The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Equally irregular are the Riwaks, or porches, surrounding the hypaethral court. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The four Riwaks, or porches, of the Madinah Mosque open upon a hypaethral court of parallelogramic shape. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
As far as I could discover, the tradition has no foundation, and in old times there was no garden in the hypaethral court. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
But they must all be brought together in line before the grand portals of Nature's hypaethral temple will open to her chosen student. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
The stranger stands awe-struck before walls high towering without a single break, a hypaethral court severe in masculine beauty, a gateway that might suit the palace of the Titans, and a lofty minaret of massive grandeur. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
As usual in Al-Islam, it is a hypaethral building with a spacious central area, called Al-Sahn, Al-Hosh, Al-Haswah, or Al-Ramlah,7 surrounded by a peristyle with numerous rows of pillars like the colonnades of an Italian cloister. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Perhaps, therefore, they were hypaethral, like the temples of the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
Nor did the Romans construct hypaethral temples, or uncovered, with internal columns, like the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
I have called this imaginary temple hypaethral, because the master left nine openings in the flattened surface of the central vault. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
The exposed foundations of the eastern and western walls, where the torrent has washed away the northern enceinte, show that, after the fashion of ancient Egypt, sandstone slabs have been laid underground, the calcaire being reserved for the hypaethral part. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
A mighty architectural framework in the form of a hypaethral temple, suspended in the air on jutting pilasters, with bold cornices, projecting brackets, and ribbed arches flung across the void of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Sahn or the hypaethral portion of the Mosque. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
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