A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 264
features whichwe take as being Greek in origin,either from tradition or by strong in-herent probability. The dispositionto build around the open court, whichstill exists in the Mediterranean lands,in other subtropical and in all tropicalcountries, was universal in Greece andin Italy. The Roman… … HOUSE partial roof. (See Atrium ; Caviedium; Com-pluvium ; Implnviuin.) As larger houses werebuilt, other courts were added, and this in cityas well as in country, until much later times.Thus, a second and larger atrium, often calleil bythe generic name peristylium, with a large cisternin the…
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