Glossary · T
Thermae
Also called baths, frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium
The great public baths of imperial Rome, with a sequence of cold (frigidarium), warm (tepidarium) and hot (caldarium) rooms, sweating rooms, exercise courts and gardens, planned symmetrically and roofed with vaults and domes.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Classical World.
A feature of Ancient Roman architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Temple-mountain · Tensegrity · Tensile structure · Thatch · Thermal bridge · Thermal mass · Tholos · Tholos tomb