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Architectural Studies. Tyler Wells, 2011. T-Z. Tabernacle. A canopied recess for a religious image or icon. Also, portable sanctuary in which the Jews kept the Ark of the Covenant. Tatami.
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Tabernacle • A canopied recess for a religious image or icon. Also, portable sanctuary in which the Jews kept the Ark of the Covenant. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tatami • A thick straw mat covered with smooth reeds and bound bands of silk, cotton, or hemp. Used as a floor covering and standard for room size in a traditional Japanese house. Architectural Studies T-Z
Telamon • A sculptured figure of a man used as a column. Also called an atlas. Architectural Studies T-Z
Temenos Wall • Wall built using an ancient Egyptian technique called pan bedding. Allowed walls to move without collapsing as the ground expanded and contracted due to flooding. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tepidarium • The room in a Roman bathing complex that had a bath of nearly room temperature water. Architectural Studies T-Z
Terrace • An open, often paved area connected to a house or building and serving as an outdoor living area. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tesserae • The small pieces of colored marble, glass, or tile used in mosaic work. Architectural Studies T-Z
Thatch • A material for covering a roof, as straw, rushes, or palm leaves, fastened together so as to shed water or provide insulation. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tholos • A stone-built subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a circular chamber covered by a corbelled dome and entered by a walled passage through a hillside. Also called beehive tomb. Architectural Studies T-Z
To • A Japanese pagoda enshrining Buddhist holy relics. Architectural Studies T-Z
Topiary • Clipped or trimmed into ornamental and fantastic shapes, or the work or art of such clipping. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tracery • Ornamental work of branchlike lines, especially the lacy openwork in the upper part of a Gothic window. Architectural Studies T-Z
Transept • The major transverse part of a cruciform church, crossing the main axis at a right angle between the nave and choir. Architectural Studies T-Z
Transom • Acrosspiece separating a doorway from a window or fanlight above it. Architectural Studies T-Z
Trefoil Arch • An arch having a cusped intrados with three round or pointed foils. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tribune • The bishop’s throne, occupying a recess or apse in an early Christian church. Architectural Studies T-Z
Triclinium • A formal dining room in an ancient Roman building, named for the three couches that were usually present to entertain guests. Architectural Studies T-Z
Triforium • An arcaded story in a church, between the nave arches and clerestory and corresponding to the space between the vaulting and the roof of an aisle. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tufa • A soft type of limestone that is common in Italy. Used by the Romans in many structural designs. Eventually replaced in architecture by marble. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tumulus • An artificial mound of earth or stone, especially over an ancient grave. Architectural Studies T-Z
Turret • A small tower forming part of a larger structure, frequently beginning some distance above the ground. Architectural Studies T-Z
Tuscan Style • A classical order of Roman origin, basically a simplified Roman Doric characterized by an unfluted column and a plain base, capital, and entablature having no decoration other than moldings. Architectural Studies T-Z
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Tympanum • The triangular space enclosed by the horizontal and raking cornices or a pediment; space between an arch and a door or window. Architectural Studies T-Z
Velarium • A canvas awning drawn over an ancient Roman amphitheater to protect the audience from rain or sun. Architectural Studies T-Z
Veranda • A large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house. Architectural Studies T-Z
Vermiculite • Mica expanded by heat into very light, wormlike threads, used as nonstructural lightweight aggregate and as loose-fill thermal insulation. Architectural Studies T-Z
Vestibulum • A fore-court or enclosed area at the front of a Roman house. Architectural Studies T-Z
Volute • A spiral, scroll-like ornament, as on the capitals of the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders. Architectural Studies T-Z
Wattle and Daub • A form of wall construction, consisting of wattles covered and plastered with clay or mud. Architectural Studies T-Z
Wigwam • An American Indian dwelling, usually of round or oval shape, formed of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or animal skins. Architectural Studies T-Z
Yurt • A tent-like dwelling of the Mongols, made of a circular wall of poles in arrangement with a conical roof, both covered by felt or animal skins. Architectural Studies T-Z
Ziggurat • Temple-tower in Mesopotamian architecture, built in diminishing stages of mud brick, culminating in a summit temple. Architectural Studies T-Z
Zoophorus • A frieze bearing carved figures of people or animals. Also called zophorus. Architectural Studies T-Z
