Test 1: Terms

Question 1

*Caryatid

Answer 1

A column shaped like a woman.

Question 2

Portico

Answer 2

A porch leading to the entrance of a building, with a roof structure over a walkway supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

Question 3

Archetype

Answer 3

A pattern or model that has cultural validity that was gained through repeated use.

Question 4

The 3 ways to describe building type

Answer 4

1. Building technique and material.
2. Intended function.
3. Culture that built it.

Question 5

Battered Walls

Answer 5

Walls are slopping in.

Question 6

What 3 things is architectural history created by?

Answer 6

1. Built form
2. Place
3. Time

Question 7

The 3 ways “built form” is experienced

Answer 7

1. Representation
2. Reproduction
3. Face to face

Question 8

Ways of describing the “place”

Answer 8

1. Physical
2. Social
3. Economic
4. Political
5. Cultural

Question 9

“Time”

1. Three filters in which we view the past:
2. Three systems of organizing history:

Answer 9

1. Three filters in which we view the past:
   A. Memory.
   B. Bias.
   C. Experience.
2. 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.

Question 10

The 3 things that architecture consists of

Answer 10

1. Architects
2. Buildings
3. People

Question 11

The 3 emotions associated with architecture

Answer 11

1. Intented - Planned
2. Inherent - An essential attribute
3. Evoked - Bring to consciousness

Question 12

Representation vs. Reproduction

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

*Peristyle

Answer 13

Colonnade surrounding an open space.

Question 14

*Temenos

Answer 14

A sacred enclosure .

Question 15

*Propylaeum

Answer 15

A gateway.

Question 16

*Orchestra

Answer 16

Performance area in a Hellenic theater.

Question 17

*Shakhura

Answer 17

“Waiting room” of Sumerian temple.

Question 18

*Acropolis

Answer 18

High, usually fortified area containing important buildings.

Question 19

*Megaron

Answer 19

Archetypal house from Asia Minor.

Question 20

*Battered

Answer 20

Becoming narrower from bottom to top.

Question 21

*Stela

Answer 21

A standing stone, usually marking a grave.

Question 22

*Cella

Answer 22

Interior space of a Greek temple.

Question 23

*Rotunda

Answer 23

A round interior space.

Question 24

Clerestory window

Answer 24

An upper portion of a wall containing windows for supplying natural light to a building.

Question 25

Mastaba

Answer 25

Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides.

Question 26

What are the two types of Greek built form?

Answer 26

1. Sacred

2. Civic

Question 27

What are 2 types of sacred Greek architecture?

Answer 27

1. Temple

2. Theater

Question 28

What is the name of the Greek civic space?

Answer 28

Agora

Question 29

What are the parts of the Agora?

Answer 29

1. Stoa
2. Palestra
3. Bouleuterion
4. Stadium

Question 30

Stoa

Answer 30

Rectangular shaped multipurpose room.

Question 31

Bouleuterion

Answer 31

Council hall for government discussions. First is was square with seating on all sides, then changed to U-shaped.

Question 32

Palestra

Answer 32

Gym to exercise the body and the mind. Square with open court surrounded by stoas.

Question 33

Stadium

Answer 33

Where people competed in the Olympics to try to win to bring glory to their town. Always on a hill of valley for seating.