Oxford Index Browse

(1890–1953). Danish architect. One of the most accomplished of C20 Neo-Classicists, he designed the circular courtyard of Kampmann's Police Headquarters, Copenhagen (1919–24), and, with Hans Jørgen...

 (1910–77) Finnish architect, who cleverly combined the use of modern materials and methods of construction with a concern for creating a natural relationship between buildings and their environment.

null...

1 Ornament in the form of a staff with budding leaves.

2 Ornamented rod with a serpent twined around it, not to be confused with the caduceus.

1 Small abacus or abaculus.

2 Square border enclosing part or the entire pattern of a mosaic.

3 Tessera or abaculus in a mosaic.

4 Small tile.

[Ar]

The uppermost member of a capital, set atop a pillar, and, on classical buildings, in contact with the bottom of the entablature. The abacus resembles in form the flat slab on which it was...

Buttress or reinforcing wall.

Stone surface cut away or lowered, leaving a sculpted design in low relief (e.g. on the metope of a Greek Doric temple).

1 Anything that serves to throw daylight downward, or in a given direction, such as a sloped or bevelled cill, or splayed jambs.

2 Skylight, set in a sloping aperture.

[Gr.: ‘untrodden’].

An enclosure attached to a temple of Asklepios, where patients not in a state of ritual purity could receive the deity while asleep.

1 Inaccessible place.

2 Building containing trophies erected by Artemisia (fl. C4 bc) in Rhodes, closed to all but a select few.