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Florence Cathedral

The largest medieval cathedral and is somewhat German in character in north Italy.

Casa Mila

The last civil work of Antonio Gaudi. Popularly known as La Pedrera meaning the Quarry. Declared a UNESCO heritage site in 1984

Telamon

The later male counterpart of the caryatid and the name refers to the legend of Atlas,

Plinth

The lowest square member of the base of a column

Stereobate

The lowest step in the crepidoma.

Scopas

The master sculptor of The temple of Artemis, Ephesus. Also called the Hellinistic temple.

Pheidias

The master sculptor of the Parthenon

Trajans Column

The memorial column built in the form of tall Doric order and made entirely if marble is

Marble

The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her domains had ample supply of was.

Bird's Beak

The molding that is often found in the Doric Order.

Epidauros

The most beautiful and best preserved of the Greek theaters.

Pantheon

The most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient buildings in Rome.

Hagia Sophia

The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome.

Great Temple, Abu Simbel

The most stupendous and impressive of the rock-cut-temples.

Serdab

The offering table in a Mastaba is called ________.

Forum Maximus

The oldest and most important example of a Roman forum

Forum Romanum

The oldest and most important forum in Rome.

Circus Maximus

The oldest circus in Rome.

Cortel

The open court in an Italian palazzo.

Timber-enframed Portal

The origin of the door architrave.

Tracery

The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window.

Pisa

The outstanding group of Romanesque is found in ___.

Seraglio

The palace proper in Assyrian palaces.

Seraguo

The palace proper of an Assyrian Palace?

Transept

The part of a cruciform church, projecting at right angles to the main building. Wings of church: the part of a cross-shaped church that runs at right angles to the long central part (nave)

Balteus

The part of the Corinthian capital without flower.

Naos

The principal chamber in a Greek temple containing the statue of deity.

Nave

The principal or central longitudinal area of a church, extending from the main entrance or narthex to the CHANCEL (area of church near altar: an area of a church near the altar for the use of clergy and choir, often separated from the nave by a screen or steps) usually flanked by aisles of less height

Nave

The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or chancel and usually flanked by aisles.

Domus

The private house of the Romans.

Ornamental Arcades

The prominent feature of the facades in Romanesque Central Italy.

Forum

The public square of imperial Rome.

Lao Tse

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in

Unctuaria

The room for oils and unguents in the thermae.

cella

The sanctuary of a classical temple, containing the cult statue of the God.

Cella

The sanctuary of a classical temple, containing the cult statue of the god

cimborio

The screen/ ornamental work rising behind the altar.

Prytaneion

The senate house of the Greeks.

Hypotrachelion

The shaft of the Greek Doric order terminates where?

Arris

The sharp edge formed by the meeting of two surface usually in DORIC columns

Thalamus

The sleeping room of the 'megaron'.

Chancel

The space about the altar of a church, usually separated by a screen for the clergy and other officials, usually referred to as the "choir

Pteroma

The space between the colonnade and the naos wall in Greek temple.

Triforium

The space between the sloping roof over the aisle and the aisle vaulting, so also called a blind story.

Intercolumnation

The space between two columns

Cancelli

The space for the clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from the body of the church called ___.

acanthus scroll

The special characteristic of the Roman ornament

Crepidoma

The steps forming the base of a columned Greek temple

Hagia Sophia

The structure that is said to be the epitome of Byzantine architecture

Romanesque

The style emerging in western Europe in the early 11th century, based on Roman and Byzantine elements, and powerful vaults, and lasting until the advent of Gothic architecture.characterized by massive articulated wall structures, round arches,

Doric

The style of the order with massive and tapering columns resting on a base of 3 steps.

St. Sophia, Constantinople

The supreme monument of Byzantine architecture.

Kerloas menhir

The tallest menhir in Brittany at 9.5m high.

Spire

The tapering termination of a tower in Gothic churches

3 naos and Atlantes figures

The temple of Zeus, Agrigentum, second largest Greek temple has an unusual feature. What is it?

Steeple

The term applied to a tower crowned by a spire

Cathedral

The term applied to the Episcopal church of the diocese and also the important structure of the Gothic period.

Pronaos, Naos, and Epinaos

The three chamber of a Greek temple.

Cheops / Chefren/ Mykerinos

The three pyramids in Gizeh

Diazoma

The tier of seats in the Greek theatre are separated by?

Crypt

The tomb beneath a church.

Lamin

The tower atop the torogan where the princess and her ladies in waiting hide during occasions.

Tympanum

The triangular or segmental space enclosed by a pediment or arch.

Spandrel

The triangular space enclosed by the curve of an arch, a vertical line from its springing, a horizontal line through its apex. A space between one arch or another. Space between two arches and a cornice

Tympanum

The triangular surface bounded by the sloping and horizontal cornices of a pediment.

Stylobate

The uppermost step in the crepidoma.

Marble

The use of ___ for facing walls distinguishes Romanesque architecture in Italy from that of the rest of Europe.

Persian

The use of monsters in doorways is prevalent in what architecture?

Waggon-Headed Vault

The vault that is carried throughout its length on the two parallel walls of a rectangular apartment

Flutes

The vertical channeling on the shaft of a column; architecture: groove in column: a groove running down an architectural column

Baroque

The very ornate style of architecture developed in the later renaissance period.

Opus quadratum

The wall facing developed by Romans which is made of recctangular blocks of stone, with or without mortar joints but frequently secured with dowels or cramps

Opus testaceum

The wall facing developed by the Romans which is made of brick facing with stones cut in triangular form

Opus reticulatum

The wall facing developed by the Romans which is made of rectangular, net-like stone work

Peribolus

The wall or colonnade enclosing the Temenos

peribolus

The wall or colonnade enclosing the temenos

Tepidarium

The warm room in the Thermae

Tepidarium

The warm room in the Thermae.

Cyma Reversa

The water-leaf and tongue is a usual ornament found in the ___.

Bay Window

The window of a protruded bay or the windowed bay itself. A protruding window: a rounded or three-sided window that sticks out from an outside wall and forms a recess on the inside

Pyramid of Zoser

The world's first large-scale monument in stone.

Palace of Persepolis

The xerxes hall of hundred columns was introduced during the Mesopotamian architecture, which palace was it used.

Triumphal Arch

These are arches erected to emperors and generals commemorating victorious campaigns; has one or three openings. Such arches were adorned with appropriate bas-reliefs (flat sculpture; slightly projecting) and usually carried grit-bronze statuary (statues considered collectively) on an attic storey and having a dedicatory inscription in its face

Gazebo

These are garden rooms.

Dosseret block

Thick abacus of byzantine capital.

Barasoain Church

This church in the Philippines is the seat of the Malolos Congress.

Panay Capiz

This church, 1st built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Murguia, has an unusually large bell which was made from approximately 70 sacks of coins donated by the towns people.

Terms

This is a pedestal with human, animal, or mythological creatures at the top.

Tower of the Winds, Athens

This structure in Greece was erected by Andronikos Cyrrhestes for measuring time by means of a clepsydra internally and sun dial externally.

Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens

This temple is dedicated to 'Wingless Victory'.

Tomb of Agamemnon

Tomb of Atreus, a noted example of the tholos type of tomb is also known as

Dolmen

Tomb of standing stone usually capped with a large horizontal slab

Pyramid

Tomb of the pharaohs.

Rock-Hewn Tombs

Tombs built for the Egyptian nobility rather than the royalty.

1.500 mi

Total length of the Great Wall of China (in miles)

Agora

Town square, was the center of social and business life, around which were stoas, or colonnaded porticoes, temples, markets, public buildings, monuments, shrines.

Nile River

Travel and trade route in Egypt

Pediment

Triangular piece of wall above the entablature.

Voussoirs

Truncated wedge-blocks forming an arc

Pinacle

Turret(medieval) ; minaret (Islamic);steeple (church tower & spire)(term use for spire crowned towers)

CESAR ANTONIO PELLI

Two International Finance Centre Hong Kong

Mortuary and Cult Temples

Two main classes of temples in Egyptian Architecture.

Megalithic

Type of construction that uses large stones

Centralized

Type of plan of the Byzantine churches.

Batter wall

Type of wall that diminishes in width towards the top

Lotus, Papyrus and Palm capitals

Types of Egyptian capitals (3)

Step, Slope, Bend

Types of Egyptian pyramids (3)

Wallace Harrison

UN Building

Obelisk

Upright stone square in plan, with an electrum-capped pyramidion on top, symbolizing the sun god Heliopolis; comes in pairs

Dispensa

Used as food storage in the Bahay na Bato.

13

Usual number of stories for a Chinese pagoda.

13..

Usual number of stories for a Chinese pagoda.

sixtite

Vaulting compartment into six parts known as

Rib & Panel

Vaulting in Romanesque in which a framework of ribs supported thin stone panels. The new method consisted in designing the profile of the transverse (crosswise or at right angle with something), longitudinal and diagonal ribs to which the form of the panels was adopted

Mullions

Vertical members dividing windows into different number of lights

Mullion

Vertical members dividing windows into different numbers of lights.

Mullions

Vertical tracery members dividing windows into different numbers of light. A vertical window divider: a vertical piece of stone, metal, or wood that divides the panes of a window or the panels of a screen

tracery

Vertical tracery members dividing windows into different numbers of lights.

Ryugyong Hotel

Voted the "Worst Building in the History of Mankind". Found in north Korea. It is also known as 105 building.

Minoru Yamasaki

WORLD TRADE CENTER New York

Use of Concrete

What allowed the Romans to build vaults of a magnitude never equaled till the birth of steel for buildings.

Modern International

What architectural style did the architect of the Farnsworth house apply in desiging the residence?

Art Noveau

What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style?

The faces of the pyramids orient towards the cardinal points

What area of a pyramid is oriented towards the cardinal points?

Corners

What area of a ziggurat is oriented towards the cardinal points?

Sahn

What is a courtyard in Islamic architecture? (It is a common element in traditional mosques, religious buildings and residences throughout the Arab world.)

Juggendstijl

What is art noveau in Germany called?

Pinnacle

What is not required as a feature in modern Muslim mosque.

Sun shade

What is the function of the brise soleil?

Angkor Wat

What is the largest temple in the world?

Minarets

What is the most striking feature of Muslim Architecture?

Katig

What is used to balance the Tawi-Tawi boat when it is on water?

Titanium

What material was used in the facade of the Gughenheim Museum in Bilbao?

Tuscan and Composite

What orders did the Etruscans and the Romans add making 5 in all?

Wrestling

What sporting event takes place in the Palaestra?

Moscow

Where "Constructivism" originated?

Sumer

Which civilization is one of the earliest cities with a fortified wall?

Composite

Which of the order was added by the Romans to the orders used by the Greeks.

Thothmes I

Who began the building of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak?

Xerxes

Who commenced the 'hall of hundred columns'?

Artaxerxes

Who completed the 'hall of hundred columns'?

Santiago Calatrava

Who designed the Auditorio de Tenerife? Or presently known as Adan Martin.

Carlos Arguelles

Who designed the Philamlife Building located at United Nations Avenue in Manila?

Antonio Gaudi

Who designed the Sagrada Familia?

Minoru Yamasaki

Who designed the World Trade Center in New York?

Senusret I

Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.

Le Corbusier

Who formulated a set of architectural principles known as The Five Points of Architecture?

Le Corbusier

Who is Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris?

Caesar Homer Concio

Who is the Filipino architect who stated that "the structure must be well oriented"?

Otto Wagner

Who is the architect of the Austrian Postal Savings building?

Raymond Hood

Who is the architect of the Daily News Building located in Manhattan, New York? (It became a National Historic Landmark in 1988)

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

Who is the architect of the Farnsworth house?

Auguste Perret

Who pioneered "Beton Brut"?

Le Corbusier

Who popularized "Beton Brut"?

Richard Josef Neutra

Who said "A house is like a flower pot"?

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

Who said "God is in the details"?

Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

Who said "Less is more"?

Kenzo Tange

Who said "Modern Architecture need not be western"?

Le corbusier

Who said "The house is a machine to live in"?

Cass Gilbert

Who was the architect of the Cathedral of Commerce?

Sostratus

Who was the architect of the Lighthouse/Pharos of Alexandria?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Who was the architect of the Robie House?

Parmeniskos (It was under the reign of Ptolemy III that is was built)

Who was the architect of the Serapeum of Alexandria?

Tomas Mapua

Who was the first Filipino architect?

