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Pilotis

Scope note

Use for ground-level columns or piers, either external or externally visible, which create a feeling of openness beneath an elevated building mass, as in the architecture of Le Corbusier and his followers.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000965

Equivalent Terms used

piloti

Created

13yrs ago

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