The Acadian style of the mid to late 1700s is the most primitive type of plantation and it appears, at times, almost too simple. This style of southern plantation clearly exhibits the early dominance of form and function. The wide galleries, elevated living spaces, and centralized hallway plan appear in almost all later adaptations of this style.
			An herb plant of the Mediterranean region whose stylized leaves form the decorative motif on column capitals of the Corinthian and Composite Orders and elements of classical architecture.
			Large, hand made, roughly molded, sun-dried clay bricks of varying sizes used for building by the Spanish in the Southwest.
			The nature of art and the philosophical criteria for artistic judgment.
			Before the Civil War in America.
			The lowest of the three main components of a classical Greek or Roman entablature.
			A composition of elements that is not arranged identically to a central axis; a disproportionate configuration.
			A court or central courtyard open vertically to the sky and surrounded by an arcade or colonnaded walk.
			The space within the pitched roof of a house.