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Who won the design competition for the set of bronze doors of the Baptisery of the Cathedral in Florence?

9-24m

Width of batter walls used in Egyptian Architecture

Arch and vault

With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, the Romans achieved huge interiors with the.

Harem

Women's or private quarters of a house or place in Islamic architecture.

Cass Gilbert

Woolworth Building, NY

Casa Batllo

Work of Antonio Gaudi that has an undulating facade decorated with a colorful mosaic of broken ceramic tiles, the roof is arched and has a unique chimney.

Old New Synagogue

World's oldest "active" synagogue

Ulm Minster

World's tallest church

Columnar and trabeated

[Construction system] Egyptian Architecture

Great Temple of Ammon, Karnak

[Egypt] Greatest example of a temple (cult temple)

Hypaethral court

[Egypt] Part of the temple that is open to the sky

Temple of Hatshepsut

[Egypt] Temple with 3 tiers, seemingly carved out of the rock; built by Senenmut

Cult temples

[Egypt] Temples in honor of their gods.

Mortuary temples

[Egypt] Temples made for the pharoahs

Hypostyle Hall

[Egypt] part of the temple on which the roof rests; portrays a marsh in the beginning of time; literally means "under columns"

Pylon

[Egyptian] Monumental gateway to the temple consisting of slanting walls flanking the entrance portal.

Arcuated

[Sumerian] Type of construction

Niche

a (shell) or a recess in a wall, hallowed like a shell for a statue or ornament.

Font

a basin usually of stone which holds the water for baptism.

Torus

a large convex moulding used principally in the bases of columns.

Fortress

a large fortified (armed) place; a fort often including a town; any place of security.

Dais

a raised platform reserved for the seating of speakers and dignitaries; a raised platform: a raised platform at the end of a hall or large room. [podium, platform, pulpit, stage]

bauhaus

a school founded by Gropius in 1919, developing a form of training intended to relate art and architecture to technology and the practical needs of human life.

Iconostasis

a screen in a Greek orthodox church on which icons or (sacred images), pictures, are placed separating the chancel from the space, open to the laity. An altar screen decorated with icons: a screen on which icons are mounted, used in Eastern Orthodox churches to separate the area around the altar from the main part of the church

Fillets

a small flat band between mouldings to separate them from each other. architecture flat narrow moulding: a raised or sunken ornamental surface set between larger surfaces

Minaret

a tall tower in, or continuous to a mosque arch stairs leading up to one or more balconies from which the faithful are called to prayer

Rococo

a term applied to a type of Renaissance ornament in which rock-like forms fantastic scrolls, and 'crimped' folded or pressed together) shells (are worked up together in a profusion and confusion of detail often without organic coherence but presenting a lavish display of decoration; Any excessively ornate or fancy style; A style of architecture and the decorative arts characterized by intricate ornamentation that was popular throughout Europe in the early 18th century.

Baloon Framing

a type of timber framing in America about 1820s wherein it owes its strength to the walls, roof acting as diaphragms, and not on the post. It is an extension of the roof.

Themenos

acropolis, sacred enclosure

Vault

an arch covering in stone or brick over any building; architecture arched ceiling: an arched structure of stone, brick, wood, or plaster that forms a ceiling or roof; a room with arched ceiling: a room, especially an underground room, with an arched ceiling

Ecclectism

architecture OF THE borrowing and OF free selection

Mudejar

architecture.

Glypthoteca

bldg that hold sculpture

Pinacotheca

bldg that holds painting

Lacunaria

coffer, ceiling

Nea Moni

cross-arms, roofed by a dome which spans to the outer walls of the building.

Elisha Graves Otis

developed the first safe passenger elevator. In addition to this, was the development of techniques for manufacturing rolled steel

Intramuros

famous walled city within a city; seven gates; completed 1872; made of bricks and hard adobe from the Pasig River quarries; wall are 45 ft thick and rise 25 ft above the moat; structures inside the city include:

Propylaea

gateway to greek temple

Cloisters

house, refectory and other parts of the monastery.

Circus Maximus

largest circus in Rome

Forum of Trajan

largest forum in Rome

Choragic Monument

musical competitions in Greek festivals.

Forum Romanum

oldest & most important bldg in Rome

Stoa

patio (Spanish outdoor living or dining);VERANDAH (a porch or balcony for summer leisure); LOGGIA

Thalamus

sleeping room, megaron

Turret

small towers, often containing stairs, and forming special features in medieval buildings.

Peroma

space bet naos wall and column

lingtai

spirit altar: a raised astronomical observatory in Chinese architecture, usually the central, circular upper story of the mingtang.

Serdab

statue chamber

Cloisters

the covered passage around an open space or garth, connecting the church to the chapter

Daado

the portion of a pedestal between its base and cornice. A term also applied to the lower portions of walls when decorated separately.

Pendentive

the term applied to the triangular curved overhanging surface by means of which a circular dome is supported over a square or polygonal compartment. a sloping triangular piece of vaulting between the arches that support a dome and its rim

Dromos

tholos passageway

Renaissance

!5th to 18th century architecture.

Louis Khan

" "A house is a house" "

Pisa Cathedral

" 103 to 1350 Location: Pisa, Italy Building type: church complex Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone, white marble Style: Romanesque ""Pisa Cathedral with Baptistery, Campanile and Campo Santo, together form one of the most famous building groups in the world the cathedral complex includes the famous Leaning Tower, La Torre Pendente white marble with colonnaded facades "

Krak des Chevaliers

" 1150 to 1250 Location: Syria Building type: fort Style: Medieval crusader castle the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world "

Florence Cathedral

" 1296 to 1462 Architect: Arnolfo di Cambio Location: Florence, Italy Building type: domed church, cathedral Construction system: bearing masonry Style: Italian Romanesque 1296: Cathedral begun on design by Arnolfo di Cambio 1357: Project continued on a modified plan by Francesco Talenti 1366-7: Talenti's definitive design emerged calling for an enormous octagonal dome 1418: competition for construction of dome. 1420: technical solution for vaulting proposed by Brunelleschi approved and construction begun The Duomo - dome added by Brunelleschi 1436— church consecrated "

Alhambra

" 1338 to 1390 Location: Granada, Spain Building type: palace Construction system: bearing masonry Style: Moorish (Islamic) palace of Nasrid Dynasty the most beautiful remaining example of Western Islamic Architecture built as a cathedral in the mid-1200's "hall of justice": noted from its elaborate stalactite (maqarnas) decoration "

Sagrada Familia

" 1882 to 1926 Architect: Antonio Gaudi Location: Barcelona, Spain Building type: church Construction system: masonry Style: Expressionist Church of the Holy Family uncompleted during Gaudi's lifetime crowned by four spires "

Casa Batllo

" 1905 to 1907 Architect: Antonio Gaudi Location: Barcelona, Spain Building type: apartment building Construction system: concrete Style: Expressionist or Art Nouveau uses animal styles al through-out the structure "

Casa Mila

" 1905 to 1910 Architect: Antonio Gaudi Location: Barcelona, Spain Building type: multifamily housing Construction system: masonry and concrete Style: Art Nouveau expressionistic, fantastic, organic forms in undulating facade and roof line light court it could be compared with the steep cliff walls in which African tribes build their cave-like dwellings "

Hagia Sofia

" 532 to 537 Architect: Isidoros and Anthemios Location: Istanbul, Turkey Building type: church Construction system: bearing masonry Style: Byzantine a tremendous domed space built as the new Cathedral of Constantinople by the Emperor Justinian a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture additional minarets when the church became a mosque "

Temple of Heaven

" Location: China 700 acre enclosure built by the Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle (Yung-Io) means "Perpetual Help" "

Cathedral of Siena

" Location: Southern Italy incorporated Gothic elements in a strongly Mediterranean design "

Post War Architecture

" - mediocre design, uncontrolled and hasty rebuilding only resurrected old designs - commercial building drew inspiration from contemporary architecture in the West - development of community planning - BUNGALOW - introduced in 1948; one-storey house with wide picture windows, a lanai and a carport for up to three cars - modern architecture with a renewed interest in Filipino motifs a. use of pointed roofs, lattices, screens, wood carvings b. architecture of LEANDRO LOCSIN and FRANCISCO MANOSA "

transept

" A circular or polygonal apse when surrounded by an ambulatory of which are chapels. "

Pier Luigi Nervi

" Italian architect and engineer, whose technical innovations, particularly in the use of reinforced concrete, made possible aesthetically pleasing solutions to difficult structural problems. Discovered "ferro-cemento" - consist of layers of fine steel mesh sprayed w/ cement mortar & it could be used either for shell construction or for heavier units w/ reinforcing rods inserted between the layers of mortar & mesh. WORKS: Municipal Stadium Florence Fiat Factory, Turin Italian Embassy, Brazilia Papal Audience Hall, Vatican City Australian Embassy, Paris "

Kenzo Tange

" Japanese architect, the most prominent modern architect of the country. In his designs for public buildings, has reconciled 20th-century Western styles and materials with traditional Japanese forms. Furyu Anti realist attitude, anti action element in the Japanese life. PHILOSOPHIES: " Modern Architecture need not be Western." " The city must be subjected to growth, decay and renewal." "

Theatre of Dionysus

" prototype Greek Thetre - largest for 30,000 people "

10 books of architecture by Vitruvius

""The man of learning... can fearlessly look down upon the troublesome accidents of fortune. But he who thinks himself entrenched in defense not of learning but of luck, moves one slippery path, struggling though life unsteadily and insecurely." "

Rococco

"( FR. ROCALLE - ROCKWORK) A TERM APPLIED TO TYPE OF RENAISSANCE ORNAMENT IN W/C ROCK-LIKE FORMS, FANTASTIC SCROLLS, & CRIMPED SHELLS ARE WORK UP TOGETHER IN A PRO- FUSION & COMFUSION OF DETAIL OFTEN W/ OUT ORGANIC COHERENCE BUT PRESENTING A LAVISH DISPLAY OF DECORATION. "

Louis Khan

"(1901-1974), American architect and teacher, whose original, powerful designs in brick and concrete won him a prominent place in 20th-century architecture. Highly ordered sequence of space & noble structural systems. PHILOSOPHY: " Searching for a materials want to be." WORKS: Yale Art Gallery w/ Douglas Orr Alfred Newton Richard's Medical Center "

Caryatid

"(Greek Architecture) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head."

Roman Buildings

"1. The Pantheon 118 - 126 Architect: Acrippa Location: Rome, Italy Style: Ancient Roman great domed hall with oculus oculus - a single circular opening one of the great spiritual buildings of the world it was built as a Roman temple and later consecrated as a Catholic Church revived the use of brick and concrete in temple Architecture "

American Period

"1. a "regime" of reinforced concrete and galvanized iron 2. Neo-Classical styles 3. DANIEL BURNHAM - commissioned by Gov. General W.H. Taft to draft the Master Plan for Manila and government buildings (Agri-Finance Building, Senate Building, among others) 4. MASTER BUILDERS ("maestro de obras") acquired title either from practical experience or completed academic training of Master Builder's course 5. LICEO DE MANILA - first school to open three year course in architecture 6. TOMAS MAPUA - first licensed architect; established the second school (followed by UST and Adamson) 7. MASONIC TEMPLE, Escolta - first multi-storey reinforced concrete building in the Philippines 8. CHALET - suburban house; simple design with verandah in front or around the house; middle-class 9. 1930's - continued urban development; emergence of multi-storey, multi-family dwellings and commercial structures; distinct simplification of lines, emphasis on verticality; other architects contradicted the trend by putting horizontal strips of glass window "

Late Spanish Period

"1. roofs at 45 degrees gradient or less 2. use of bricks, limestone, hardwood, capiz shells (G.I. sheets and clay tiles or "tisa" were imported) 3. elaborate lace-like grillwork (1870's) 4. transoms with floral and foliate scroll work (1890's) 5. 1890's Art Nouveau brought swirling vines and flowers for staircase balustrades, etched or colored glass panels replaced capiz 6. emergence of Filipino and foreign architects working in the Philippines a. FELIX ROXAS - first Filipino architect; served as architect to the Manila government; studied in England and Spain b. JUAN HERVAS - a Catalan who was one of the Spanish architects invited to reconstruct Manila after the earthquake of 1863 and 1880 7. churches a. Sto. Domingo Church, Intramuros b. San Ignacio, Intramuros - first church designed by a Filipino architect c. San Sebastian Church, Manila - only Gothic church in the Philippines 8. brides a. Fuente de Espana - first bridge to span the Pasig River linking Intramuros and Binondo b. Colgante Bridge - suspension bridge; only for pedestrians; framework of iron imported from England "

