Auditorium
An auditorium (plural according to Duden: Aulen or Aulas ) is a meeting room, especially in schools and universities . At universities without an auditorium, the largest or most representative lecture hall takes on the same function as an auditorium maximum .
When Homer was Aule ( Greek. Αυλή, "yard") who converted, light yard of a house. In the 8th century BC The auditorium became the core of the Greek courtyard house, around which multi-storey living and utility rooms were grouped; the courtyard itself was either paved or consisted of tamped ground. The house arranged around the auditorium replaced the Greek forms of one and two-room houses that had been common up until then. In the course of time, the room combinations were increasingly standardized. The assembly hall was partially framed by columns and thus became the preliminary stage of the peristyle house , which was built from the 4th century BC onwards. The house building of the wealthy dominated.
Derived from the original meaning “courtyard”, Hellenistic administrative inscriptions also refer to a farm as an Aule .
For the Romans , the hall functionally corresponded to the atrium . When Hall was referred from the Roman Empire representative (public) hall premises for ceremonial acts, such as the Constantine Palace Hall in Trier . From these there is a direct connection to the Aula regia in the royal palaces of the Middle Ages .
In the early Christian basilicas , the hall marked the nave intended for lay people .
Finally, in academic usage, the name was transferred to the large halls and halls in university buildings , schools for scholars, etc. intended for public meetings and celebrations .
In Austria and Bavaria , the assembly hall is also understood to mean the large entrance area of universities and schools, provided that it serves the purpose of gathering.
literature
- Wolfram Hoepfner , Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner : House and City in Classical Greece. (= Living in the classic polis. Vol. 1). 2nd heavily revised edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-422-06024-3 .
- Hans Lauter : The architecture of Hellenism. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1986, ISBN 3-534-09401-8 , pp. 223-227.
- Auditorium. In: Ernst Seidl (Hrsg.): Lexicon of building types. Functions and forms of architecture. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-15-010572-2 .
