THE QUINCUNX AS ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE. GEOMETRY AND DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTIONS AFTER LEONARDO DA VINCI’S CENTRIC PLAN TEMPLES
The quinconce is a five once bronze coin with five points on one of its faces as disposed as on a
modern die: four in the corners and one in the middle. In architecture, the Latin term quincunx is
instead used to label a building with four pillars (tetrastylum) dividing a square plan in nine parts,
and five domes as disposed as the points on the coin. Originally this term mainly described
buildings first of the Armenian and then Byzantine and Arab tradition (Krautheimer), but related