American Structures

"1. the White House Architect: James Hoban Location: Washington, D.C. Date: 1793 to 1801, burned 1814, porticos 1824 to1829 Style: Georgian Neoclassical official residence of the president of the United States of America, for the last 200 years "

American Structures

"2. Capitol of the United States Architects: Thornton-Latrobe-Bulfinch Location: Washington, D.C. Date: 1793 to 1830 Style: Neoclassical meeting place of the U.S. Congress, the national assembly of the United States of America, consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate "

Roman Buildings

"2. Forums,Trajan's Forum 100 - 112 Architect: Apollodorus of Damascus Location: Rome, Italy Style: Roman composed of an arc of arched arcade most magnificent and architecturally most pleasing largest known forums "

Greek Buildings

"2. Parthenon-temple, Architect: Itchinus and Callicrates with Phidias Location: Athens, Greece Style: Ancient Greek Doric on the historic Acropolis. Doric exemplar "

Egyptian Buildings

"2. Pyramids, Pyramid of King Zoser Architect: Imhotep earliest pyramidal structure of the ancient world, the Step Pyramid (c.2630 BC) of King Zoser at Saqqara, Egypt consist of six terraces of receding sizes with a one staba The Great Pyramid the Pyramid of Khufu is the largest in the world, measuring 230m (756 ft) "

Egyptian Buildings

"6. Abu-Simbel, dedicated chieftly to Re-Harakhti, God of the rising sun built during the reign of Ramses II (1304 - 1237 BC) "

Roman Buildings

"6. Colosseum Coemeteria, Colosseum 70 - 82 Architect: Vespacian and Domitian Location: Rome, Italy Style: Ancient Roman three-quarter columns and entablatures, Doric in the first story, Ionic in the second, and Corinthian in the third, face the three tiers of arcades largest Roman Amphitheater designed to hold 50,000 spectators had approximately eighty entrances so crowds could arrive and leave easily and quickly "

Egyptian Buildings

"7. Temple of Luxor - or Southern Sanctuary at Luxor, Egypt, 18th dynasty king dedicated to Amon-Re, king of the Gods built of sandstone for the quarries of Gebel Silsila "

Caesar Homer Concio

"A Filipino architect whose philosophy is 'the structure must be well oriented'."

Firewall; Fireblock

"A ____________ is a ___________ which extends vertically from lowest portion of the wall which adjoins two living units up to a minimum height of 0.30 meters above the highest portion of the roof and extends horizontally 0.30 meters beyond the outermost edge of the abutting living units? "

Robert Mailart

"A bridge is like a house"

Console

"A decorative bracket usually taking the form of a cyma reversa strap."

Tabernacle

"A decorative niche often topped with a canopy and housing a statue."

Velarium

"A great awning drawn over roman theatres and amphitheatres to protect spectators against the sun "

Le Corbusier

"A house is a machine to live in".

Richard Josef Neutra

"A house is like a flower pot"

Le Corbusier

"A is a machine to live in".

Exedra

"A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church."

eyebrow

"A long dormer on the slope of a roof, it has no sides, the roofing being carried in a nave line. "

Royal pyramids

"A massive funerary structure of stone or brick with a square base and four sloping triangular sides meeting at the apex; used mainly in ancient Egypt. "

Menhir

"A megalithic structure consisting of several large stones set on end with a large covering slab "

Rustication

"A method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints, principally employed in Renaissance building. "

Rustication

"A method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints, principally employed in renaissance buildings "

Renaissance

"A movement which begun in Italy in the 15th century created a break in the continuous revolution of European times. "

battlement

"A parapet having a series of indentions or embrasures, between which are raised portions known as merlons "

Rayonnant

"A period in Gothic Architecture in France characterized by circular windows with wheel tracery "

machicolations

"A projecting wall or parapet allowing floor openings, through w/c molten lead, pitch, stones were dropped only on an enemy below. "

crocket

"A projection block or spur of stone carried with foliage to decorate the raking lines formed by angles of spires and canopies. "

Bema

"A raised stage reserved for the clergy in early Christian churches."

pilaster strips

"A rectangular feature in the shape of a pillar, but projecting only about one sixth of its breath from wall "

nymphaneum

"A room decorated with plants, sculpture and fountains (often decorated with nymphs) and intended for relaxation. "

Apse

"A semi-circular or semi-polygonal space, usually in church, terminating in axis and intended to house an altar."

Camber

"A slight convex curvature built into truss or beam to compensate for any anticipated deflection so that it will have no sag when under load. "

crypt

"A space entirely or partly under a building in churches generally beneath the chancel and used for burial in early times. "

Tokonama

"A special feature of Japanese houses, used to display a flower arrangement or art."

Pendentive

"A spherical triangle forming the transition from the circular plan of a dome to the poly-gonal plan of its supporting structure."

bailey

"A squared timber used in bldg. construction or a low ridge of earth that marks a boundary line "

Mannerism

"A style in the architecture Italy I the second half of the 16th century and to a lesser extent elsewhere in Europe. It uses classical elements in an unconventional manner."

mannerists

"A term coined to describe the characteristics of the output of Italian renaissance architects of the period 1530-1600. Characterized by unconventional use of classical elements "

Mudejar

"A term given to the mixture of Christian, Spanish, and Muslim 12th-16th century architecture."

polychromy

"A term originally applied to the art of decorative painting in many colors, extended to the coloring of sculpture to enhance naturalism, also described to the application of variegated materials to achieve brilliant or striking effects "

wreath

"A twisted band, garland or chaplet, representing flowers, fruits, leaves often used in decoration. "

Opus Incertum

"A type of Roman wall facing which is made of small stone laid in a loose pattern roughly resembling polygonal work."

Opus Mixtum

"A type of Roman wall facing with alternating courses of brickworks."

strapwork

"A type of relief ornament or cresting resembling studded leather straps, arranged in geometrical and sometimes interlaced patterns; much used in the early renaissance archre in England. "

Opus Quadratum

"A type of roman wall facing with rectangular block with or without mortar joints."

reja

"A vertical steel support cast iron was used until relatively cheap steel became available. "

Gustave Eiffel

"Afterwards became deeply involved in the design and building of French railways and bridges. He worked on structures such as bridge across the Garonne River, train stations at Toulouse and again in France. "

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron

"Allianz Arena "

Robert Charles Venturi

"American architect and teacher, one of the most influential architectural theorists of the late 20th century. PHILOSOPHIES: " We promote an architecture responsive to the complexities and contradictions of the modern experience. The particularities of context, the varieties of the user's taste; Culture & the symbolic & decorative dictates of the program." " Less is Bore" "More is More" " Modern movement was almost right" WORKS: Walker & Dunlop Office Building Transportation Square, Washington Master Plan & Uraban Design of California City Convention Center, Conversion plan Canada West Mount Airy Clustered Housing Plan Philadelphia "

"American architect, born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Harvard University in the classics and later in architecture The architect who equated with an exhibition of modern architecture (1932) Invented the 'International Style' Father figure of 'Post Modernism.' INTERNATIONAL STYLE Volume rather than mass. Regularity rather than axial symmetry Prescribing arbitrarily applied decorations. WORKS: Glass hose, Connecticut Seagram Building, N.Y. (w/Mies Van Der Rohe) Theatre of the Dance, Lincoln Center Williams Proctor Museum, N.Y. Art Gallery for the University of Nebraska Ammon Corter Museum, Texas AT&T Building N.Y. "

"American architect, born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at Harvard University in the classics and later in architecture The architect who equated with an exhibition of modern architecture (1932) Invented the 'International Style' Father figure of 'Post Modernism.' INTERNATIONAL STYLE Volume rather than mass. Regularity rather than axial symmetry Prescribing arbitrarily applied decorations. WORKS: Glass hose, Connecticut Seagram Building, N.Y. (w/Mies Van Der Rohe) Theatre of the Dance, Lincoln Center Williams Proctor Museum, N.Y. Art Gallery for the University of Nebraska Ammon Corter Museum, Texas AT&T Building N.Y. "

Sir Christopher Wren

"An English Architect who prepared plan for London i.e., St. Peter 's and St. Paul Cathedral; Proposed a Network of Avenues connecting the main features of London."

Sir Christopher Wren

"An English Architect who prepared plan for London i.e., St. Peter 's and St. Paul Cathedral; Proposed a Network of Avenues connecting the main features of London. "

Stoa

"An ancient Greek Portico, a long colonnaded shelter used in public places."

buttress

"An arch starting from a detached pier and abutting against a wall to take the thrust of the vaulting. "

tudor

"An architectural style which in its period is the English equivalent of the high gothic of northern France first pointed. "

Robert Adam

"An important Scottish architect who was particularly known for his interiors based on classical decoration. "

scroll

"An ornament consisting of a spirally wound band, either as a running ornament or as a terminal. "

fretwork

"An ornament in classic or renaissance archre consisting of an assembly of straight lines intersecting at right angles of various patterns. Also called key pattern "

Baldachino

"An ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently place over the altar in a church."

Antefix

"An upright ornament at the eaves of a tile roof, concealing the foot of a row of convex tiles that cover the joints of the flat tiles."

Embrasures

"Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement."

French Architecture

"Arc de Triomphe Napoleon, the French emperor decided to build a very big arch of triumph, which stands at the top of the Champs Elysees "

Anthemius and Isidorus

"Architects of the Hagia Sophia. (St. Sophia, Constantinople)"

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Architecture is Organic".

domestic

"Architecture was marked by copy roofs which frequently had more storey than the walls, and were provided with dormer windows to make through current of air for their use as a drying ground for the large monthly wash "

Jugendstijl

"Art Noveau is known as the international style, in Germany it is known as ___."

Walter Gropius

"Art and Architecture, the new unity"

Philip Jhonson

"At & T Building, NY "

Louis Sullivan

"Auditorium Building, Chicago "

Ieoh Ming Pei

"Bank of China, Hong Kong "

English architecture

"British Museum 1823 to 1847 Architect: Sir Robert Smirke Location: London, England Building type: art and historical museum, library Construction system: masonry, cut stone Style: Victorian Ionic façade, Classical Revival Includes one of the world's great library rooms. Glazed roof over restored courtyard by Norman Foster "

English architecture

"Buckingham Palace Architect: sir George Goring built during the reign of king James I "

Morong Church

"Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas dela Madre, this church in Rizal whose design depicts the heavy influence of Spanish Baroque, was declared a national treasure."

Reem Koolhaas

"CCTV China "

Romanesque Architecture

"CHARACTERIZED BY CLEAR PLANS, MASSIVE ARTICULATED WALL STRUCTURES, ROUND ARCHES, & POWERFUL VAULTS"

Gothic Architecture

"CHARACTERIZED BY POINTED ARCH, THE GRADUAL REDUCTION OF THE WALLS TO A SYSTEM OF RICHLY DECORATED FENESTRATION"

Renaissance Architecture

"CHARACTERIZED BY THE USE OF THE CLASSICAL ORDERS, ROUND ARCHES, and SYMMETRICAL COMPOSITION."

Oscar Niemeyer

"Catedral de Brasilia "

newel

"Central shaft of a circular staircase also applied to the post in which the handrail is framed. "

French Architecture

"Chartres Cathedral 1194 to 1260 Location: Chartres, France Building type: cathedral Construction system: bearing masonry Style: Gothic exemplar the elevation was in three tiers as it had no gallery and the vaulting was quadripartite, which eliminated the need for alternating supports supreme monument of High Gothic art and architecture "

English architecture

"Chiswick House 1729 Architect: Lord Burlington Location: Chiswick, England Building type: large house Construction system: bearing masonry Style: Palladian also known as "Burlington House" "

Joseph Paxton

"Chrystal Palace "

Tadao Ando

"Church of the Light, Osaka "

Le corbusier

"Cube within a cube"

Functionalism

"Cubist style developed in Germany and Austria (1900s).CHARACTERISTICS: Devoid of ornamentation Symmetrical/Assymetrical plans Overlapping & intersecting 2-dimensional planes that enclose 3-dimensional space. Pure color like white & grey of exterior walls. Distribution of wall to window space is approximately equal. "

English architecture

"Durham Cathedral 1093 to 1280 Location: Durham, England Building type: church, cathedral Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone Style: Romanesque one of the most impressive Norman Romanesque style in Europe had a reciprocal influence on the architecture of Normady the rib vault covering of Durham Cathedral is the oldest example that has survived "

Jacques Germain Souflot

"EGLIS STE. GENEVIEVE (THE PANTHEON (1755-1792) PARIS FRANCE "

Jacobean Architecture

"ENGLISH ARCH'L & DECORATIVE STYLE OF THE EARLY 17th CENT. , ADAPTING THE ELIZABETHAN STYLE TO CONTINENATL RENAISSANCE INLUENCES; NAMED AFTER JAMES I "

Tumuli

"Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons."

