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of 17th-century Europe, where it forms the principal approach and ceremonial entrance to the building. Its open courtyard is presented like the classical permanent theatre set of a proscenium stage, such as the built Roman set of opposed
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Some 16th-century symmetrical Western European country houses built on U-shaped groundplans resulted in a sheltered central door in a main range that was embraced between projecting wings, but the formalized
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may be no more than an architectural screen, balancing the wing of the hĂŽtel opposite it, which would often contain domestic offices and a stable. On a grander scale, the
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can be used of any large building whether public or residential, ancient or modern, which has a symmetrical courtyard laid out in this way.
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of a large building. It is usually defined by two secondary wings projecting forward from the main central block (
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railings. A later development replaced the railings with an open architectural columnar screen, as at
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in the Pitti's case by embracing three sides of an existing public space. Other 16th century urban
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design (1627), were the first that reached forward from a central block to create a
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On a condensed, urban scale the formula is expressed in Parisian private houses,
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In densely built cities disposed on a rigorously democratic grid plan such as
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secreted behind. In a cramped site, one of the flanking walls of the
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Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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was laid out in just this manner, among the first Paris
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Index

Cour d'Honneur
Court of Honor (disambiguation)

Louis Le Vau
ChĂąteau de Versailles
French
German
forecourt
corps de logis
Palace of Versailles
Blenheim Palace

corps de logis
palaces
mansions
Palladio
Teatro Olimpico
wrought iron
gilded
Palais Royal
Schönbrunn Palace
Alexander Palace
Henry Holland
Ionic screen
Carlton House
Baroque
Palazzo Pitti
Palazzo Farnese
Carlo Maderno
Palazzo Barberini

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