Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The open spaces between the columns in a colonnade.
- noun The system by which the columns in a colonnade are spaced.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, the space between two columns, measured at the lower part of their shafts, usually taken as from center to center.
- noun The system of spacing between columns, particularly with reference to a given building.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
spaces between adjacentcolumns (of acolonnade ) - noun The
system of suchspacing
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word intercolumniation.
Examples
-
On each side, there are niches in the intercolumniation of the walls, together with pedestals and shafts of pillars, cornices, and an entablature, which indicate the former magnificence of the building.
-
At the centre, vertically under the gable, there should be room for three triglyphs and three metopes, in order that the centre intercolumniation, by its greater width, may give ample room for people to enter the temple, and may lend an imposing effect to the view of the statues of the gods.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
Let the columns be so placed as to leave a space, the width of an intercolumniation, all round between the walls and the rows of columns on the outside, thus forming a walk round the cella of the temple, as in the cases of the temple of Jupiter Stator by Hermodorus in the
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
Greeks solved it by reducing the width of the end intercolumniation, but later critics disliked this, and solved it by removing the end triglyph from the angle and placing it axial over the end column.
-
The pycnostyle is a temple in an intercolumniation of which the thickness of a column and a half can be inserted: for example, the temple of the Divine Caesar, that of Venus in Caesar's forum, and others constructed like them.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
The systyle is a temple in which the thickness of two columns can be placed in an intercolumniation, and in which the plinths of the bases are equivalent to the distance between two plinths: for example, the temple of Equestrian Fortune near the stone theatre, and the others which are constructed on the same principles.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
They are to be arranged so that one is placed to correspond to the centre of each corner and intermediate column, and two over each intercolumniation except the middle intercolumniations of the front and rear porticoes, which have three each.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
The construction will be diastyle when we can insert the thickness of three columns in an intercolumniation, as in the case of the temple of
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
Let the thickness of the columns at the bottom be two modules; an intercolumniation, five and a half modules; the height of a column, excluding the capital, fourteen modules; the capital, one module in height and two and one sixth modules in breadth.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
-
Those who make the number of columns double, seem to be in error, because then the length seems to be one intercolumniation longer than it ought to be.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
whichbe commented on the word intercolumniation
In architecture, the space or the system of spacing between columns in a colonnade. (From ArtLex)
June 4, 2008