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This is a list of terms used in classical architecture.
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
- Diocletian (thermal) window
- 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
- Portico
- Portico types - tetrastyle, hexastyle, octostyle, decastyle
- Pronaos
- Prostyle
- Quoin
- Rustication (architecture)
- Stoa
- Suspensura
- Term (architecture)
- Tracery
- Triglyph
- Sima
- Stylobate
- Volute
Classical orders
Types of building
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
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