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Terra Amata, France- c. 400,000 BCE |
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-Lascaux cave, France. c.10,000 BCE
-spirituality not habitation
-"gallery space"
- Architecture is meant to say something about who we are. |
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-Skara Brae, Scotland
-2000 BCE
-heavy insulated walls (cyclopean masonry)
-possible whale bone usage because no wood
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-Carnac, France
-2000 BCE
-rows of menhirs (purpose unclear)
-planned out ORDER= ARCHITECTURE |
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-New Grange, Ireland
-2500 BCE
-one of largest structures of Neolithic era
-surrounded by ditch
-spiral carvings
use of CORBELLING: slowly narrowing span
-1st space not relying on megalithic construction |
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-Stonehenge, England 2750-1500 BCE
-built in four phases
-birth of tectonics and monumental architecture
-use of lintels+piers= trilithon
-mortise and tenon construction
-trabeated construction= all about piers+lintels |
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Ishtar Gate
-Babylon, Iraq (575 BCE)
Commisioned by Nebuchadnessar
fire-baked tiles with glaze |
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Jericho
Israel, Palestine (7500)
-Layered
-centered around natural spring
-stone tower with internal passageways |
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Khirokitia
Cypruss
(5500)
-One stone masonry "street"
raised
-widening of street at point= plaza
-city developed linearly along pathway |
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Çatalhöyük, Turkey
6000 BCE
-largest neolithic city
-no street system: roof occupation
-painted interior walls and carving orientation |
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Ziggurat of Ur Nammu
Ur, Iraq (2113-2096)
-symbolized mountains
-ceremonial procession "climbing" |
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Giza, Egypt
Khufu, Khafra, Menkaura
(2570-2500) |
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-flat roofed rectangle with sloping sides
-tomb chamber underneath |
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-row of columns with entablature |
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-Short wall that projects at a right angle from main wall |
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-Upper zone of wall pierced with windows to let in light. |
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-grooves (channels) that ornament the shafts of columns |
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-Egyptian capstone, symbolizes lotus flower |
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Mortuary Complex of Zoser
Zoser, Saquarra (2680)
Architect: Imohotep |
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Great Sphinx
Giza, Egypt
-Largest monolithic sculpture
-One piece of stone |
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Temple of Amon, Karnak
(1525-1350)
-tri part division
Public= front
priest= center
tomb= back
^form for all New Age Architecture |
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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Deir el Bahri (1500)
-elaborate passage way to actual tomb
-axial
-trabeation/repetition of elements |
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Mortuary Temple of Menuhotep
Deir el Bahri (2050)
-First great building since pyramids
-framed with columns
-peristyle court
-merges old form (pyramids) and new trabeated forms |
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Temple of Ramses II
Abu Simbel
-display power through architecture
-axial
-excavated into cliff
-same three part division
-elements of trabeation inside |
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-Lion's Gate
Mycenae, Greece 1250 |
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-wooden frame where in between are is filled with bricks or stone |
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-Rammed earth walls
-wooden frame removed afterwards |
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-Troy (Hisarlik), Turkey
(3000-1300 BCE)
-Troy VI Homeric Troy
-8 layers
-rubble masonry
-consisted of megarons, the basis of the Greek temple |
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-Palace of Minos- Knossos, Crete
(1600 BCE)
-Most important city of Bronze age
-self-contained city/ building complex
-planned out spaces
-terraced courtyard and magazines
-frescos |
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-Treasury of Atreus (tomb of Agaememnon)
-tomb in hillside
-round beehive chamber
-dromos= passageway
-ASHLAR MASONRY
-large interior space w/o using columns |
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-Temple of Artemis- Ephesos, Turkey
-(560-550)
IONIC |
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-Temple of Apollo- Delphi, Greece
(3rd-4th century)
-1st view of temple is from corner
-faces east
-theater for civic/religious purposes
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-Persepolis, Iran
-(518-460 BCE)
-everything set on platform
bas reliefs |
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-Persepolis, Iran
-Palace of Darius/ Hypostyle Hall of Xerxes
-(518-460 BCE)
-thinner columns meant you could see diagonally through the space (differed from Egyptian)
- persians borrowed a a lot from egyptian architectural |
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-Theater, Epidaurus
(300 BCE)
-uncovered open-air ampitheater
-cavea: seating portion
-orchestra: place for chorus
-cut into hillside and followed natural topography |
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-Propylaia- Akropolis, Athens Greece
(437-432)
-Mneskiles -gate into akropolis
-Architect as: designer, contractor, sculptor, worker |
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-Temple of Athena Nike
-Akroplois Athens
-Kallikrates
-ionic
-tetrastyle and amphiprostyle
-architrave and frieze |
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-Parthenon- Akropolis, Athens
(447-432)
-Iktinos and Kallikrates
-largest Doric temple
-memorial sculptures on stairs of temple
-actually garishly painted (reds and blues) |
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-Erechterion- Akropolis, Athens
-(421-405)
-Kallikrates
-entrance through portico
-ionic porch
-female figures hold up columns |
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-Temple of Apollo- Bassae, Greece
(late 5th century)
-Iktinos
-doric
-entry in North (not the typical East)
-frieze runs along inside of car
-First example of corinthian columns
-acanthus: leaves on corinthian column |
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-Monument of Lysicrates, Athens
-(335)
-award monument for actor Lysicrates
-always replicated |
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-Altar of Zeus- Pergamon, Turkey
(197-159)
-open-air free standing altar
-repeated columns/stairs= hellenistic style
-huge frieze running around base
-more open-air sculpture than a building |
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-prehistoric arrangement of huge stones |
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-prehistoric tomb. trabeated construction then buried under earthen mound |
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-roofed stone corridor (multiple dolmen in succession) then buried under earth |
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piers, lintels, trabeation |
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-'pi' shaped monument -trabeation= constructionusing piers and lintels |
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-monument in the form of a single upright stone |
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-earthen mound 9often covering a tomb) |
