Shared Flashcard Set

Details

ArcCole
Test1 Flash Cards
33
Architecture
Undergraduate 1
02/13/2017

Additional Architecture Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
[image]
Definition

Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)

Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs.

Term
[image]
Definition

Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)

Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs.

Term
[image]
Definition

Kickapoo Village (Mexico), 20th century, Mexicans (Kikapu)

Sig: They had tensile frames and grass mat roofs.

Term
[image]
Definition


Lascaux Cave (France), 10,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic

The oldest known paintings.

Term
[image]
Definition


Lascaux Cave (France), 10,000 B.C.E., Paleolithic

The oldest known paintings.

Term
[image] 
Definition

Lepenski Vir (Yugoslavia) 6300-4800 BCE, Paleolithic

Sig: A large settlement by a river, compression frame structures that suggest less nomadic people.

Term
[image] 
Definition

Lepenski Vir (Yugoslavia) 6300-4800 BCE, Paleolithic

Sig: A large settlement by a river, compression frame structures that suggest less nomadic people.

Term




[image]

Definition

Terra Amata, (France), 400,000 B.C.E - paleolithic

Sig: Oldest evidence of architecture.

Term
[image] 
Definition

Sittard (Netherlands), 4000 BCE, neolithic

Sig: Longhouses that were one of the earliest permanent structures.

Term
[image]
Definition

Sittard (Netherlands), 4000 BCE, neolithic

Sig: Longhouses that were one of the earliest permanent structures.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Skara Brae (Scotland), 2000 B.C.E., neolithic

Sig. Built in stone furniture.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Skara Brae (Scotland), 2000 B.C.E., neolithic

Sig. Built in stone furniture.

Term
[image]  [image][image]
Definition

New Grange (Irland) 2500 BCE, Neolithic

 

Sig. Had a passage grave and a corbelled vault.

Term
[image]  [image]
Definition

New Grange (Irland) 2500 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Had a passage grave and a corbelled vault.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Stonehenge (England), 2750-1500 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Is a megalith that contains trilithons. (first lintel siting)

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Jericho (Israel/Palestine) 7000 BCE, Neolithic

 

Sig. First city ever known.

Term
[image] [image]
Definition

Jericho (Israel/Palestine) 7000 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. First city ever known.

Term
[image][image][image]
Definition

Catalhoyuk (Turkey) 6000 BCE, Neolithic.

Sig. Use cob and half-timbering to build homes. Worshipped bulls.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Citadel and royal palace of Sargon II, Korsabad, (Iraq), 740 BCE, Neolithic

Sig. Palace constructed of different sized rooms. Also had robust exterior walls.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Mortuary Complex of Zoser, Saqqara, 2680 BCE, Imhotep

Sig. Imhotep is known as the first architect in history.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Mortuary Complex of Zoser, Saqqara, 2680 BCE, Imhotep

Sig. Imhotep is known as the first architect in history.

Term
[image][image][image]
Definition

Pyramids of Giza Egypt, (Khufu, Khafra, and Mekaura), 2500 BCE, Egyptians

The Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu’s) was the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel Tower.

Term
[image][image][image]
Definition

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri, 1500 B.C.E Senmut

Sig. The structure had statue columns and the structure presents more of its self as you approach it.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Troy [Hisarlik] (Turkey), 3000-1300 BCE, (Troy VI, Homeric Troy) Hittites

Sig. Was a large city state that was built over and over again on top of itself.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Palace of Minos, Knossos (Crete), c. 3000-1300 BCE, Minoan

Sig. The people would perform bull-vaulting in court yards.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Palace of Nestor, Pylos (Greece) c. 1300 BCE Mycenaean

Sig. Had a megaron palace.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Treasury of Atreus (Tomb of Agamemnon), Mycenae (Greece), c. 1400 BCE Mycenaean

Sig. Was a tholos (beehive) tomb.

Term
[image]
Definition

Second Temple of Hera, Samos (Greece) 538 BCE, Dorians (Greeks)

Sig. Is a hexastyle doric temple.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Temple of Artemis, Ephesos (Turkey), c 550 BCE, Ionians

Sig. Was a peripteral ionic temple

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Bouleuterion, Miletus (Turkey), c. 170 BCE, Greeks

Sig. It was a city council chamber.

Term

[image][image][image]
Definition

Stoa of Attalos II, Athens, (Greece) 150 BCE Greek

Sig. It has a mix of doric and ionic columns.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Propylaea, Akropolis, Athens, 425 BCE, Kallikrates

Sig. Slightly separated in the middle to create a gate.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, (Greece) 440 BCE, Iktinos and Kallikrates

Sig. Is slightly curved upward to be more appealing to the eye.

Supporting users have an ad free experience!