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East
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pylon
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gate
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La Minatura
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WRIGHT
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Gable Roof
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Dormer windows
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Dutch window
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MIT's Green Building
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PEI
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UCLA Medical Center
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PEI
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Radiant City
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LE CORBUSIER
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vihara
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a Buddhist monastery.
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Bay Window
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A projecting window
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Easy edges cardboard furniture
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GEHRY
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Vivian Beaumont Theater
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EERO SAARINEN
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cornice
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any prominent, continuous, horizontally projecting feature surmounting a wall or other construction
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Neumann, Residenz at Wurzburg, Wurzburg (1744)
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Schinkel, Neuer Packhof, Berlin (1820)
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Burlington, Chiswick House, London (1725)
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Renaissance
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• 15th-17th century, Florence, Italy, "rebirth" mainly Greek and Roman, 1st period to name themselves
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Chartres Cathedral
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1134; Gothic; Gothic Cathedral
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Des Moines Art Center
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ELIEL SAARINEN
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Arch
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a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it
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apse
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a semicircular or polygonal termination or recess in a building, usually vaulted and used esp. at the end of a choir in a church.
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balustrade
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a railing with supporting balusters.
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Towns:
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have cathedrals at the center (spiritual, education, and civic centers); guilds have importance (donate windows that often depict biblical scenes or patron saints that describe the subject of the guild which was a fraternal society of craftsmen or merchants similar to a modern day union or frat); cathedral served vital social and economic functions
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Piranesi, Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, Series of etchings (1780)
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Wagner, Villa Wagner II, Vienna (1910)
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Ledoux, House of Pleasure, unbuilt (1770)
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Partition
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A structure that separates or divides
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Corinthian Column
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most elaborate type of capital
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Eyes that Do Not See
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LE CORBUSIER
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Ionic Columns
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volute capitals, elaborately molded base, slimmer shafts than Doric, with deeper fluting
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Texture
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the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface.
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pergola
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an arbor formed of horizontal trelliswork supported on columns or posts, over which vines or other plants are trained.
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vestibule
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a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
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concrete
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artificial, stonelike material made of sand and gravel
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bracket
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an L-shaped support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf)
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symmetrical
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having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts
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Neo-Classical
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characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style, this style was used in the world fair
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Ornament
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a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or impressed onto a surface.
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Art Nouveau
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Architecture that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890-1905).The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art".
Art Nouveau is an approach to design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of everyday life.
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corbeling
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layers of flat stones without mortar to form walls with each layer further inward that the previous
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cupola
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A dome, usually small, topping a roof.
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Caryatid
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sculptured female figure used as an architectural support, such as a column
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Balloon Framing
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the first-floor joists rest directly on a sill plate and the second-floor joists bear on ribbon (ledger) strips set into the studs
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minaret
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a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
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merlon
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(in a battlement) the solid part between two crenels.
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frieze
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the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief
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nave
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the principal longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex to the chancel, usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the congregation.
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quincunx
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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atrium
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a courtyard flanked or surrounded by porticoes
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desert varnish
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dark, lustrous coating on surfaces exposed to weathering in the desert
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Spanish Eclectic or Mediterranean
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Spanish-style architecture takes its cues from the missions of the early Spanish missionaries—such as the one at San Juan Capistrano in California
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Notre Dame of Paris:
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has incredible flying buttresses; contains a 13th century statue of Mary (not contraposto; single curve; graceful)
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Prarie Style
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Frank Lloyd Wright is essentially the "father" of this style. Style focused specifically on midwestern regionalism, with its horizontal, open floor plans representing the expansive prairie region. Though avoiding historical stylistic trends of the competing period styles, this style made subtle use of Japanese architecture, specifically that culture's use of horizontal space, flowing interior spaces, hipped roofs with broad eaves, and long bands of windows that apparently invoke the idea of Japanese screens (small, patterned pane glass). Though short-lived in the U.S., this is the first American style to be taken seriously in Europe.
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Buttress
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a prop; a structure built against a wall for support
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oculus
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the opening of the ceiling in the Pantheon
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Engaged column
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a semi detached column exactly or slightly or slight more than semicircular in plan
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Platform Framing
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the second floor rests directly on first-floor exterior walls.
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castellated
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built like a castle, esp. with turrets and battlements.
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madrasa
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a school or college, esp. a school attached to a mosque where young men study theology.
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georgian
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of or pertaining to the period of British history from the accession of George I in 1714 to the death of George IV in 1830, or the four kings named George who reigned successively during this period.
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facade
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the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one; any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly
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spandrel
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an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
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tuscan order
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Roman order that resembles the Doric order but without a fluted shaft
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paradise
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an enclosure beside a church such as an atrium or cloister
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Saucer dome
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a dome thats flatter than a true dome
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Form Follows Function
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An author will mold the formal elements of work in such a way that they serve his purposes for the artistic work as a whole
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acropolis
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the city on a hill in Greece, had number of temples
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Gothic stained glass
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colored glass used to form decorative or pictorial designs
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transverse arch
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a supporting arch or rib that runs across a vault from side to side, dividing the bays.
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podium
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a low wall forming a base for a construction, as a colonnade or dome; the masonry supporting a classical temple
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Pillar Statue
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Used at Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel
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lunette
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an area of wall enframed by an arch or vault
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