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What is the timeline of the Georgian houses?

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1700-1850 Mid nineteenth centure cap.

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What is the timeline of regency (federal in the US)?

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1780s-1830s

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What is the timeline of Greek/classical revival?

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1820s-1860s

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What is the timeline of Gothic Revival?

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1830s-1880s and later (used in churches)

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What is the timeline of Italianate?

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1840s-1900s

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What is the timeline of Second Empire?

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1870s-1900s

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What is the timeline of Queen Anne?

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1880s-1920s

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What is the timeline of Four Square?

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1890s-1930s

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What is the timeline of Arts and crafts?

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1920s-40s

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What is the timeline for Colonial Revival?

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1940s-1960s

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What is the time line of the modern Ranch?

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1950s-70s

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What is the timeline of Bungalow?

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1970s plus

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What is the overall timeline order of the house styles?

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  1. Georgian (1700-1850)
  2. Regency (1780s-1830s)
  3. Greek Revival (1820s-60s)
  4. Gothic Revival (1830s-80s and later)
  5. Italianate (1840s-1900s)
  6. Second Empire (1870s -1900s)
  7. Queen Anne (1880s-1920s)
  8. Four Square (1890s-1930s)
  9. Arts and Crafts (1920s-40s)
  10. Colonial Revival (1940s-60s)
  11. Modern Ranch (1950s-70s)
  12. Bungalow (1970s+)
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What is diffusion in Archetechture?

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The moving of ideas, for example the hall and parlor house. Or Medieval hall and kitchen.

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What is the Hall and Parlour house?

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House found in 19th Century england that consists of two rooms, the hall and parlour. Small house, also contains to symitrical chimneys.

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What is a mortise and tennon joint?

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Joint that are made of wood that connect a building/wood togther, pre nails.

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What is a Gambral roof?

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Classic 4 point roof in barns, used for more space. Like our barn.

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What is a gable roof?

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Classic roof that has 2 sides, like our house.

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What is a hipped roof?

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Four sides with a hip in the roof. Looks like an umbrella.

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What is quoining?

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When stone are brink coreners are criss crossing with one another.

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What is coursing?

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Coursing is the way in which stone is place in a house.

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What are the types of coursing?

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  1. Irregular (ruble)
  2. built to courses
  3. Snecked
  4. Coursed.
23
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What is a flemishbond/english bond?

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The way in which brick is bonded, English is alternated veritcally, Flemish horizontally.

Eng: _____
—–
_____
Fle: ---

24
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What is an open field village?

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Villages that are sourrounded by field and seperated by narrow strips of land.

25
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What is a nucleated town plan?

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All of the houses are in the centre with the rest of the field outside.

26
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What is House type?

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Different styles of houses.

27
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What are english and double english barns?

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Eng: Classicgable roof single door barn.

Dou Eng: Extended barn

28
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What do you see as the main charateristics of a vernacualr building?

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Subjective, it depedns on who you aks: maybe elaborate and add authors.

29
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What are the features of the Georgian?

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Central door, flanked by one or two windows on either side.

30
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What are the features of Regency?

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Classical elements, colums and pilasters; four chimneys at ends of roof; (parapet wall chiney); three stories; low pitched roof; fan or oval motifs around doors.

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What are the features of Greek Revival?

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returned eves; use of coloums and plasters aaround windows and doors; use of small blocks along eve; rectangualr transom over door; door sidelights

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What are the features of Gothic Revival?

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Features: pointed arch (windows, wall dormers, gables); gingerbread trim around eaves
and gables; board and batten siding (vertical planks and strips on exteriors)
Used in public buildings, schools, commercial buildings. But frequently dormers on
domestic houses

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What are the features of Italianate?

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Features: shallow-pitched roof, wide-overhanging eaves, decorative brackets, arcaded
porches, balustraded balconies
Also known as “Tuscan”, “Lombard,” or “Bracketed” styles. Made popular by pattern
books, especially Andrew Jackson Downing.

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What are the features of Second Empire?

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Features: most obvious is mansard roof; prominent projecting and receding surfaces often
in form of central pavilion; two story bay windows, sometimes three-sided; round-headed
windows; groups of three windows

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What are the features of Queen Anne?

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Features: vertically projecting gables; turrets and towers; huge chimneys; gable roofs
with second-story projections; casement windows sometimes used, with upper panes of square
stained glass; verandas and balconies

34
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What are the features of Four Square?

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Features: appropriated earlier geometrical plans; slightly asymmetrical façade because of
door opening into hall and side stair area

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What are the features of Arts and Crafts?

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Features: overhanging roof supported by pillars/columns coming from front porch;
emphasis on diversity in materials; often the features of materials were showcased (natural wood,
stone, etc.).
Aesth

35
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What are the features of Colonial Revival?

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Features: copies of the symmetrical full-Georgian or two-thirds Georgian house. Often
using reproduced Colonial trim around doors and windows

36
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What are the features of Modern Ranch?

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Features: usually horizontal in plan, long, linear and one story in height; large picture
windows; friont-facing chimneys; interior fireplaces; bright colors; emergence of basements as a
living space

37
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What are the features of Bungalows?

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Features: exteriors become plainer; often open floor plans; living areas separated from
sleeping areas

38
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What types of ways can you build a house out of wood?

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You can use logs, planks timber, verticle logs etc.

39
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Give examples and explain how one culture effects another?

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For an example fish shacks, they are both english and french, we can also see a lot of enligh archetechtrure carried over for example gothic or itainaltte.

40
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How do buildings relate to their surrounding landscape?

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Village arrangement in relation to the barn. Nucleated Barn, Fishstage interaction for the house, and wife coming downn into fishstage.

41
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What cultural values are refelcted in floor plans?

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Each culture has a different floor plan to a house, western values refelct privacy for example.

42
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Who wrote invatation to archetechture?

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Carter and Cromley

43
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What is said in Cater and Cromleys introduction?

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They primailry tlak about the different methods use, for example history is something we can tough adn resort to when the living is not there.

44
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What does Glassie say about barns?

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He says that the modern barn is derieved from the southern point of english and that they were converested to be more mutiluse instad of just storage. Efficient simplisity. Switch from hipped roof and porch to a gbale roof classic double door barn.

45
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What does Megan say about barns?

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Shes primarrily says that barsn become smallest mutifunctional, use to be massive for the old world compared to english barns.

46
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WHat are characteristic of English Barns?

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30 x 40 feet, bilateral and a 3 bay barn that could be converted to a 4 bay barn as well, thresing stock and hay.

47
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What changes in barns?

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Barns start to cshirt and are extended for more efficentcy. We see the double english bar nand some cases cellars on top of barns for animals where the rest is stored on top.

48
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What changed in 19th century for barns?

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They are needed to be bigger becuase of mechanized and economic shifts to the market.

49
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Who was William Innot?

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He was an inn keeper who also had a bungalow or cottage retreat, small adn used to escape the urban life.

50
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Who was Thomas Pack?

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Wealthy merchant who ended up owning a cottage as well, much biggerest and meant for parties.

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