French Architecture

"Eiffel Tower 1887 to 1889 Architect: Gustave Eiffel Location: Paris, France Building Type: exposition observation tower Construction system: exposed iron Style: Victorian Structural Expressionist dominates the sky line of Paris one of the most famous landmarks in the world built for the Paris Exposition of 1889 "

Gustave Eiffel

"Eiffel Tower, Paris "

Santiago Calatrava

"El Auditorio de Tenerife "

French Architecture

"Elysee Palace 1718 Architect: Claude Mollet official residence of the president of France "

Cromlech

"Enclosure formed by huge stones planted on the ground in circular form."

Greek Buildings

"Epidaurus Theater Architect: Polykleitos Location: Epidauros, or Epidhavros, Greece Style: Ancient Greek and the quality of its acoustics make the Epidaurus theatre one of the great architectural achievements of the fourth century. the largest and best preserved ancient theaters in Greece. can accommodate 14,000 spectators. "

Shah-Jehan

"Erected to the memory of his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal, it was the culminating work in the life of the emperor. "

Greek Buildings

"Erectheum _ Architect: Mnesicles Location: Athens, Greece Style: Ancient Greek, Ionic has Caryatid Porch with figural columns. On the Acropolis, uses grade change. "

Eero Saarinen

"Finnish-American architect and designer, son of Eliel Saarinen and one of the leading architects of the mid-20th century. PHILOSOPHIES: " Function influences but does not dictate form." "Spiritual function is inseparable from practical function." "Architecture is not just to fulfill man's belief in the nobility of his exsistence on earth." WORKS: Saint Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial The General Motors Technical Center, Warren Michigan:1948-1956 Air Force Acadaemy U.S. Embassy in London The Chapel & Kresge Auditorium, Massachussetts Institute of Technology T.W.A. Terminal, Kennedy Terminal, N.Y. - In a for m of bird about to fly. T.J. Watson Research Center, York Town, N.Y. The Chapel of Concordia Senior College. Gateway Arch, St. Louis "

Eliel Saarinen

"Finnish-American architect, who strongly influenced modern architecture. Popular w/ railway station designs especially in Europe. 2nd place in the Chicago Tribune Tower PHILOSOPHY: " Beauty grows from the necessity not from repetition of formulas." WORKS: Cranbook School, Michigan Christ Church, Minneapolis Helsinki Railroad Station, Finland National Museum Finland "

Daniel Burnham

"Flatiron Building, NY "

Trompel o Eil

"Fool the eye" - are paintings adorning everything from cabinets to cupboards, fire screen to dishwashers. This creates an illusion of space. A make-believe doorway for example extends a hall. A glass cabinet or door is painted with cows and chicken and make-believe or create an outdoor scene.

hierogyphics

"For Egyptian Architecture design, due to excessive sunshine, there was no need for windows, the massive unbroken walls provided the surface for ________________."

Lao Tze

"For the Creation of Space ____________a Chinese Philosopher, said, "The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.""

Antonio Gaudi

"Form does not necessarily follow function"

Louis Sullivan

"Form follows function"

Louis Sullivan

"Form follows function".

Propylaea

"Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the architect Mnesicles is the."

Zaguan

"Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where the carriages and floats are kept."

Perret Auguste

"French architect, one of the most important pioneers of the modern French style. Advocator of reinforced concrete architecture. THEORIES: " The truth is indispensable in architecture & every architecture lie courrupts." " Any project is bad if it is more difficult or more complicated to construct the necessary." WORKS: The Temple Tower 1889, Exposition Universale in Paris The Apartment Building Rue FranklinFrench Legation, Istanbul Theatre Des Champs, Lysees - redesigning, original by Van del Velde Notre Dame Church, Paris Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva Eiffel Monument, Paris Palace of the Soviets, Moscow "

Domical roof construction

"From the 5th century to the present, the character of Byzantine architecture is the practice of using."

Amphi-Prostyle

"From the Greek temples, a temple that have porticoes of columns at the front and rear."

Kenzo tange

"Fuji TV Headquarters "

Mies van de Rohe

"German-American architect, the leading and most influential exponent of the glass and steel architecture of the 20th-century International Style. Skin and bone construction. "

Charles Rennie Macintiosh

"Glasgow School of Art "

English architecture

"Glasgow School of Art 1897 to 1909 Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Location: Glasgow, England Building type: college Construction system: bearing masonry Style: art and crafts, art nouveau "

American Structures

"Golden Gate Bridge 1933 to 1937 Architect: Joseph Strauss Location: San Francisco, California Building type: suspension bridge Construction system: steel frame, steel cables Styles: Structural Modern with some Art Deco details one of the longest bridge in the world a powerful and elegant human structure in an equally beautiful natural location overall bridge length of 9266 feet, or 2824 meters bridge main span length of 4200 feet, or 1280 meters "

Moshe Safdie

"Habitat 67, Montreal "

Buckminster Fuller

"He created the Dymaxion House, ""the first machine for living""."

Francisco Manosa

"He has actively promoted the use of native architectural forms and indigenous nationals such as bamboo and thatch, in the creation of a distinctively Filipino architecture. "

Mies van de Rohe

"He paid great attention to the detailing of the structure, which he attributed to his father's teachings about craftsmanship. "

Peter Behrens

"He was called "Masters master" where his students are architects like Gropius, Breuer and Van de Rohe "

Buckminster Fuller

"He was the architect in his time that receives his license as award at his 60's or at the age of 60 yrs. old. "

Eliel Saarinen

"Helsinki Railway Station "

Erich Mendelsohn

"His first designs were drawings of fantastic architectural visions in steel and glass as well as costume and poster design. "

Nervi, Pier Luigi

"His solutions to building problem were always direct, transmitting to the ground by the shortest path the stresses developed within the structures. "

French Architecture

"Hotel de Invalides Napoleons tomb is within the structure founded by Louis XIV for disabled soldiers late 17th century "

Adolf Loos

"House of Michealerplatz, Vienna "

176

"How many stained glass are there in the Chartres Cathedral?"

Baroque

"IS CHARACTERIZED BY INTERPRETATION OF OVAL SPACES, CURVED SURFACES, & CONSPICUOUS USE DECORATION, ACULPTURE & COLOR. ITS LAST PHASE IS CALLED "ROCOCO BOLD, OPULENT & IMPRESSIVE TYPE OF ARCH'RE. "

Frank Gehry

"In 1989 he received the prtzker prize commonly referred to as "The Noble of Architecture" the loftiest recognition. It is a lifetime achievement award granted to living architect whose body of work represents a superlative contribution to the field. "

Elysee Palace

"In France, It is the official residence of President of France, It was built in 1718 by Claude Mollet for Henry de la Tour d' Auvergne"

Parthenon

"In Greek Architecture, It is the largest building atop the Athenian Acropolis, It is a temple dedicated to Athena (The warrior of maiden) It is a Doric building, and made entirely of white pentelic marble and surrounded by freestanding column."

Epidaurus Theater

"In Greek Architecture, The __________ theater designed (c.350 BC) by Polyclitus. It is among the largest and best preserved ancient theaters in Greece. The circular construction and the pitch of the seats, where held close to 14,000 spectators, permit nearly perfect acoustics."

Ivatan's Rakuh

"In Philippine Architecture, Being Isolated and wind frequented area. The Batanes Islands, exhibit the most different of all traditional Architecture in the Phil. The house is built solidly on all sides, made of a meter thick rubble work, covered by thick thatch roofing to withstand gales which frequent the area. What is the name of this unique house?"

Torogan House

"In Philippine Architecture, It is considered the home of the Sultans. Carved on the wooden posts in the niyaga, a stylized mytical snake design can be found. It is the traditional residence of the reigning Sultan of Maranaw people and his family."

Trajans forum

"In Roman Architecture, It was built AD 112, It was designed by Apollodorous of Damascus for Emperor Trajan, it is often considered the most magnificent and architecturally most pleasing."

Colosseum

"In Roman Architecture, It was built AD 72-82 in Rome Italy, It is the largest Roman Amphitheater, A four storey, elliptical structure that seated about 50,000 spectators. The exterior façade was embellished with superimposed Doric, ionic and Corinthian columns."

Agrippa

"In Roman Architecture, The Pantheon (AD C118-28), A monument of imperial Rome, revived the use of brick and concrete in temple architecture. It is symmetry is enchanced by its hemispherical dome, Who is the architect of this historical monument? (he is the son in law of Augustus.)"

Cluniac

"In Romanesque arch're a period where an order founded by St. Bruno in 1806 is notably severe and adorned "

Apotheca

"In ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of any kind, but especially for storing wine."

Apse

"In early Christian churches, the bishop took the central place at the end of the church called ___."

Francisco Manosa

"In his practice he explores the use of indigenous materials infused with current technological trends to bring a new dimension in designs. "

Bema

"In some churches, there is a part which is raised as part of the sanctuary which later developed into the transept, this is the ___."

Dapogan

"In the kitchen of the bahay kubo, the table on top of which is the river stone, shoe-shaped stove or kalan is known as ___."

Amenemhat I

"In the middle kingdom, in Egyptian architecture, who consolidate the administrative system, made a survey of the country, set boundaries to the provinces, and other helpful works."

Monument

"Is a statue, building, or other edifice created to commemorate a person or important event. They are frequently used to improve the appearance of a city or location."

Finial

"Is an architectural device, typically carved in stone and employed to decoratively emphasize the apex of a gable, or any of various distinctive ornaments at the top, end, or corner of a building or structure."

Crepidoma

"Is an architectural term related to ancient Greek buildings, is the platform of, usually, three levels upon which the superstructure of the building is erected. The levels typically decrease in size incrementally, forming a series of steps along all or some sides of the building."

Archivolt

"Is an ornamental molding or band following the curve of the underside of an arch, It is composed of bands of ornamental moldings (or other architectural elements) surrounding an arched opening,"

Alexandre Gustav Eiffel

"Is the most famous for the eye catching tower he constructed in Paris for the exposition universally of 1889 work of Eiffel tower. "

Portugal

"Is well endowed with medieval military achre and grand castles are particularly numerous in castle "

Order

"It consists of the upright column or support including the capital, base, if any, and the horizontal entablature or part supported. "

Kankanay

"It is a traditional house that was called binangiyan. It was a single room dwelling elevated at 1.50 meters from the ground; the floor were made of hard wood like narra which rested on 3 floor joist which in turn were supported by transverse girders."

Queen Anne style

"It is the eclectic style of domestic architecture of the 1870's and the 1880's in England and the USA and actually based on country house and cottage Elizabeth architecture which was characterized by a blending of Tudor Gothic, English Renaissance and colonial elements in the USA:"

Decorated style

"It is the third phase of English-Gothic Architecture where elaborated ornamental vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques."

Engr's & Archt. Law Act 2986

"It was the first law passed by the national assembly in 1921 where the maestros de obra or the master builders are required to register as architects? "

Marcel Brever

"Italian architect Member of Bauhaus Popularized the Tubular steel cantilever chair"

SOM

"JIN MAO TOWER Shanghai - Number of floors: 88 Height: 420.60 meters design most refer to the number 8, an auspicious number for Chinese "

Frank Gehry

"Jay Pritzker Pavilion, USA "

Daniel Libeskind

"Jewish Museum, Berlin "

Richard Meier

"Jubilee Church, Rome "

French Architecture

"La Madeleine Architect: Napoleon I church of Ste. Marie Madeleine constructed as a church in 1842 surrounded by 52 Corinthian columns "

Unite d Habitation

"Le Corbusier planned a high density building that was a "super building" that contained 337 dwellings in only acres of land. What is the structure that supposed to be located in Marseilles? "

Robert Venturi

"Less is a bore"

Ludwig Mies Van De Rohe

"Less is more"

Paul Rudolph

"Lippo Building , Hong Kong "

Richard Rogers

"Lloyds Building, London "

Norman Foster

"London City Hall "

Felix Candela

"Los Manantiales, Mexico "

Palladianism

"MODE OF BLDG FOLLOWING THE STRICT ROMAN FORMS, A SET FORTH IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE ITALIAN REN. ARCH'T.ANDREA PALLADIO (1508-1580). STYLE BASED ON A CLOSED STUDY OF ANTIQUITY. "

Opus Tesselatum

"Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes."

