The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · E

Emplekton

Also called diatonos, diatonoi, through-stone

The Greek method of building thick walls with the stones of the two faces bonded through the thickness by headers and through-stones (diatonoi), rather than as two skins with a loose filling.

See also: Isodomum, Header

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Walls and Openings.

Nearby in the glossary

Duck · Eaves · Echinus · Egg-and-dart · Enfilade · Engawa · English bond · Entablature