Colonnade

A colonnade is a peristyle (Latin columna, column '), which has a straight entablature in contrast to the arcade.

History

Colonnades were already known as the Archaic period and were adopted in the second half of the 5th century BC for the Agora of Athens. They were called Stoics. Ancient systems such as the terraces supported by columns of Hercules Shrine in Palestrina ( Praeneste ) are notable examples. Even in Roman urbanism colonnades were an important architectural element. Lined by porticoes roads are especially characteristic of Roman towns founded in the Middle East.

Colonnades are used in urban Baroque and Classicism both as independent buildings as well as parts of buildings. World -known example of Baroque architecture are the four pillars deep Gian Lorenzo Bernini's colonnades, which enclose the elliptical part of the St. Peter's Square on two sides in front of the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Examples

In Central Europe colonnades were used in the re -emerging style of the 19th century, especially in the spa architecture (see the drinking halls of Baden -Baden, Lauterbach, at Putbus, Marienbad, Heiligendamm ). Karl Friedrich Schinkel discovered the colonnade as an architectural element of the humanistic educational ideal of romance again.

In Berlin in 1780 on the King Bridge at Alexanderplatz built by Carl von Gontard King colonnades on Kleist Park are since the beginning of the 20th century in the park, the best known. In the Moor Street are the only Berliner colonnades that still the original location are (since 1787), the Mohr colonnades by Carl Gotthard Langhans.