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Mughal Architecture Notes

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Basic Architectural Terms

Post and Lintel or Trabeated


System of Architecture
Dolmen
Trabeated Hindu Temple
Architecture
Column: An upright member,
circular in plan
Base, Shaft and Capital
Pier: A solid masonry support
as distinct from a column
Piers supporting nine-cusped arches
Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture

• The dominant elements were:

• The Arch

• The Dome

• The Minaret
Corbel Arch
Corbel Arch

• Masonry built over a wall opening by


uniformly advancing courses from each side
until they meet at a midpoint
• The stepped reveals may be smoothed, even
arcuated, but no arch action is effected—not a
true arch
True Arch
Voussoir
• Each unit of stone in an arch or vault is known as a
voussoir
• There are two specified voussoir components of an
arch: the keystone and the springer
• The keystone is the center stone or masonry unit at
the apex of an arch, often decorated, embellished
or exaggerated in size
• The springer is the lowermost voussoir, located
where the curve of the arch springs from the
vertical support of the wall or pier
Ornamental Brackets
Bracket is a short piece or combination of pieces, generally more or less
triangular in outline, and projecting from a wall or other surface
Jahangir’s Quadrangle, Lahore Fort
Chajjā or Projected Eave
supported on Brackets
Jharoka
or an oriel is a bay window that
projects from an upper floor of a
building
Jharoka: a window or balcony
from which the emperor
displayed himself to his subjects
finial

Dome in relief
chajja

Resting on brackets

Jali parapet

brackets
Jali: pierced carved stone screen
Battlemented Parapet:
An indented parapet, formed by a
series of rising parts called cops
or merlons, separated by
openings called crenelles or
embrasures
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore
Parapet with munabbat kārī/relief work
Ogee arch topped by a chukka flower-bud with
sunflowers in the spandrels
Vegetal decoration at the springer
Blind niches
Dados
Arches

Coved ceiling: A ceiling


formed in a coved or
arched manner at its
junction to the side walls
Deep niches/taqcha
cluster of small decorative
wall-niches
Marble Relief work on
Dados
Red Fort, Agra

• Faceted shaft

• Colored stone inlay in


marble/Parchin Kari or pietra dura

• Capital: The top of a column or pillar

• Muqarnas: concave elements,


usually arched used for capitals of
columns

• Brackets
Baluster
Sarw-andām sutūn: Cypress
bodied column
column with a tapering shaft
forming a bulb at its foot
Chajjā or Projected Eave
supported on Brackets
Kunda: shallow water basin usually in marble, sunk in the floor in the palace interiors,
decorously inlaid

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