Peristyle
A peristyle (the Greek is a gallery of columns going around outside or inside a building, outside its wall. What distinguishes the colonnade. The term peripteral is preferable for the outer colonnade.
The fourth century BC. AD saw the birth home of "representation" with the extension to the use of profane architecture Persian Seleucid the peristyle.
The Greeks were building including colonnades around their temples. The Romans were then copied this type of architecture for their religious buildings and government buildings.
The architect of the sixteenth century Italian Andrea Palladio was the first to use peristyles to mark the entry of homes. He was criticized for helping to install a confusion between sacred architecture and civil architecture. This device was often echoed by his followers (see Palladian ).
This structural element was then taken up by the architects neoclassical the nineteenth century to official buildings: the Palais Brongniart in France for example has.
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