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the room that refuses to pick a side between indoors and outdoors.
means A roofed gallery or porch, open on at least one side through a row of columns or arches, often built into the side of a building or facing a courtyard.
from From Italian 'loggia,' the same word that gives us 'lodge,' both tracing back through Old French to a Frankish root meaning a shelter or covered place — likely 'laubja,' a hut or arbor made of leaves and branches. So the elegant Italian colonnade and the humble forest lean-to are distant relatives, each a roof you can stand under while still feeling the open air.
- open secret
- A gallery open on at least one side via columns
- italian roots
- Borrowed from the same source as English lodge
- power move
- Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi displays sculpture for free
- climate hack
- Shaded airflow before air conditioning existed
- villa staple
- Palladio made them mandatory for Renaissance flexing
uffizi gallery loggia — florence renaissance arcade built 1560s housing classical sculptures and overlooking the arno
loggia dei lanzi — 14th-century open-air gallery in florence's piazza della signoria displaying michelangelo's david and cellini's perseus
loggia of raphael — vatican palace decorated corridor with renaissance frescoes by raphael and workshop, 1517-1519