Peter Eissenman

"Max Reinhardt House, Germany "

Felix Outerino Candela

"Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced thin shell construction."

Kenzo Tange

"Modern architecture need not be western".

Pylon

"Monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple consisting with slanting walls flanking the entrance portal "

Futurism

"Movement in 20th Century, art that represented the revolutionary effort of young Italian Concrete, steel and glass Advocators: Jim Slade and Robert Colley. an architects. The architecture of reinforced concrete iron and glass. Calculation of audacity and simplicity Capable of expressing "tangible miracles." Inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. "

Kahn, Louis

"Much of his works has been described as post modern, since he rejected the excessive abstractionism of architects such as Le Corbusier and strove instead to incorporate the valid elements of older style. "

Frei Otto

"Munich Olympic Stadium "

American Structures

"National Gallery of Art Architect: John Russel Pope houses one of the finest collections of painting, sculptures, and graphic arts in the world "

Constructivism

"Non-representational style of art w/c uses modern industrial materials: plastic & glass. Ideal abstract art movement arose in Europe & Russia (1913-1920) Based on the idea: Art is an absolute entity, whose origin lie in the mind & whose forms are unrelated to objects of visible world. Concept of art: includes painting & sculpture. "

Maurice de Sully

"Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris France - OLDEST CATHEDRAL IN FRANCE-EARLY GOTHIC "

French Architecture

"Notre Dame de Paris 1163 to 1250 Architect: Maurice de Sully Location: Paris, France Building Type: church, cathedral Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone Style: Early Gothic one of the most celebrated Gothic cathedrals in France twin towers marking the entrance probably the most famous image in French Gothic art "

Auguste Perret

"Notre Dame du Raincy, France "

Ambo

"On either side of the choir, pulpits for the reading of the epistle and the gospel are"

Richard Meier

"One of his stylish choice which are circles and squares were used in his design solutions. "

Nea Moni

"One of the few churches of its type to have survived having a square nave and without cross-arms, roofed by a dome which spans to the outer walls of the building."

Louis Henry Sullivan

"One of the pioneers of the modern movement in American architecture. Work auditorium building, U.S. "

cherubin

"One of the winged heavenly beings that support the throne of god or act as guardian spirits, or chubby, rosy- faced child with wings. "

Buckminster Fuller

"One of the world's 1st futurist and global thinkers. His 1927 decision to work always and only for all humanity led him to address the largest global problems of poverty,disease and homelessness. "

Neo-expressionism

"Out view in w/c the major activities or environmental factor was employed in the structure in a non-intellectual manner. CHARACTERISTICS: Continuity of forms rather than proportionality and geometric terms/means. Tendency to avoid rectangular forms. Tends to individual sensibility. "

Cesar Pelli

"PETRONAS TWIN TOWER KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Number of floors: 88 Height: 452 meters "

French Architecture

"Palais Royal commissioned by Cardinal Richeliev original name is Palais Cardinal 17th century Daniel Buren: stripped columns "

French Architecture

"Paris Opera House 1857 to 1874 Architect: Charles Garnier Location: Paris, France Building type: theater, opera house Construction system: masonry, cut stone Style: Neo-Baroque polychrome façade, opulent staircase commission by competition masterpiece of 19th century architecture one of the largest and most opulent theaters in the world false ceiling painted by Marc Chagall "

Cornice, frieze, architrave

"Parts of an entablature, in order of top to bottom. i. Cornice ii. Frieze iii.Architrave"

Cesar Pelli

"Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur "

French Architecture

"Pompidou Centre 1972 to 1976 Architect: Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano Location: Paris, France Building Type: modern art museum Construction system: high-tech steel and glass Style: High-tech modern a cost of $100,000,000, with an average attendance of approximately seven million people a year massive structural expressionist cast exoskeleton, ""exterior"" escalators enclosed in transparent tube "

Michael graves

"Portland Building, Oregon "

English architecture

"Queen's House 1616 to 1635 Architect: Inigo Jones - the greatest of English Classical architect Location: Greenwich, England Building type: large house Construction system: bearing masonry Style: Palladian, Late English Renaissance was built by Jones for Anne of Denmark, wife of James I "

Robert de Cotte

"ROYAL CHAPEL, THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES (1707-1710) FRANCE "

John Wood

"ROYAL CRESCENT, BATH ENGLAND (1767-1775) "

Tomas Mapua

"Received the "Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinanagan "award for the city of manila, who is the architect? "

Philip Webb

"Red House, England "

shwe dagon pagoda

"Reflects Burma's cultural connections with China and India, built over older foundations (16th-17th century) at Rangoon. "

French Architecture

"Rheims Cathedral one of the greatest monument of Gothic art and architecture construction commerced by Jean d'Orbais and was completed by Robert de Coucy a work of remarkable unity and harmony "

Cossutius

"Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus, Olympius."

Circus

"Roman building which is like the hippodrome of the Greek."

Marble

"Romanesque architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the use of what material for facing walls."

ambrogio

"Roughly carved of men and beasts used as support columns of projecting porches and of bishops throne. "

Bruce Graham / SOM

"SEARS TOWER, CHICAGO (1947-1976) 110 STOREY Number of floors: 110 Height: 443 meters still the tallest building if the antennas are included has the highest occupied floors "

"SIVERSMITH-LIKE"; THE RICHLY DECORATIVE STYLE OF THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE. "

"SIVERSMITH-LIKE"; THE RICHLY DECORATIVE STYLE OF THE SPANISH RENAISSANCE. "

Robert Mailaart

"Saginatobel Bridge "

Antonio Gaudi

"Sagrada de Familia "

American Structures

"Saint Patrick's Cathedral Architect: James Renwick Location: New York shaped like a Latin cross the largest Roman Catholic Cathedral in the United States designed in a Gothic Revival materials at English and French Gothic Style "

English architecture

"Saint Paul's Cathedral 1675 to 1710 Architect: Sir Christopher Wren Location: London, England Building type: church Construction system: masonry, brick, timber and cut stone Style: Late renaissance to Baroque the dome peaks at 366 feet above pavement a masterpiece of Baroque architecture largest cathedral in England "

English architecture

"Salisbury Cathedral 1220 to 1258 Location: Salisbury, England Building type: Cathedral (church, temple) Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone Style: English Gothic Cathedral of Saint Mary an outstanding example of the Early English architectural style tallest in England 404ft (123m) use of Purbeck marble to create a strongly coloured "

Louis Khan

"Salk Institute, California "

Alvar Aalto

"Sanatorio di Paimo, Finland "

Charles Mackintosh

"Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the arts and crafts movement in Great Britain. "

Mies van de Rohe

"Seagram Building "

Egyptian Architects

"Senusurets- built the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis Amenemhat I- founded the great temple at Karnak Thothmes I- began the additions to the temple of Amnon Karnak Amenophis III- built the famous Colossi of Memnon Rameses I- began the hypostyle hall at Karnak Seti I- built the temple at Abu- Simber Ptolemy II- built the pharos of Light House Ptolemy III- founded the Great Seradeum at Alexandria "

English architecture

"Somerset House 1776 to 1786 Architect: William Chambers Location: London, England Building type: government offices and art school Construction system: cut stone masonry Style: Neoclassical Home of Royal Academy of the Arts. Corinthian orders above arched courtyard apertures, rusticated base "

French Architecture

"Sorbonne most famous building at the University of Paris "

Utilitarianism

"Sought for solutions for alternative cheap forms of construction in timber, brick & metal. Initiated by British (pre-fab. Architecture) A design of something Auspicious. Other definitions: Refers to low-cost housing Pre-Fabricated unit "

Antonio Gaudi

"Spanish architects, one of the most creative practitioners of his art in modern times.His style is often described as a blend of neo-gothic and art nouveau, but is also has surrealist and cubist elements. "

Acroterion

"Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually, the ornament itself."

Jorn Utzon

"Sydney Opera House "

Picturesque Architecture

"TERM IN A SPECIALIZED SENSE TO DESCRIBE ONE OF THE ATTITUDES OF TASTE TOWARDDS ARCH'RE & LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN THE LATE 18th & EARLY 19th CENT. BLDG'S & LANDSCAPE WERE TO HAVE THE CONTROLLED INFORMALITY OF A PICTURE. "

Antiquarian

"THE PHASE IN WESTERN EUROPIAN RENASSAINCE ARCH'RE 1750-1830, WHEN RENED INSPIRATION WAS SOUGHT FROM ANCIENT GREEK & ROMAN ARCH'RE ( NEO CLASSICAL) "

Gregorian Architecture

"THE PREVAILING STYLE OF THE 18th CENT. IN GREAT BRITAIN & THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES, SO NAMED AFTER GEORGE I, II, III, BUT NOT INCLUDE GEORGE IV. DERIVED FROM CLASSICAL, RENAISSANCE, & BAROQUE FORMS. "

Elizabethan Architecture

"THE TRANSITIONAL STYLE BETWEEN GOTHIC & RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND, NAMED AFTER ELIZABETH I; MAINLY COUNTRY HOUSES, CHARATERIZED BY LARGED MILLIONED WINDOWS & STRAPWORK ORNAMENTATION "

"TRANSITIONAL STYLE IN ARCH'RE & THE ARTS IN THE LATE 16th. CENT, CHARATERIZED IN ARCH'RE BY UNCOVENTIONAL USE OF CLASSICAL ELEMENTS. "

"TRANSITIONAL STYLE IN ARCH'RE & THE ARTS IN THE LATE 16th. CENT, CHARATERIZED IN ARCH'RE BY UNCOVENTIONAL USE OF CLASSICAL ELEMENTS. "

Egyptian Architecture

"TS MOST OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS ARE ITS MASSIVE FUNERARY MONUMENTS & TEMPLES BUILT OF STONE FOR PERMANENCE, FEATURING ONLY POST-AND-LINTEL CONSTRUCTION & CORBEL VAULTS W/ OUT ARCHES & VAULTING "

Eero Saarinen

"TWA Terminal "

Frank Loyd Wright

"Taliesin West, Arizona "

Dipteral

"Temples in Greece that have a double line of columns surrounding the naos."

G.F.& Partners

"The Golden Empire Tower-( 1322 Roxas Boulevard) is the tallest building along the boulevard and one of the highest residential condominium in the world. The one with the golden glass facing Manila Bay and United States Embassy compound in Manila. Who is the Filipino Architect of this famous residential condominium?"

Great Temple of Ammon, Karnak

"The Grandest Temple of all Egyptian temples, it was not built by upon one complete plan but owes its size, disposition and magnificence to the work of many Kings. Built from the 12th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic period."

Bouleuterion

"The Greek council house which is covered meeting place for the democratically-elected council is called:"

French Architecture

"The Louvre 1546 to 1878 Architect: Pierre Lescot Location: Paris, France Building type: palace, art museum Construction system: cut stone bearing masonry Style: French Renaissance also designed by Catherine de Medici, J.A. du Cerceau II, Claude Perrault, etc. I.M. Pei: design the glass pyramid, which serves as the main public entrance "

Robert Mills

"The Washington D.C. monument. The tapering shaft contained in a Greek style temple, the obelisk is the only remnant of the original blueprint that remains. It was designed in the year 1812 by the American Architect, What is the name of this Architect?"

Manila Metropolitan Theatre

"The ___________________ is an art deco building designed by the Filipino Architect Juan M. de Guzman Arellano, and built in 1935. During the liberation of Manila by the Americans in 1945, the theatre was totally destroyed. After reconstruction by the Americans it gradually fell into disuse in the 1960's. In the following decade it was meticulously restored but again fell into decay. Recently a bus station has been constructed at the back of the theatre. The City of Manila is planning a renovation of this once magnificent building. "

presbytery

"The actual sanctuary of a church beyond the choir and occupied only by the officiating clergy. "

Walter Gropius

"The architect who claimed that: "The ultimate goal of the new architecture was the composite but inseparable work of an art, in which the old diving line between monumental and decorative elements will have disappeared forever.""

Walter Gropius

"The architect who claimed that: "The ultimate goal of the new architecture was the composite but inseparable work of an art, in which the old diving line between monumental and decorative elements will have disappeared forever." "

Le Corbusier

"The architect who said that the exterior of the building is the result of the interior"

Le Corbusier

"The architect who said that the exterior of the building is the result of the interior. "

Rameses I

"The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty."

