Test 1: Terms Flashcards
*Caryatid
A column shaped like a woman.
Portico
A porch leading to the entrance of a building, with a roof structure over a walkway supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
Archetype
A pattern or model that has cultural validity that was gained through repeated use.
The 3 ways to describe building type
- Building technique and material.
- Intended function.
- Culture that built it.
Battered Walls
Walls are slopping in.
What 3 things is architectural history created by?
- Built form
- Place
- Time
The 3 ways “built form” is experienced
- Representation
- Reproduction
- Face to face
Ways of describing the “place”
- Physical
- Social
- Economic
- Political
- Cultural
“Time”
- Three filters in which we view the past:
- Three systems of organizing history:
- Three filters in which we view the past:
A. Memory.
B. Bias.
C. Experience. - Three systems of organizing history:
A. Linear/chronological – progressive sequence.
B. Cyclical – a sequence that repeats; seasons.
C. Oscillating – bouncing back and forth between two points.
The 3 things that architecture consists of
- Architects
- Buildings
- People
The 3 emotions associated with architecture
- Intented - Planned
- Inherent - An essential attribute
- Evoked - Bring to consciousness
Representation vs. Reproduction
A representation is a drawing of an “abstraction” of what the building is “conveying;” a plan, section, or elevation.
A reproduction is a picture or painting showing what your eye would see if there.
*Peristyle
Colonnade surrounding an open space.
*Temenos
A sacred enclosure .
*Propylaeum
A gateway.
*Orchestra
Performance area in a Hellenic theater.
*Shakhura
“Waiting room” of Sumerian temple.
*Acropolis
High, usually fortified area containing important buildings.
*Megaron
Archetypal house from Asia Minor.
*Battered
Becoming narrower from bottom to top.
*Stela
A standing stone, usually marking a grave.
*Cella
Interior space of a Greek temple.
*Rotunda
A round interior space.
Clerestory window
An upper portion of a wall containing windows for supplying natural light to a building.
Mastaba
Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides.
What are the two types of Greek built form?
- Sacred
2. Civic
What are 2 types of sacred Greek architecture?
- Temple
2. Theater
What is the name of the Greek civic space?
Agora
What are the parts of the Agora?
- Stoa
- Palestra
- Bouleuterion
- Stadium
Stoa
Rectangular shaped multipurpose room.
Bouleuterion
Council hall for government discussions. First is was square with seating on all sides, then changed to U-shaped.
Palestra
Gym to exercise the body and the mind. Square with open court surrounded by stoas.
Stadium
Where people competed in the Olympics to try to win to bring glory to their town. Always on a hill of valley for seating.