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-construction method where stones are slowly set more inward until each side connects into an arch. instead of capping with single stone |
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-rudimentary building form with large, unformed stones |
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- more precise than cyclopean. stones are cut and then stacked upon each other |
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-building with small stones patched together with grout/plaster/or mud to hold in place |
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-most basic form of architecture -single unit formed by two piers and a lintel |
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-mud mixed with straw or sticks and then piled up to form structure |
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-sun baked mud bricks mixed with a binder (straw or sticks) -often covered with plaster for extra protection |
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-rammed earth construction -built using molds |
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half- timber construction |
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- frame filled with mud, brick, stones etc. |
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-temple in the form of a stepped tower wich symbolizes climbing a mountain |
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-using a grid pattern for planning where lines either intersect at right angles or are parallel to eachother |
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-flutes= ridges carved in sides of column |
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-chamber inside a mastaba which contains a statue of the deceased |
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-grid of columns -Egyptian -often disorienting |
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-open space surrounded on at least two sides with columns (collonades) |
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-In Egyptian architecture, use of axis symbolized connection with Nile |
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-monumental pair of sloping masses which mark an entrance -Egyptian |
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-four-sided shaft with capstone |
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-art form in which the figures are slightly raised from background |
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-principle hall of a Mycenaen, Cretan, or Anatolian palace/house -rectangular plan with hearth in center and surrounded by columns -Basis of Greek temple |
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-architecture that creates a constant, shifting movement -think Palace of Minos, Knossos |
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-circular, subterranean chamber |
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-main floor of a large building/palace |
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-usage of multiple colors |
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-corbelled chamber 9shaped like beehive!) -think: Treasury of Atreus |
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-underground passageway -think Treasury of Atreus |
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-wall mural painted on WET plaster -locks pigment in place and creates more lasting color |
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-breezeway with columns on one side
-think open-air market space |
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-Porch=ANY covered entry -portico= with at least two columns |
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-tiered, semi-circular seating of an ampitheater |
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-place where chorus stood in amphitheater (best acoustics) |
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-actual stage portion of amphitheater |
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-"changing room" area of amphitheater |
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-"gatehouse" entry of amphitheater |
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-slight convexity given to columns to make appear completely straight. -lozenge shape |
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-female figures as columns -think: Erechterion, Akropolis, Athens |
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-place where assembly met |
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-picture made with small pieces |
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-Enclosed place where sacred temple stood? |
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-Central structure of temple |
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-Columns on just front/back |
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-columns surrounding (all sides) |
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Distyle tetra- hexa- octa- enna- deca- |
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-formula for # of columns on sides |
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-# of side columns= # in front times 2 plus 1 |
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-Statues on corners of temple DORIC |
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-Sloped top portion (gable?) DORIC |
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-architrave frieze and cornice |
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-Peripteral=surrounded by single row of columns -dipteral= surrounded by two rows of columns |
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-Doric= without base -Ionic= with base |
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-Open portion before cella (naos) |
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-Flat level which everything sits on |
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-stairs leading to stylobate |
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-the recessed, usually triangular space enclosed between the horizontal and sloping cornices of a pediment, often decorated with sculpture |
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-the uppermost member of a classical entablature |
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-Everything between columns and eaves of a temple
-(freize, cornice, and architrave) |
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-decorative band at top or beneath cornice |
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-lowest part of the entablature |
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-slab that forms top of column |
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-circular slab which supports the abacus |
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-Spiral ornament of the capital IONIC |
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the underside of an architectural feature, as a beam, arch, ceiling,vault, or cornice. |
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-Series of small, rectangular blocks placed in cornice -think: dentils=teeth |
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-Collonade parallel, but apart from cella |
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-small room in the cella of a classical temple |
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-sharp ridge of Doric columns |
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- new style that emerges in the Temple of Apollo in Bassae, Greece -Dont know why. everything IONIC except acanthus leaves capital |
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-sculptured representation of a young man |
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-single element that is easily produced/repeated |
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