Worms Cathedral

"The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at both east and west ends."

Parthenon

"The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect building ever erected is the."

Prytaneion

"The building that serve as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city and as a palace where distinguished visitors and citizens might be entertained."

skylight

"The central rounded of a pattern or ornament, an oculus, one at the summit of a dome. "

Vespasian / Domitian

"The colosseum in Rome also known as the ""flavian amphitheater"" was commenced by whom and completed by whom?"

Iñigo Jones

"The dominating personality who became an ardent disciple of the Italian renaissance style."

Bilik

"The emergency hideout found directly behind the headboard of the Sultan's bed."

Andrea Palladio

"The father of modern picture books of Architecture "

Latin Cross

"The final plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Carlo Maderna."

Treasury of Atreus

"The finest of Greek Tombs, also known as the 'tomb of Agamemnon'."

Alexander

"The first Frankish king who became roman emperor, was crowned in 800 at Rome by the pope, and ruled over the franks, which included central Germany and northern France "

Greek Cross

"The first plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Bramante."

Ten books of Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius

"The man of learning... can fearlessly look down upon the troublesome accidents of fortune. But he who thinks himself entrenched in defense not of learning but of luck, moves one slippery path, struggling though life unsteadily and insecurely.""

Trajan's Column

"The memorial column built in the form of tall Doric order and made entirely f marble is;"

Marble

"The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her domains had ample supply of was."

Epidauros

"The most beautiful and best preserved of the Greek theaters."

Pantheon

"The most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient buildings in Rome."

Hagia Sophia

"The most famous structure of Byzantine architecture and notable of its large dome."

Church bldgs.

"The most important of the distinctive characteristics of mature Spanish Romanesque architecture "

Tracery

"The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window."

antiquarian

"The phase in western European renaissance archre 1750-1830, when renewed inspiration was sought from ancient Greek and roman architecture "

Piano Noble

"The principal floor of an Italian palace, raised one floor above ground level and containing the principal social apartments. "

Nave

"The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir orchancel and usually flanked by aisles."

Temenos

"The sacred enclosure fond in the highest part of a Greek city is called:"

Temenos

"The sacred enclosure fond in the highest part of a Greek city is called: "

expressionism

"The selection of elements from diverse styles for architectural decorative designs,particularly during the 2nd half of the 19th century in Europe and USA. "

Pteroma

"The space between the colonnade and the naos wall in Greek temple."

Cancelli

"The space for the clergy and choir is separated by a low screen wall from the body of the church called ___."

Doric

"The style of the order with massive and tapering columns resting on a base of 3 steps."

Lamin

"The tower atop the torogan where the princess and her ladies in waiting hide during occasions."

merlons

"The upstanding part of an embattled parapet, between two crenels/ embrasure openings. "

Panay Cathedral in Capiz

"This church, 1st built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Murguia, has an unusually large bell which was made from approximately 70 sacks of coins donated by the towns people."

Renzo Piano

"Tjibao Cultural Center, New Caledonia "

Fumihiko Maki

"Tokyo, Japan "

Tomb of Agamemnon

"Tomb of Atreus, a noted example of the tholos type of tomb is also known as:"

Jean Nouvel

"Torre Agbar "

Pier Luigi Nervi

"Turin Exhibition Hall "

Helm Roof

"Type of roof in which 4 faces rest diagonally between the gables and converge at the top "

Benjamin Latrobe

"US Capitol, Washington DC "

Le corbusuier

"Unite d' Habitacion, France "

American Structures

"Washington Monument Architect: Robert Mills Location: Washington, D.C. Style: Neo-Egyptian the obelisk is the only remnant of the original blue print that remains with George Marsh, competition 1836. standard Egyptian proportion of 10:1 height to base "

English architecture

"Westminster Palace 1836 to 1868 Architect: Sir Charles Barry Location: London Building type: seat of government, government center Construction system: cut stone bearing masonry Style: English Gothic Revival Big Ben: the clock tower best known is a great symbol of London originally seat of kings as a royal residence "

Art Noveau

"What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style?"

Reims Cathedral

"What is the name of the Cathedral in France that was designed by Jean d' Orbais.("

Composite

"Which of the order was added by the Romans to the orders used by the Greeks."

Thothmes I

"Who began the building of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak?"

Arch and vault

"With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, the Romans achieved huge interiors with the __________."

Roman

"cubicula" or bedroom is from what architecture.

Eisodos

"is a term used for Ancient Greek Plays in order to describe any of two passageways leading into the orchestra, between theatron and skenê (also known as the parodos)."

Partenon

"largest - geatest example of greek architecture - archt. Ictinus - master sculptor- Callicrates - Doric temple - naos- made of gold and ivory - holds the statue of Athena "

The Arts & Crafts Movement

"movement for aesthetic and moral crusade - escape FROM THE Industrial World - John Ruskin(1819-1900) and William Morris(1834-1896) were THE key figures"

Le corbusuier

"professional name of Charles Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), Swiss-French architect, painter, and writer, who had a major effect on the development of modern architecture. PHILOSOPHY: " The house is a machine to live in." WORKS: Palace of the League of Nations, Geneva (1927-1928) The Swiss Building at the Cité Universitaire, Paris (1931-1932); Unité d'Habitation (1946-1952) an apartment house in Marseille, France; Notre Dame du Haut (1950-1955) a pilgrimage church in Ronchamp, France High Court Buildings (1952-1956) Chandìgarh, India "

Real Fuerza de Santiago (Fort Santiago)

"shrine of freedom", designed by Father Antonio Cedeno, with Diego Jordan as engineer

Doge's Hall

(BRITISH) The hall built or used by medieval association as of merchants and tradesmen, organized to maintain standards that constituted a governing body. (Doge = Italian renaissance chief magistrate)

Boss

(Lump or knob) or projecting ornament at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat.

Fretwork

(grating: metal grille) an ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an assembly of straight lines intersecting at right angles, and of various patterns.

The Great Temple of Arnak

(greatest example of Egyptian temple)

Pavillion

(little house for pleasure & recreation). A prominent structure, generally distinctive in character.

Ambulatory

(to walk) the cloister (covered walkway around a courtyard) or covered passage around the east end of the church, behind the altar.

The Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali,

, first built in the 13th century and reconstructed in 1906-1909, is the largest clay building in the world.

Wardrobe

- A room for storage of garments

Tracery

- The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a gothic window.

Mesopotamian Architecture

1. Abundance of clay-provided bricks

Greek Buildings

1. Acropolis,

Early Christian Structures

1. Basilican Churches,

Egyptian Architecture

1. Battered or sloping outside walls

Pre Historic Period - Structures

1. Beehives,

Islamic Architecture

1. Bulbous or onion dome

Greek Architecture

1. Columnar & trabeated (have horizontal beams rather than archs)

Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet

1. Cupola Roofs (dome shaped roof or dome on roof), spanning with arched squinches, the square chamber angles, lantern roof and coffered dome, an elaborate system of hexagon, each containing the statue of Buddha

Continental Europe Buildings

1. Eiffel tower, [???]

Modern International

1. Free-standing glass sheath suspended on a framework across the face of the building or curtain wall.

India / pakistan

1. Hindu worship is an individual act

Japan

1. Light and delicate timber construction is refined by a minute carving & decoration

American Architecture

1. Neo-classic & Greek revival was followed

Gothic Buildings

1. Notre Dame Cathedral,

Byzantine Architecture

1. Novel development of the Dome to cover polygonal and square plans of churches

Rennaissance Buildings

1. Palazzo Ricardi @ Florence,

Britain Architecture

1. Picturesque values

Gothic Architecture

1. Pointed arch

Continental Europe

1. Repetition of standard bays, both plan & elevation, an affinity (similarity) with bay system, programmatically adopted with the introduction of iron construction

Romanesque Architecture

1. Ribbed & panel, cross vaults;

Sri Lanka

1. Rock Temples, with square or octagonal pillars

China

1. Roof ridges are laden with elaborate ornamental cresting and the up-tilted angles are adorned with fantastic dragons and grotesque ornament.(distorted bizarre)

Renaissance Architecture

1. Rusticated masonry, (rough masonry)

Modern International

1. Salginatobel Bridge,

Egyptian Buildings

1. Sphinx,

Romanesque Buildings

1. St, Zeno,

Byzantine Structures

1. St. Sophia, Constantinople

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

1. Stepped Temple Pyramid, terraced on a hill

Pre Columbian Bldgs (Maya, Aztec, Peru, Mexico)

1. Temple Pyramid of the Sun,

Pre columbian Architecure

1. Temple pyramids are approached by a single steep flight of steps.

Prehistoric Period

1. Temporary shelter from perishable materials

Roman Architecture

1. The arch & the vault was developed

Islamic Buildings

1. The great mosques,

Philippines

1. Use of indigenous (natural) materials for houses like bamboo, palm leaves, sturdy wooden posts, carved wooden sidings, cogon grass roof.

Britain Buildings

1. Westminster New Palace (House of Parliament), London

Early christian Architecture

1. Widely Spaced Columns carrying semi-circular arches

Ancient near East (mesopotamia) Buildings

1. Ziggurat of Ur,

Art Deco

1930s modernist's style of art inspired by mechanical forms and chiefly distinguished by geometrical shapes, bold color schemes and symmetrical designs, suitable for mass production

Philip Johnson

1979 Pritzker Awardee

Sri Lanka

2. A circular relic house (wata-dage) built in stone & brick is an outstanding architectural creation.

Modern International

2. Art Noveau and Bauhaus was developed

American Architecture

2. Baloon frame was introduced

Early Christian Structures

2. Baptisteries

Early christian Architecture

2. Basilican Churches have 3 to 5 aisles, covered by a simple timber roof

India / pakistan

2. Buddhist religious buildings or shrines took the form of STUPAS (Buddhist shrine or pagoda), and are designed for congregational use.

Prehistoric Period

2. Caves

Pre Columbian Bldgs (Maya, Aztec, Peru, Mexico)

2. Citadel Teotihuacan,

Egyptian Architecture

2. Columns & Capitals from vegetable origins

Britain Buildings

2. Crystal Palace, London [???]

Islamic Buildings

2. Damascus & Cordoba,

Japan

2. Dominant roofs characterized by their exquisite (beautiful/superb) curvature, supported by a succession of brackets

Modern International

2. Einstein Tower, Eirch Mendelsohn

Romanesque Buildings

2. Maggiore Monastery,

Islamic Architecture

2. Minarets

Continental Europe Buildings

2. New louvre,

Gothic Buildings

2. Paris Canterbury Cathedral,

Renaissance Architecture

2. Quoins, Balusters

Britain Architecture

2. Reflected in the predilection (liking) for highly textured, colorful materials, asymmetry & informality.

Mesopotamian Architecture

2. Roofs flat outside

China

2. Roofs one on top of the other using S-shape enameled tiles.

Philippines

2. Spanish-style high-pitched roofs,

Byzantine Structures

2. St. Mark, Venice

Rennaissance Buildings

2. St. Peter's PIAZZA,

Pre columbian Architecure

2. Stone [finely dressed, carved, or laid as roughly dressed rubble] was employed for all important buildings

Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet

2. The "SIKHARA" & "PAGODA" temples survive.

Byzantine Architecture

2. Tomb & baptisteries by means of "pendentives"

Roman Architecture

2. Two orders of architecture added [Tuscan & Composite]

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

2. Using stone without mortar fitted perfectly and numerous colossal towers

Greek Architecture

2. Wooden roofs were untrussed

Gothic Architecture

2. buttress, flying buttress

Pre Historic Period - Structures

2. huts,

Ancient near East (mesopotamia) Buildings

2. persepolis,

Romanesque Architecture

2. plaster strips, arcades, rose windows,

Byzantine Architecture

3. 'Fresco" decoration using marble & mosaic

Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet

3. A monumental pillar generally supporting a metal superstructure adorned with mystic symbols, groups of divinities and portraits statuary of royalties.

Greek Buildings

3. Agora,

Sri Lanka

3. Architecture of wood, with high pitched roofs, with wide eaves, slightly curved, finished with small flat shingles and terra cotta tiles.

