ENGAGED COLUMN

In architecture, an 'engaged column' is a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, sometimes defined as semi or three-quarter detached. Engaged columns are rarely found in classical Greek architecture, and then only in exceptional cases, but in Roman architecture they exist in profusion, most commonly embedded in the cella walls of pseudoperipteral buildings
Engaged columns are distinct from pilasters, which by definition are ornamental and not structural.

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★ Decastyle

★ Hexastyle

★ Hypostyle

★ Octostyle

★ Peristyle

★ Portico

★ Tetrastyle

References

★ Stierlin, Henri ''The Roman Empire: From the Etruscans to the Decline of the Roman Empire'', TASCHEN, 2002

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