The original pattern others echo — the first shape a family of things descends from.

Belonging to the decisions everything later must live inside. Of the choices that are expensive to change.

A group whose members share a rank or kind. From the Roman summons - a class was first the people called out together.

Belonging to an established older form taken as a standard. Classical is a claim about lineage, not about quality.

A large room for gathering, and the passage joining rooms. Both are spaces defined by what passes through.

The Greek titan of memory, mother of the muses. Names this house's Observatory — the realm that does not act but sees: pattern, timeline, and the shape of the whole.

The full set of a tradition's named powers, held together as one company. A pantheon is a structure of relation, not a list.

The declared shape of a thing. The form something is held in, named before it is filled.