced by a straight
shaft.

19. Corridor - a long passage in a

building from which doors lead into
rooms.
23. Ergonomics - the study of people's 26. Flying Buttress - a buttress slanting
efficiency in their working from a separate pier, typically
environment. forming an arch with the wall it
supports.

27. Gestalt-
24. Faade - the face of a building, symbolic configuration or pattern of
especially the principal front that elements so unified as a whole that it
looks onto a street or open space. s properties cannotbe derived from a
simple summation of its parts.

25. Fenestration - the arrangement of

windows and doors on the elevations
28. Golden Section - the division of a
of a building. line so that the whole is to the greater
part as that part is to the smaller part
(i.e., in a ratio of 1 to 1/2 (5 + 1)), a
proportion that is considered to be
particularly pleasing to the eye.
 32 Keystone- a central stone at the
summit of an arch, locking the whole
together.

29. Hall a large room for meetings,

concerts, or other events
33. Lintel- a horizontal support of timber,
stone, concrete, or steel across the top
of a door or window.

30 Intercolumniation- the distance

between two adjacent columns.

34. Mastaba- an ancient Egyptian tomb

rectangular in shape with sloping sides
and a flat roof, standing to a height of
1720 feet (56 m), consisting of an
underground burial chamber with
rooms above it (at ground level) in
31 Jami Masjid- refers to the
which to store offerings.
main mosque of a town, city or
village, and is usually the place of
gathering for Eid prayers and Friday
prayers. These are sometimes called
Congregational mosques or Friday
mosques.

35. Megaron- In ancient Greece and the

Middle East, an architectural form
consisting of a porch, vestibule, and
 large hall with a central hearth. monument or landmark.

36. Mezzanine- a low story between two

others in a building, typically between
39. Oriel - a projection from the wall of a
the ground and first floors.
building, typically supported from the
ground or by corbels.

37. Necropolis- a cemetery, especially a

large one belonging to an ancient city.

40. Parapet- a low protective wall along

the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony.

38. Obelisk- a stone pillar, typically

having a square or rectangular cross
section and a pyramidal top, set up as a
41. Pediment- the triangular upper part of 44. Pillar - a tall vertical structure of
the front of a building in classical stone, wood, or metal, used as a
style, typically surmounting a portico support for a building, or as an
of columns. ornament or monument.

45. Podium - a small platform on which a

42. Pergola- an archway in a garden or person may stand to be seen by an
park consisting of a framework audience, as when making a speech or
covered with trained climbing or conducting an orchestra.
trailing plants.

43. Piazza - a public square or

marketplace, especially in an Italian
46. Porte-cochere- a covered entrance
town.
large enough for vehicles to pass
quithrough, typically opening into a
 courtyard.

50. Room - space that can be occupied or

where something can be done,
47. Post - a long, sturdy piece of timber or especially viewed in terms of whether
metal set upright in the ground and there is enough.
used to support something or as a
marker.

48. Pylon- an upright structure that is used

51. Rustication- type of decorative
for support or for navigational
masonry achieved by cutting back the
guidance, in particular.
edges of stones to a plane surface
while leaving the central portion of the
face either rough or projecting

49. Quoin- an external angle of a wall or

building
 markedly.

55. Tholos - A dome-shaped tomb of

52. Sull-
ancient Greek origin, especially one
dating from the Mycenaean period.

53. Steeple - a church tower and spire. 56. Tokonoma - (in a Japanese house) a
recess or alcove, typically a few inches
above floor level, for displaying
flowers, pictures, and ornaments.

54. Tectonics- in architecture is defined as

"the science or art of construction,
both in relation to use and artistic
design."
57. Torii- the gateway of a Shinto shrine, 60. Tumulus- an ancient burial mound; a
with two uprights and two crosspieces. barrow.

58. Trellis- a framework of light wooden

or metal bars, chiefly used as a support 61. Tympanum- a vertical recessed
for fruit trees or climbing plants triangular space forming the center of
a pediment, typically decorated.

59. Truss - a framework, typically

consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, 62. Vault- a roof in the form of an arch or
supporting a roof, bridge, or other a series of arches, typical of churches
structure. and other large, formal buildings.
 63. Veranda- a roofed platform along the
outside of a house, level with the
ground floor.

64. Villa - (especially in continental

Europe) a large and luxurious country
residence.

a large country house of Roman

times, having an estate and consisting of farm
and residential buildings arranged around a
courtyard.
.

65. Zigurrat- (in ancient Mesopotamia) a

rectangular stepped tower, sometimes
surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are
first attested in the late 3rd millennium
BC and probably inspired the biblical
story of the Tower of Babel (Gen.
11:19).