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repulsiove
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odrażający
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Nighthawks
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funcion
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function
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lancet arch
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Campanile
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Bell tower
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Le Corbusier
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Villa Savoye
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Zaha Hadid
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designed CAC
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Applied Ornamentation
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Neo-Gothic tracery.
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Steel frame
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made skyscrappers possible.
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Nash
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Royal Pavilion at Brighton
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Colisseum
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Gladiator fights. 80 AD
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brickwork
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część budowli zbudowana z cegieł
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Guarantee Building
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By Louis Sullivan
Tri-Partite organization.
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Psychological structure
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(e.g. St Petersberg Pier)
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Guarini, San Lorenzo, Turin (1670)
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Crystal Palace
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Joseph Paxton
London, England
20th century
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Santa Sabina
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Architect: Unknown
Title: Santa Sabina
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: 422-432
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Louis Le-Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, The Hall of Mirrors (La Galarie des Glaces), Palace of Versailles, 1678
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Central Library
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Mecanoo
Delft University of Technology
Delft, Netherlands
needed it center of campus, 2 sides of interdisciplinary faculty offices, third side a huge computer lab. Library usually separate but here is mixed. Offices in library so easy for faculty to get books, humanism at larger scale, periodic natural relief.
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Frieze
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in house construction, a horizontal member connecting the top of the siding with the soffit of the cornice
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Corinthian column
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most elaborate type of capital
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World's Columbian Exhibition, Burnham & Olmstead
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Chicago, 1893
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Pei
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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coastal plain
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what physiographic province is Atchafalaya located in?
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Adler and Sullivan, Guaranty Building, Buffalo (1890)
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Acropolis
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Acropolis: High City. Beautiful sacred place in Athens.
Parthenon and Temple to Athena Nike sits on top.
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Organic Architecture
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Philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site that the buildings, furnishings, and surroundings became part of a unified, interrelated composition.
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Drum
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the circular vertical wall supporting a dome; a stone block forming part of a column.
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mastaba
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small mound of stone. pharaoh buried far below. base looks like pyramid. shaft to drop food/offerings. stones dropped to seal chambers
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House of parliament
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example of gothic architecure. designed by Charles Barry. rebuilt after burning taxes ignited the whole place on fire.
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structure
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anything that is built or constructed and has a plan
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Reliance Building, Daniel Burnham & John Welborn Root
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Chicago, 1889-91
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Siting (verb)
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to put in position for operation
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who was Thoreau mentored by?
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Burke
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TASTE. groundwork of taste is common to all. cause of wrong taste is a defect of judgment. SUBLIME strongest emotion that the mind is capable of is the sublime. pain is more intense than pleasure.
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Groin Vault
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Tunnel vaults meeting at right angles
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tartan grid
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allows services to be carried vertically and horizontally so that at no point in a room are services more than ten feet away
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Moorish
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A style of architecture common in Spain from the 13th to 16th centuries; characterized by horseshoe-shaped arches
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Queen Hatshepsut
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Only woman pharaoh, located in Deir-el-Bahari
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trilithons
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two upright tones capped by a single lintel
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Pierre L'Enfant
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Redesigned washington D.C. laid it out in grid style. wanted to created a unifed concept expressed through physical forms. most important is the charcter of the street.
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What flourished in the Golden Age?
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Art and Architecture
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Stele of Ur-nammu
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c. 2100 BCE
Great builder
Adoration of gods
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Art Academy
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adjacent to art museum in Eden Park
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Aldo Leopold
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Who said/wrote "these things I ponder as the kettle sings...."
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Post-Lintel
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The type of building structure used in most ancient architecture up to the Roman Era.
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frontal
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dealing with the front of an object; three dimensional works that incite observation and appreciation primarily from one vantage point
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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
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Gunnar Birkerts Organic/crystalline building form, unique use of concrete
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Cella/Naos
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the inner area of an ancient temple, esp. one housing the hidden cult image in a Greek or Roman temple.
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Threshold
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a strip of wood or metal with beveled edges used over the finish floor and the sill of exterior doors
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While it is possible to take steps to avoid looking at paintings, sculpture and other visual arts, architecture is
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unavoidable.
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Thomas Cole
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Who started the Hudson River School of art?
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Tympanum
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The surface above a door and below an arch, usually filled with sculptured figures
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Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum
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Steven Holl Organic/ linear building form, unique use of natural light
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Awning window
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a window that swings out and is hinged at the top
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Hudson River School
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Duncanson was drawn to these work in NY
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dematerialization
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? as one in which the art object was dematerialised through the new artistic practices of conceptual art
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parapet
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a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony
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Shot heard round the world, minute men, the rude bridge across the flood
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what does the concord hymm celebrate
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