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Brown Bauhaus HOA 1 Flashcards

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A privileged guild of architects and builders as well as sculptors originating in Como, Italy, which carried out church building and characteristic decoration during the 11th century

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Comacine Masters

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A secular version of Gothic architecture, as in the older colleges of Cambridge and Oxford

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Collegiate Gothic

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The main sanctuary of a Shinto shrine

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Haiden

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A continuous row of pilasters in series

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Pilastrade

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A phase of the Early Period of Spanish Renaissance architecture of the later 15C and early 16C, an intricate style named after its likeness to silverwork

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Plateresque

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A functional architecture devoid of regional characteristics, developed in the 1920’s and 30’s in Western Europe and the US and applied throughout the world: characterized by simple geometric forms, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction

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International Style

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The finest architectural gem of the Mughal (Mogul) style

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Taj Mahal

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The principal chamber or enclosed part of a classical temple, where the cult image was kept

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Cella

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How many windows are there in the great dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople?

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40

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A decorative scroll-work and other ornament loosely derived from branches, leaves, tendrils, and vegetation

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Arabesque

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What European country has both western and eastern apses in its Romanesque churches?

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Germany

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The primary building material of Anglo-Saxon architecture

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Timber

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The early Romanesque architecture of the German dynasty that ruled as emperors of the Holy Roman Empire from 962-1002 BCE

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Ottonian Architecture

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A method of building, originating in Greece and adopted by the Romans, in which a space left in the interior of the wall was filled in with rubble, the whole block of masonry being bound together at intervals by ties

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Emplecton

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A room for undressing in a Roman bath-house

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Apodyterium

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An ancient Egyptian temple for offerings and worship of a deceased person, usually a deified king

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Mortuary Temple

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The movement in Italy contemporary with Art Nouveau

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Stile Liberty

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The “womb-house”; the sanctum, holy of holies in Indian/Hindu temples

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Garba-Griha

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A philosophical/semilogical approach to reassess texts that acquired an architectural meaning during the 1980’s, mainly due to the writings of the philosopher Jacques Derrida. The architectural consequence of the application of this theory was the apparent fragmentation of buildings forms, the rejection of the right angle and curve in favor of the sharp acute angle and principles of design and construction conventionally believed to be axiomatic

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Deconstruction

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The phase western European Renaissance architecture, c. 1750-1830, when renewed inspiration was sought from ancient Greek and Roman and from medieval architecture. Its more specific manifestations were the Greek and Gothic Revivals both continuing further onto the 19C.

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Antiquarian

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Megalithic tombs or tumuli in Japan, constructed between early 3rd century and early 7th century for the aristocracy

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Kofun

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An artificial mound of earth or stone especially over an ancient grave

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Tumulus

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A circular arrangement of megaliths enclosing dolmen or burial mound

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Cromlech

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A pillared hall in which the roof rests on columns. Applied to the many-columned hall of Egyptian temples.

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Hypostyle

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Refers to a Spanish Baroque style, elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 1600s and was used up to about 1750, marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main facade of a building

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Churrigueresque

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A pillared hall in which the roof rests on columns. Applied to the many-columned hall of Egyptian temples.

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Hypostyle Hall

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The characteristic cornice of the most Egyptian buildings, consisting of a large cavetto decorated with vertical leaves and a roll molding below

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Gorge Cornice

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A Roman public open space for social, civic or market purposes. There was at least one in every Roman town.

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Forum

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The main building material of the Greeks

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Marble

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The domestic houses of the Aegeans

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Megaron

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A tower of Hindu temple usually tapered and capped by a bulbous stone finial

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Sikhara

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The projection of a figure or form from the flat background on which it is formed

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Relief

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The triangular-shaped, sometimes ornamented area between the extrados of two adjoining arches, or between the left or right extrados of an arch and the rectangular framework surrounding

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Spandrel

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A bracket system used in traditional Chinese construction which supports the roof beams, project the eaves outward, support the interior ceiling

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Dougong

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A Japanese Buddhist sect that prescribes to a philosophy or outlook based on antinationalism believers seeks enlightenment through introspection and intuition

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Zen

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Description of buildings of the 16C and 17C which were built with strong timber foundation, supports, knees, and studs and whose walls were filled in which plaster or masonry materials such as brick

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Half-Timbered

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A Neolithic settlement in Anatolia, dated 6500-5000 BCE. One of the world’s earliest cities. It had a mud-brick fortifications and houses, frescoed shrines, a fully developed agriculture and extensive trading in obsidian, the chief material for tool making

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Catal Huyuk

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Surface decoration, light and fanciful in character much used by Arabian artist, in elaborate continuations of lines

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Arabesque

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The principal temple-pyramid of the sacred Teotihuacán in Mexico

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Pyramid of the Sun

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A dynasty in China 220-206 BCE marked by the emergence of a centralized government and the construction of much of the Great Wall of China

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Chin

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The wall in a mosque in which the niche or decorative panel is set oriented to Mecca

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Mihrab

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The arcaded hall of a mosque

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Riwaq

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The screen, or ornamental work, rising behind the altar

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Reredos

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A principal facade or part or feature of facade, often treated as separate element of the design and highlighted by the ornamentation

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Frontispiece

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The principal building type of Elizabethan architecture exclusive for the wealthy

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Mansion

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The special feature of German Gothic cathedrals, especially in the North, where there is an absence of a triforium a clerestory, while the nave and the aisles have the same height

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Hall Churches

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Sculptural relief in which the highest points of the molded forms are below or level with the original surface

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High Relief

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A tendency in architecture and the decorative arts to freely mix various historical styles

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Eclecticism

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The prevalent building materials of Victorian architecture

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Steel and glass

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A movement in architecture in the 1950’s emphasizing the use of basic building processes especially of cast in place concrete with no apparent concern for visual amenity

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Brutalism

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