Mesopotamian Architecture

3. Architecture was arcuated winged deity and winged human headed lion used as décor

Roman Buildings

3. Basilicas

American Structures

3. Boston Empire State Building,

Philippines

3. Capiz shell windows, barandillas, balconies,

Rennaissance Buildings

3. Cathedral Vatican,

Greek Architecture

3. Ceilings sometimes omitted

Modern International

3. Chapel of Notre Dame, Le Corbusier

3. Concrete is now used [composition of lime, sand, pozzolana & broken bricks or small stones.

3. Concrete is now used [composition of lime, sand, pozzolana & broken bricks or small stones.

Modern International

3. Enormous Spans unobstructed were at length achieved with concrete.

Gothic Buildings

3. King's College,

Islamic Buildings

3. Kiosk @ Istanbul

Romanesque Buildings

3. Leaning Tower,

Early christian Architecture

3. Mosaic decoration added internally

India / pakistan

3. Mouldings have BULBOUS character

Egyptian Buildings

3. Obelisks,

Egyptian Architecture

3. Papyrus Buds, Lotus Flower walls of mud brick, thick & 9M high

Continental Europe Buildings

3. Paris Opera House,

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

3. Religious buildings overlaid with ornamentation of Chinese characters, surfaces often finished with porcelain tile

Prehistoric Period

3. Rocks on top of each other

China

3. Roof framing in "rectangle" and not triangle.

Romanesque Architecture

3. Sober (serious/ not fanciful)& dignified style

Pre Columbian Bldgs (Maya, Aztec, Peru, Mexico)

3. Temple of the Giant Jaguar,

American Architecture

3. The skyscraper was contributed related to metal frame construction

Britain Buildings

3. University Museum, Oxford

Japan

3. Upper part of the roof is terminated by a gable placed vertically above the end walls

Pre Historic Period - Structures

3. caves,

Renaissance Architecture

3. domes or raised drums

Gothic Architecture

3. gargoyles, decorated vaulting

Ancient near East (mesopotamia) Buildings

3. hall of the hundred columns

Britain Architecture

3. palazzo style was a triumph of national ecclesiasticism

Islamic Architecture

3. stalactite moulding

Gothic Buildings

4. Canterbury Town Halls,

Romanesque Buildings

4. Cathedral & Baptistery of Pisa,

Philippines

4. Coconut shell & wood design.

American Structures

4. English Country Houses

Romanesque Architecture

4. Formal massing depends on the grouping of towers and the projection of transepts & choir.

Pre Columbian Bldgs (Maya, Aztec, Peru, Mexico)

4. Great Plaza of Tenochtitlan Machu Picchu, Peru

Prehistoric Period

4. Hard-packed snow blocks

Mesopotamian Architecture

4. Houses of one room, entered by a single door & without windows

Modern International

4. Johnson Wax Building, Frank Lloyd Wright

Egyptian Buildings

4. Mastaba Tombs,

Britain Architecture

4. New functions & techniques produced new forms

Greek Buildings

4. ODEION theatre,

Rennaissance Buildings

4. Palais du louvre,

Continental Europe Buildings

4. Paris & cologne.

Britain Buildings

4. Red House, Kent

Japan

4. Rooms are regulated by a "KEN" Tatami mats.

Modern International

4. Steel is used in space-frame

Islamic Buildings

4. Taj mahal mausoleum @ Agra

India / pakistan

4. The TORUS moulding is used

American Architecture

4. The non-load-bearing curtain wall & the elevator

Roman Buildings

4. Thermae,

Egyptian Architecture

4. Unbroken massive walls adorned with hieroglyphics

China

4. Use of bright colors

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

4. Walls are white stucco, (wall plaster)

Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet

4. Windows have intricate lattice screens and roof have red curved tiles, metal gutters and projecting cornice and fancifully decorated with carving, embossing, tinkling bells and hanging lamps.

Sri Lanka

4. Windows with lacquered wood bars, carved timber doorways, ornamental metalwork door furniture, painted walls.

Islamic Architecture

4. cresting: decorative roof ridge: an ornamental ridge on a roof

Greek Architecture

4. optical illusions were corrected, in Greek Temples

Renaissance Architecture

4. pediments one within the other

Gothic Architecture

4. rose & lancet windows ploughshare twist

Early christian Architecture

4. separate buildings used for baptism or baptisteries

Pre Historic Period - Structures

4. tents,

Roman Buildings

5. Amphitheatres,

American Structures

5. Bungalows

Romanesque Buildings

5. Castles, fortifications,

Britain Buildings

5. Cathedral @ Guildford

China

5. Column brackets are decorated with birds, flowers and dragons.

Greek Architecture

5. Doric, Ionic, Corinthian [orders of columns]

Modern International

5. Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright

Egyptian Buildings

5. Great Temple,

Japan

5. Love of nature: using stone, lantern & bonsai.

Philippines

5. Much use of galvanized iron sheet for roofing

Rennaissance Buildings

5. Paris Chateu Maisons,

Gothic Buildings

5. Skippers house @ Ghent

Pre Historic Period - Structures

5. Stonehenge, England

Britain Architecture

5. Taller buildings were designed due to concrete & cast iron frames.

Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet

5. The monastery is fortress-like sited on hill tops.

Islamic Buildings

5. Tomb of Humayun, Delhi

India / pakistan

5. Various BAS reliefs depicting scenes of daily life and story of Buddha

Prehistoric Period

5. animal skins

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

5. multi-leveled overlapping timber roofs

Islamic Architecture

5. painted arch

Renaissance Architecture

5. rococo

Greek Buildings

5. stoa, - ancient covered walkway, usually with a wall on one side and a row of columns at the other

Gothic Architecture

5. variety of open roofs (trussed, tie-beam, collar)

Modern International

6. Dulles International Airport, Eero saarinen

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

6. Gables and bargeboard decorated with Hindu iconography.

Greek Buildings

6. Mausoleum Sarcophagus,

Britain Architecture

6. New materials were used due to the effect of canals

Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet

6. Pillars and beams are painted "yellow or red" and "painted silks" hang from the roof.

Rennaissance Buildings

6. St Paul's Cathedral, London,

India / pakistan

6. The female form in its voluptuous (sensual) form is often used

Renaissance Architecture

6. baroque style

Romanesque Buildings

6. chateus, Manor houses

Pre Historic Period - Structures

6. igloos

Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia

7. Doors and window shutters are of carved wood, lacquered in black and gold.

Modern International

7. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd wright

Rennaissance Buildings

7. Guild Houses @ Brussels

Britain Architecture

7. Railroad systems, central heating & elevator or lift

Egyptian Buildings

7. Temple of Khons,

Roman Buildings

7. Triumphal arch,

Renaissance Architecture

7. mansard roof

Greek Buildings

7. open hillside theatres

Modern International

8. Sydney opera House, Jorn Utzon

Roman Buildings

8. gateways,

Renaissance Architecture

8. salon

Modern International

9. Geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller

Roman Buildings

9. aqueducts

Cavaea

??? on natural rocks in a Greek theater is called

Console

A "BRACKET": is a projecting member to support a weight generally formed with scrolls or volute when carrying the upper member of the cornice

Pai Lou

A Chinese ceremonial gateway erected in memory of an eminent person

Shang

A Chinese dynasty that marked the introduction of writing, and a mastery of bronze casting

Caesar Homer Concio

A Filipino architect whose philosophy is 'the structure must be well oriented'.

Pinacotheca

A Greek building that contains painted pictures.

Clysydra

A Greek water clock or instrument for measuring the discharge of water through a small opening.

Masjid

A Muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for Prostration

Masjid

A Muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for prostration.

hogan

A Navaho Indian dwelling constructed usually of earth and logs and covered with mad and sod.

Yang-shao

A Neolithic culture in China centered around the fertile plains of the Yellow RIver characterized by pit dwellings and fine pottery painted in geometric designs.

Catal Huyuk

A Neolithic settlement in Anatolia. One of the world's earliest cities. It had mud-brick fortifications and houses, frescoed shrines, a fully developed agriculture.

Locus

A Roman fountain designed with sprouting jets

Basilica

A Roman structure used as hall of justice and commercial exchanges.

Steve church

A Scandinavian wooden church with vertical planks forming the walls

Patio

A Spanish arcaded or colonnaded yard; a paved area outside a house: a paved area adjoining a house, used for outdoor dining, growing plants in containers, and recreation. A roofless courtyard: a roofless inner courtyard typical of a Spanish-style house

Cantharus

A basin for ritual cleansing with water in the atrium of an early Christian basilica.

Oriel Window

A bay window especially cantilevered or corbelled out from the face of the wall by means of projecting stones.

Corbel

A block of stone, often elaborately carved or moulded, projected from a wall, supporting the beams of a roof, floor or vault.

Monastery

A building complex of a certain English order or a self-contained community used by monks

Gymnasium

A building in Greek and Roman for exercises or physical activities.

Nymphaeum

A building in classic architecture decorated with flowers and plants with water for the purpose of relaxation.

House

A building in which people live

baptisteries

A building or a part of a church in which baptism is administered

Hermes

A bust (sculpture of head & shoulders) on a square pedestal instead of a human body, used in classic times to mark boundaries on highways, and used decoratively in Renaissance times.

Baldachino

A canopy supported by columns generally placed over an altar or tomb.

Baldachino

A canopy supported by columns generally placed over an altar or tomb. Also known as "CIBORIUM".

Chateau

A castle in a French-speaking country or a stately residence. A French castle: a castle or large house in France, often one that has a vineyard attached and gives its name to wine produced there

Aokum

A caulking material made from old hemp rope fibers that have been treated with tar.

Cyrtostyle

A circular projecting portico

trullo

A circular stone shelter of the Apulia region of southern Italy, roofed with conical constructions of corbeled dry masonry, usually whitewashed and painted with figures or symbols.

yurt

A circular, tentlike dwelling of the mongol nomads of central Asia, consisting of a cylindrical wall of poles in a lattice arrangement with a conical roof of poles, both covered by felt or animal skins.

Kenzo Tange

A city is subjected to growth, delay and rebuilt"

fortification

A civil settlement under the protection of a castle.

Heraldic

A coat of arms; connected with heraldry or heralds: belonging or relating to heraldry or heralds

pueblo

A communal dwelling and defensive structure of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern US, built of adobe or stone, typically many-stories and terraced, with entry through the flat roofs of the chambers by ladder.

longhouse

A communal dwelling characteristic of many early cultures, esp. that of the Iroquois and various other North American India peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 30.5 m in length.

Gallery

A communicating passage or wide corridor for pictures and statues. An upper storey for seats in a church

Masu-gumi

A compound bracket or capital in Japanese architecture.

Cavetto

A concave molding approximately quarter round.

Lantern

A construction such as a tower, at the crossing of a church rising above the neighboring roofs and glazed at the sides

Verandah

A covered porch (porch-roofed exterior of a room) or balcony (balcony- a platform projecting from an interior or exterior wall of a building) extending along the outside of a building, planned for summer leisure.

Console

A decorative bracket usually taking the form of a cyma reversa strap.

Tabernacle

A decorative niche often topped with a canopy and housing a statue or an icon.

Tabernacle

A decorative niche often topped with a canopy and housing a statue.

Chamfer

A diagonal cutting of an arris formed by two surfaces at an angle

Ogee

A double curve, resembling the letter "S", formed by the union of a curve and a convex line

Bonsai

A dwarf tree which is a perfect reflection of Japanese culture

lake dwelling

A dwelling, esp. of prehistoric times, built on piles or other supports over the water of a lake.

Astylar

A faced without columns or pilaster in renaissance architecture.

Stadium

A foot race course in the cities.

stadium

A foot race course in the cities.

Great Wall of China

A fortified wall commenced under the Zhou dynasty to protect China against nomads from the north and serve as a means of communication.

Faience

A glazed earth ware originally made in Italy; pottery with colored glaze: earthenware decorated with colored opaque metallic glazes (often used before a noun)

Basilica

A hall built in Roman Empire for the administration of justice.

sod house

A house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used esp. by settlers on the Great Plains when timber was scarce.

Country House

A house composed of natural materials. It is an eclectic and organic look that grows and changes with antiques and a clutter of different collections, made of rough plaster, old beams, wood framed windows and slate or brick floors. A house in the country: a large house in the country, often with a large area of land attached

Le Corbusier

A house is a machine to live in" philosophy belongs to

Nipa House

A house with a prow-like (front of ship) majestic roof, the polychrome, extravagant wooden carvings derived from the Malay Mythical bird the "Sari Manok" The silken Muslim canopies in the Interiors. The protruding ends of floor beams are decorated with intricate carvings

Odeion

A kindred type to the theater.

