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Loggia

A gallery or room open on one or more sides, usually through an arcade or colonnade, either free-standing or set into a building. Brunelleschi’s Innocenti loggia and Palladio’s villa porticoes are loggias.

See also: Portico, Arcade

Rules that use the word

The bay as a cube. Make each bay of an arcade as wide as its columns are high and as deep as it is wide, so that the loggia is a row of equal cubes of space.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Proportion and Number, Columns in Company, Renaissance and Baroque.

A feature of Brutalism architecture.

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