Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Peristyle
PEAR i styleAn open space surrounded by columns
A colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court
Peri means "around" and style means "column"
Peristyle courtyard: A courtyard with a covered walkway all the way around it, with columns holding up the ceiling
Peristyle porch: A porch surrounded by columns
Peristyle temple: A temple that has columns all the way around
| Classical Roman architecture: Instead of surrounding their houses with large
lawns and gardens, the Romans created their gardens inside their domus. The
peristylium was an open courtyard within the house; the columns surrounding
the garden supported a shady roofed portico whose inner walls
were often embellished with elaborate wall paintings. Examples:
University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology model and Roman
house floor plan ------- "In Greek and Roman architecture a peristyle is a columned porch or open colonnade in a building that surrounds a court that may contain an internal garden. 'Tetrastoon' (Greek: 'four arcades') is another name for this feature." - Wikipedia: "Peristyle" |
Atrium: open space without columns
Colonnade: A range of columns supporting either arches or an entablature and usually one side of a roof
Court/courtyard: An area open to the sky and mostly or entirely surrounded by buildings or walls; a high interior usually having a glass roof and surrounded by several stories of galleries or the like.
Hypostyle:A building with a roof or (flat) ceiling supported by rows of columns.
Portico: A roofed entrance porch supported on at least one side by columns
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above:
