In classical architecture, hypaethral describes a building with no roof and with columns forming a partial wall.
The term originates from Latin hypaethrus, from Ancient Greek ὕπαιθρος hupaithros ὑπό hupo- "under" and αἰθήρ aither "sky, air". It was described by the Roman architect Vitruvius in his treatise De architectura, written for the emperor Caesar Augustus probably about 15 BC.
In classical architecture, hypaethral describes a building with no roof and with columns forming a partial wall. The term originates from Latin hypaethrus...
The Yogini temples of India are 9th to 12th century roofless hypaethral shrines to the yoginis, female masters of yoga in Hindu tantra, broadly equated...
or decorum required for temples of Jupiter Tonans, that they are to be hypaethral or open to the sky. The 1st century poet Lucan also mentions the Temple...
attained enlightenment) was erected by Asoka himself. This Temple is hypaethral. Here the sanctity of the tree is indicated by umbrellas and garlands...
and elaborate carvings that attract scholarly attention. Major extant hypaethral (open air) temples of the 64 yoginis (Chausathi Jogan) in India built...
uncovered"—the monument has no cella. The Athenaeum called it "not only hypaethral, but hypaethral in issimo—and after the most extraordinary fashion", and remarked...
to that of Artemis, was never finished. It was dipteral, decastyle and hypaethral. Among its extensive ruins, two columns are still standing. This article incorporates...
basilicas of the period. Three examples of a basilica discoperta or "hypaethral basilica" with no roof above the nave are inferred to have existed. The...
The Hypaethral Temple, Philae, by Francis Frith, 1857; medium: albumen print, original size 38.2×49.0 cm; from the collection of the National Galleries...
statues, unusually arranged in a rectangle; it must originally have been hypaethral. Gadarmal Devi temple dates back to the 9th century. The architecture...
reservoirs Defensive wall Dome – List of Roman domes Forum Hippodrome Horreum Hypaethral Insula Monument – List of ancient monuments in Rome, List of monuments...
Ranipur-Jharial houses one among the five existing rare monuments of Hypaethral temples (temples without roofs) dedicated to 64 yoginis in India. The...
a building. Cleithral A covered Greek temple, in contradistinction to hypaethral, which designates one that is uncovered; the roof of a cleithral temple...
always in female form, and were worshiped in open groves (kavu). These hypaethral temples had trees, stone symbols of mother goddesses, or other naturalistic...
century CE Jharial, Bolangir A hypaethral temple for 64 yoginis Chausathi Jogini Temple 9th century CE Hirapur, Khurda Hypaethral temple for 64 Yoginis in the...
Siva Temple and Patneswari Temple. Ranipur-Jharial is famous for the Hypaethral Temple of sixty-four yoginis and for being a place of confluence of religious...
between the 1960s and 1980s, the complex consists of three warehouses, one hypaethral-reinforced concrete building, and three oil tanks. LSJZ5-17 Luos' Old...
Aten. This is an example of the domestic cult of the royal couple. The hypaethral chapel was located within the central hall. To the south of Panehesy's...
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