Regia (architecture)

Regia is a classical building type, a place where a governing authority resides.[1][2] It is among the ancient building types. Others are the tholos, the temple, the theater, the dwelling, and the shop. Buildings according to this type may be rectangular in plan with an interior courtyard.[3]

For the building in Rome, see Regia.
Plan of Francesco Borromini's Palazzo della Sapienza (1642–1660), originally the home of Sapienza University of Rome. As a place of authority, it is built according to the regia type.

References
  1. Cornell, T.J. (1995). The beginnings of Rome : Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000 - 264 BC) (Reprinted. ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 239–241. ISBN 9780415015967. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. Holloway, Ross (12 May 2014). The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium. Routledge. pp. 62–3. ISBN 9781317761594. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. Robert Jan van Pelt & Carroll William Westfall (1991), Architectural Principles In the Age of Historicism, Yale University Press, p. 159


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