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Larson Arch History Exam 1
Jerry Larson's ATC History E1
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
02/06/2014

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mastaba
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type of Egyptian tomb
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pylon
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walled planes to divide spaces
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battered
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sloped walls for support
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hypostyle hall
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Egyptian place of worship
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clerestory window
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tall skinny windows in midle hall of building to let in natural light
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obelisk
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foursided monument with pointed top
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polychromatic
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multiple colors
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Doric
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greek column order derived from wood consruction
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Triglyph
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vertical channeled tablets in Doric frieze
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Metope
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decorative band between two Trigylphs in Dorc frieze
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Ionic
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columns with volutes on its capital
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Corinthian
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column order that feautured acanthus leaves in the capital of the column
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column capital
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the top part of the column
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column shaft
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the pole spanning from bottom to top of column, main support
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column fluting
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the vertical grooves running vertically along the surface
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column base
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the bottom of the column connecting it to the ground or slab
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cornice entablature
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frieze entablature
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architrave entablature
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stoa
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gora
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naos/cella pronaos
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mannerism
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forum
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podium
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arch voussoir
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arch keystone
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arch thrust
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arch buttress
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hypocaust
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basilica
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circus
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velarium
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pozzolana concrete
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concrete
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opus recticulatum
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dome oculus
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dome haunch
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dome coffers
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Commodity, Firmness, and Delight
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Tuscan order
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Composite order
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Triumphal Arch
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Frigidarium
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Tepidarium
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Caldarium
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Thermae window
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barrel vault
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groin vault
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barrel vault
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side aisle(nave)
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triforium gallery (nave)
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clerestory (nave)
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vault (nave)
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apse with radiating chapels
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transcept
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crossing tower/lantern
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ribbed vault
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Lombard vault
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sexpartite vault
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quadripartite vault
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chevet
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pointed arch
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flying buttress
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side aisle(tripartite)
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triforium gallery(tripartite)
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clerestory/vault(tripartite)
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Two non-greek wonders of the ancient world
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Pyramids of Giza and Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Seven wonders of the ancient world
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Pyramids of Giza

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Colossus of Rhodes

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Greek leader associated with the term "Hellenistic"
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Alexander the Great
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Pharos
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
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Event that destroyed Library of Alexandria
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Julius Caesar setting fire to his own ships
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Difference between Greek Doric and Roman Doric
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First American structurre to be erected with an iron frame that also supported its masonry envelope
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McCollough Shot tower
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inventor of the cast-iron fronted building in America
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James Bogardus
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Bogardus' proposed design for the 1853 New York World's Fair
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central 350' tower

4 stories

cast iron front

iron chain sheet metal roof

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construction system used in Bogardus' McCollough Shot Tower
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Iron skeleton

12" brick each floor

masonry infill

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Bogardus' primary competitor in the New York City market
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Daniel Badger
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inventor of American iron skeleton frame
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James Bogardus
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1st U.S. city where cast-iron was used to any great degree
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New York City
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Pugin's theory
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gothic

spritual

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Ruskin's theory
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moral

handmade

human passion

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Violet-le-duc's theory
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rationalism

vaulting system

context: fits the time and function

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effect on architecture of Franco-Prussian war
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France did not build 1st skyscraper because of Declarion of Independence

USA built 1st skyscraper

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style of architecture constructed during Napoleon III's reign
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2nd Empire

Beaux arts

Mansard

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in charge of urban renovation of Paris in the mid-19th century and appointed Prefect of the Siene by Napoleon III
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Georges Haussmann
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three laws that controlled design of Haussmann's building design in Paris
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constant cornice and floor height

roof at 45° slope

required use of quarry stone

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two aspects of early industrial revolution in Great Britain that brought the reform movement in design
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urban ghettos

less ornamental

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first British architect to use the theory of zeitgeist in challenging his peers to improve British architecture in 1835
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Owen Jones
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German term for "spirit of the times"
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zeitgeist
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first British architect to call for a new style in architecture appropriate to the 19th century
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Owen Jones
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Owen Jones' first book documenting the Islamic tradition of ornament and the study of it
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Alhambra
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first to propose to Prince Albert the idea for the Crystal Palace
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Henry Cole
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designer in control of the color scheme of the Crystal Palace
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Owen Jones
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method of protecting the Crystal Palace's glass roof from the heat of the sun
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a canvas awning
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the way South Kensington School of Design was orginally funded
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money made at crystal palace gates
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author of The Grammar of Ornament
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Owen Jones
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what did Owen Jones mean by "repose"
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not hyperactive

always under control

"want of nothing, complete design unto itself

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two ornamental systems influenced by Owen Jones in the late 19th century
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contrast

true principles of pointed or christian arch

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author of Contrasts
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Agustus Pugin
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major differnce in ideas between Pugin and Jones
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Pugin wanted to go back to gothic

Jones wanted to stay in the 19th century

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two architects responsible for the reconstruction of the Houses of Parliament in 1836
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Charles Barry

Agustus Pugin

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reason behind the guidelines of the Houses of Parliament reconstruction being it had to be Gothic or Elizabethan
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classical was related to Napoleon and he was hated
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helped shape the culture of Victorian Britain with Thomas Carlyle
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Ruskin
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two books written by John Ruskin about architectural theory
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Seven Lamps of Architecture

The Stones of Venice

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the "red house," symbol of the beginning of the Arts and Crafts movement in England was designed by which architect
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Webb
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painting movment the influenced William Morris that parralled the Gothic Revival
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Pre-Raphaelites
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configuration of the Arts and Crafts house
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L-shaped
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why the L-shpaed configuration of the Arts and Crafts house
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rejection of Palladio's symmetircal estates

easy to add on to in the future

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