Rotunda (architecture)

The Rotunda at the University of Virginia, famously designed by the third US president Thomas Jefferson.

A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any building with a circular plan, and sometimes covered by a dome. It may also refer to a round room within a building. A famous example is the one below the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C..

Further readings

• Vera, Gervers-Molnár (1972): A középkori Magyarország rotundái. (Rotunda in the Medieval Hungary). Akadémiai, Budapest
• József, Csemegi (1949): A tarnaszentmáriai templom hajójának stíluskritikai vizsgálata. (Studies on the Nave of the Church at Tarnaszentmária.) in: Antiquitas Hungarica III (1949), 92-107.

Rotunda (architecture) Media

• 

  Cross-section of the Pantheon's rotunda.

• 

  Temple of Hercules Victor, in the Forum Boarium in Rome

• 

  The Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome by Donato Bramante c. 1502

• 

  Rotunda of St. George in Skalica, Slovakia from 11th century

• 

  Beehive, Wellington, New Zealand

• 

  Interior of the rotunda at New York City's Steinway Hall with an Art Case Piano by artist Mia LaBerge in the foreground

• 

  The Rotunda office and Residential building in Birmingham, England is an example of modern rotunda buildings

• 

  The St. George Rotunda (4th century) and some remains of Serdica can be seen in the foreground.

• 

  Interior of a rotunda at the Cherokee County Courthouse in North Carolina

• 

  Remains of a circular Chaitya, Tulja Caves