Architrave
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The term can also apply to all sides, including the vertical members, of a frame with mouldings around a door or window. The word "architrave" has come to be used to refer more generally to a style of mouldings (or other elements) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening, where the horizontal "head" casing extends across the tops of the vertical side casings where the elements join (forming a butt joint, as opposed to a miter joint).[3]
Classical architecture
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Metaphorical use
The term architrave has also been used in academic writing to mean the fundamental part of something (a speech, a thought or a reasoning), or the basis upon which an idea, reasoning, thought or philosophy is built.
Examples:
- "...the Mature Hegel – the Hegel of the Philosophy of Right – who becomes the architrave on which he (Honneth, ed.) constructs his social philosophy."[5]
- "to become the architrave of his theoretic construction"[6]
Indian architecture
In śilpaśāstra, the Hindu texts on architecture, the architrave is commonly referred to by its Sanskrit name uttara.[7] In Hindu temple architecture it is placed above the bracket (potika) of a pillar (stambha), which gives it extra support. The Indian entablature is called prastara.
Dravidian architecture recognizes several distinct types of architraves:[8]
- rounded (vṛttapotika)
- wavy (taraṅgapotika)
- flower shaped (puṣpapotika)
- bevel and tenon type (ādhārapotika)
- voluted (muṣṭibanda)
- figural (citrapotika)
See also
- Archivolt – expanded and elaborated architrave element
- Dolmen – Neolithic predecessor, megalithic tombs with structural stone lintels
- Lintel
- Post and lintel – architectural system with architraves-lintels
Footnotes
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 703.
- ISBN 978-965-221-013-5.
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Ching, Francis D.K. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 179, 186. ISBN 0-471-28451-3.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
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External links
- Media related to Architraves at Wikimedia Commons