The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · L

Landing

Also called landings

A level platform at the top of a flight of stairs or between two flights.

Rules that use the word

The imperial stair. Make the stair of a palace a processional space: one broad flight rising to a landing, then turning back in two flights either side to arrive at the principal floor beneath a single great vault.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Stairs.

Nearby in the glossary

Külliye · Kuta · Laconicum · Lancet · Lantern · Latina · Lattice girder · Leaded light