[30] Triglyph. Literally, “Three Cut.” The awkward upright ornament with two notches in it, and a cut at each side, to be seen everywhere at the tops of Doric colonnades, ancient and modern.
[31] Pediment. The triangular space above Greek porticoes, as on the Mansion House or Royal Exchange.
[32] [Appendix 15]: “Instinctive Judgments.”
CHAPTER III.
THE SIX DIVISIONS OF ARCHITECTURE.
§ I. The practical duties of buildings are twofold.
They have either (1), to hold and protect something; or (2), to place or carry something.
1. Architecture of Protection. This is architecture intended to protect men or their possessions from violence of any kind, whether of men or of the elements. It will include all churches, houses, and treasuries; fortresses, fences, and ramparts; the architecture of the hut and sheepfold; of the palace and the citadel: of the dyke, breakwater, and sea-wall. And the protection, when of living creatures, is to be understood as including commodiousness and comfort of habitation, wherever these are possible under the given circumstances.