Araeosystyle

Great West Door of St. Paul's Cathedral in London

Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.^[1]

Notes

1. Chisholm 1911, p. 312.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Araeosystyle". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.