Barrel Vault 

taking a rounded arch and take it back into space and it creates a tunnel-like arch

Groin Vault 

is a intersection of two barrel vaults at a right angle. Resulting in a space in which where you can enter in from each side 

Basilica    

- Roman Basilica is a mulitie purpose civic buildings. Long reqtangular struture

Nave    

the main gathering space, central space. There is no seating

Concrete the Romans invented it

Aggregate (filler rubble gravel) + Binding Agent (Sane Lime water)

            Polzzolanda = Volcanic sand

Rotunda

Tetrarchy    

Stonework or woodwork forming a pattern in the open space of windows or applied to wall surfaces. In plate tracery, a series of openings are cut through the wall. In bar tracery, mullions divide the space into segments to form decorative patterns.

Spolia 

Fragments of older architecture or sculpture reused in a secondary context. Latin for “hide stripped from an animal.”

Syncretism

A process whereby artists assimilate and combine images and ideas from different cultural traditions, beliefs, and practices, giving them new meanings.

Central Plan

Any structure designed with a primary central space surrounded by symmetrical areas on each side, e.g., a rotunda.    

Longitudinal plan 

Any structure designed with a rectangular shape and a longitudinal axis. In a cross-shaped building, the main arm of the building would be longer than any arms that cross it.     

Ambulatory    

The passage (walkway) around the apse in a church, especially a basilica, or around the central space in a central-plan building

Atrium    

An unroofed interior courtyard or room in a Roman house, sometimes having a pool or garden, sometimes surrounded by columns. Also: the open courtyard in front of a Christian church; or an entrance area in modern architecture.

Clerestory    

- In a basilica, the topmost zone of a wall with windows, extending above the aisle roofs. Provides direct light into the nave    

Narthex    

The vestibule or entrance porch of a church    

Justinian I and Theodora    

Justinians wife. They try to convey they are the humanified version of god. They were never in the church. That needed the cognation to know that they are powerful and what they did for the church 

Squinch    

horizontal slap of stone fitted into the cornervs. Pendentive – the meeting space of the two rounded arches

Squinch    

horizontal slap of stone fitted into the cornervs. Pendentive – the meeting space of the two rounded arches

Icon    

image of a holy person, but it functions as a gateway to connect you to the devein

Pantokrator    

All mighty, Christ almighty

Iconoclasm    

image Breaking, two periods between 754-843

Siddhartha Gautama (Shakyamuni Buddha) (5^th c. BC) 

Stupa    

Mandala

Axis mundi (axis of the world)- 

connecting vertically heaven to earth

Torana

Urna 

the mark in the middle of buddhas forehead

Ushnisha    

cranial bump, he gets it when he gets enlighten. NOT A BUN lol

Mudra 

– he engages in different number of hand gestures and all of them have a different meaning