Exedra

A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church.

Apadana

A large hypostyle hall in Persian architecture; especially in Persepolis

kiva

A large underground or partly underground chamber in a Pueblo Indian village, used by the men for religious ceremonies or councils.

plank house

A large, usually rectangular house constructed of timber planks, built and used by Indians and less frequently by Eskimos.

retablo

A ledge or shelf behind an altar for holding vases or candles.

Xia

A legendary dynasty in China

Reliquary

A light portable receptacle for sacred relics

Arcade

A line of counterthrusting arches on columns or piers.

Narthex

A long arcaded entrance porch in an early Christian church.

Narthex

A long arcaded entrance porch to a Christian Basilican Church

Narthex

A long arcaded entrance porch to a Christian Basilican Church.

Stoa

A long colonnaded building, served many purposes, used around public places and as shelter at religious shrines; an ancient covered walkway: in ancient Greece, a covered walkway, usually with a row of columns on one side and a wall on the other

Aisle

A longitudinal division of an interior area, as in a church, separated from the main area by arcades or the like.

Chancel

A low screen wall enclosing the choir in early Christian church.

Butress

A mass of masonry built against a wall to resist the pressure of an arch & vault.

Pyramid

A massive funerary structure of stone or brick with a square base and four sloping triangular sides meeting at the apex

Cenotaph

A monument erected in memory of one not interned in or under it

Obelisk

A monumental, four-sided stone shaft, usually monolithic and tapering to a pyramidal tip.

Masjid

A mosque principal place of worship, or use of the bldg. for Friday prayers

Candelabra

A movable candle lamp-stand with central shaft, and often branches or decorative representation thereof; a branching light fitting: a large decorative candle holder with several arms or branches, or a similarly shaped electric light fitting

Pagoda

A multi-storied shrine like towers, originally a Buddhist monument of diminishing size with corbelled cornice and moldings.

insula

A multi-story tenement housing for workers

mesa

A natural flat-topped elevation with one or more clifflike sides, common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico.

Bronze Age

A period of human history that followed the Stone Age, characterized by the use of bronze implements.

Confucianism

A philosophy that dominated China until the early 20th century, an ethical system based on the teachings of Confucius. Love for humanity, family and spirits of one's ancestors.

Hypostyle Hall

A pillared hall in which the roofs rests on the column in Egyptian temples.

Acanthus

A plant whose leaves form the lower portions of the Corinthian capital.

totem pole

A pole or post carved and painted with totemic figures, erected by Indians of the northwest coast of North America, esp, in front of their houses.

pit dwelling

A primitive form of shelter consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.

Piazza

A public open space in Byzantine architecture, surrounded by buildings

4-horse Chariot

A quadrigas is a ___.

Ambo

A raised pulpit on either side of a Basilican church from which the epistle of a gospel were read

Bema

A raised stage in a Basilican church reserved for the clergy

Bema

A raised stage reserved for the clergy in early Christian churches.

Arcade

A range of arches supported on piers or columns attached to or detached from the wall.

Niche

A recess in a wall to contain a statue or other small items.

Exedra

A recessed or alcove with raised seats where disputes took place.

Plinth

A rectangular or square slab supporting the column at the base.

Palladianism

A revival style based on the buildings and publications of the 6th century architect marked by ancient Roman Architectural forms

Atrium House

A roman house with a central patio.

Aquaducts

A roman structure where immense quantities of water were required for the great thermae and for public fountains, and for domestic supply for the large population; a channel for water: a pipe or channel for moving water to a lower level, often across a great distance

Mansard

A roof having a double slope on four sides; the lower slope being much steeper and the flatter upper portion. Also known as the gambrel roof.

Helm Roof

A roof in which 4 faces rests diagonally between the gables and converge at the roof.

Belvedere

A roofed but open-sided structure affording an extensive view, usually located at the rooftop of a dwelling but sometimes an independent building or an eminence (a hill) on a formal garden; a building with fine view: a building or part of a building positioned to offer a fine view of the surrounding area

Nymphaeum

A room decorated with plants, sculpture and fountains (often decorated with beautiful Maiden living in Rivers, trees) and intended for relaxation. [nymph: a spirit or a minor goddess of nature; or a beautiful young woman]

Larder

A room where food is stored; a pantry ( a walk-in cupboard); a cupboard

pantry

A room, where food is stored in a manor house.

West door

A rose or wheel window of the Romanesque Church was of ten placed over the

Altars

A secluded place

Apse

A semi-circular or semi-polygonal space, usually in church, terminating in axis and intended to house an altar.

Pantry

A serving room between kitchen and dining room, or a room for storage of food supplies

Impluvium

A shallow cistern or drain area in the center of a house.

Peripteral

A single line of columns surrounding the Naos.

Menhir

A single, large upright monolith, sometimes in parallel rows reaching several miles.

Abacus

A slab forming the crowning member of a column

Abacus

A slab forming the crowning member of the capital.

Fleche

A slender wooden spire rising from a roof. A slender church spire: a slender spire, especially one that emerges from the roof of a church at the point where the ridges intersect.

Camber

A slight convex curvature built into a truss or beam to compensate for an anticipated deflection so that it will gave no sag when under load.

Entasis

A slight vertical curvature in the shaft of a column.

Squinch

A small arch or bracket built across each angle of a square or polygonal structure to form an octagon or other appropriate base for a dome or a spire. An interior supporting part of a tower: an arch, corbelling, or lintel built across the upper inside corner of a square tower to support the weight of a spire or other structure above

Kiosk

A small pavilion, usually open - built in gardens & parks.

Madrassah

A small payer house in Egyptian architecture.

Balneum

A small private bath found in Roman houses or palaces.

Bartizan

A small tower usually corbelled at the corner of the castle.

hut

A small, simple dwelling or shelter, esp. one made of natural materials.

Crypt

A space entirely or partly under a building; in churches, generally beneath the chancel and used for burial in earlier times. An underground chamber: an underground room or vault, often below a church, used as a burial chamber or chapel, or for storing religious artifacts

Tokonama

A special feature of Japanese houses, used to display a flower arrangement or art.

Cupola

A spherical roof, (a dome-shaped roof) placed like an inverted cup over a circular square or multi-angular apartment. A dome on roof: a small dome on a roof, sometimes made of glass and providing natural light inside

Pendentive

A spherical triangle forming the transition from the circular plan of a dome to the polygonal plan of its supporting structure.

jian

A standard unit of space in Chinese architecture marked by adjacent frame supports. The spatial unit serves as basis for the modular structure of a Chinese city.

Module

A standard, usually of length, by which the proportions of a building are determined.

pulpitum

A stone gallery over the entrance to the choir of a cathedral or church.

Space Frame

A structural system consisting of trusses in two directions rigidly connected at their intersections. A rectangular shape is formed where the top and bottom chords of the trusses are directly above & below one another.

viharas

A stupa in a form of a corn cob.

Pedestal

A support for a column statue or a vase, it usually consists of a base. "Die" or Dado, and a cornice or cap mould

Entasis

A swelling or curving outwards along the outline of a column shaft, designed to counteract the optical illusion which gives a shaft bounded by straight lines the appearance of curving inwards; a bulge in architectural column: a slight bulge in the shaft of a column, designed to counter the visual impression of concavity that a perfectly straight column would give

Amphi-Antis

A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front and rear.

In Antis

A temple with 1-4 columns arranged between antae at the front.

wetu

A temporary domed hut of red cedar and grass, used by northeastern North American tribes,

tepee

A tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.

Mausolleum

A term applied to monumental tombs. They consisted of large cylindrical blocks, often on a quadrangular podium, topped with a conical crown of earth or stone.

Mudejar

A term given to the mixture of Christian, Spanish, and Muslim 12th-16th century

Fresco

A term originally applied painting on a wall while the plaster is wet and is not in oil colors. painting done on fresh plaster: a painting on a wall or ceiling made by brushing watercolors onto fresh damp plaster, or onto partly dry plaster

Minaret

A tower in the Muslim Mosque used to call people to prayer.

Belfry

A tower not connected with "Bell". A term applied to the upper room in a tower in which the bells are hung.

Lantern

A tower raised above a roof pierced to admit light.

Pediment

A triangular piece of wall above the entablature enclosed by raking cornices; architecture gable on colonnade: a broad triangular or segmental gable surmounting a colonnade as the major part of a facade

Pinaccle

A turret (small rounded tower) or part of a building elevated above the main building. architecture pointed ornament: a pointed ornament on top of a buttress or parapet

Wreath

A twisted band, garland or chaplet, representing flowers, fruits leaves, often used in decoration; A circular arrangement of flowers: a circular arrangement of flowers and greenery placed as a memorial on a grave, hung up as a decoration, or put on somebody's head as a sign of honor; a representation of wreath: a representation of a circular arrangement of flowers, vines, or other things, for example in a carving or on a coat of arms; [headdress; garland; laurel]

Opus Incertum

A type of Roman wall facing which is made of small stone laid in a loose pattern roughly resembling polygonal work.

Opus Recticulatum

A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like effect

Opus Recticulatum

A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like effect.

Opus Mixtum

A type of Roman wall facing with alternating courses of brickworks.

Choragic Monument

A type of monument erected to support a tripod, as a prize for athletic exercises or

Masjid

A type of mosque that is open to the public.

Fret

A type of ornament in classic or renaissance architecture consisting of an assemblage of straight lines intersecting at right angles, and of various patterns.

Strapwork

A type of relief ornament or cresting [cresting: a decorative roof ridge: an ornamental ridge on a roof ] resembling the studded leather straps arranged in geometrical and sometimes interlaced patterns much used in the early renaissance architecture of England.

Opus Quadratum

A type of roman wall facing with rectangular block with or without mortar joints.

Groin Vault

A vault created when two barrel vaults intersect at the right angles.

Dome

A vault having a circular plan, and usually in the form of a sphere portion, so constructed as to exert an equal thrust in all directions

Stellar Vault

A vault in which the ribs compose a "star-shaped" pattern

Clepsydra

A water clock or an instrument for measuring time by the use of water.

Gargoyle

A waterspout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely(Sculpture).

Dormer

A window in a sloping roof usually that of a sleeping apartment. A window projecting from roof: a window for a room within the roof space that is built out at right angles to the main roof and has its own gable

Clerestory

A windowed wall that rises above the roof of adjacent walls that admit light into the interior.

CC. de cstro

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES

Philip Jhonson

AT&T BLDG, NY

Greek

Agora is from what architecture?

Finial

Also called "key pattern" the upper portion of the pinnacle [pinnacle: pointed ornament: a pointed ornament on top of a buttress or parapet]; an architectural decoration: a carved decoration at the top of a gable, spire, or arched structure

Modilions

Also called 'brackets" or "consoles" or "ancones". It is a projecting member to support a weight. generally formed with scrolls or volutes which carry the upper member of a cornice (a projecting moulding at the top of a wall or at where the wall & ceiling meets); also a bracket in Corinthian order: a small curved ornamental bracket under the corona of a Corinthian or Composite column

Anthemion

Also called a 'Honeysuckle' ornament.

Burma

Also known as Siam (before 1993) and was named, meaning "land of the free"

Frank Loyd Wright

American architect, who was a pioneer of the modern style. He is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th-century architecture.

Gladiatorial Contests

Amphitheaters are used for ___.

wigwam

An American Indian dwelling, usually of round or oval shape, formed of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats or animal skins.

Megaron

An Anatolian house that has its entrance at the end.

igloo

An Eskimo house, usually built of blocks of hard snow or ice in the shape of a dome, or when permanent, of sod, wood or stone.

Palazzo

An Italian impressive building or private building

Eclectic

An adjective used to describe an artist who selects forms and ideas from different periods or countries and combines them to produce a harmonious whole.

Fertile Crescent

An agricultural region arching from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the west to Iraq in the east, the location of humankind's earliest cultures.

Mastaba

An ancient Egyptian rectangular, flat-topped funerary mound with battered (sloping) sides covering a burial chamber blow ground

Stoa

An ancient Greek Portico, a long colonnaded shelter used in public places.

Mesopotamia

An ancient region in western Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers occupied successively by SBAPS.

Dolmen

An ancient structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone

totem

An animal, plant, or natural object serving as an emblem of a family or clan by virtue of an ancestral relationship.

Vestibule

An ante-room to a larger apartment of a building; An entrance hall: a small room or hall between an outer door and the main part of a building

Atrium

An approach or an open forecourt surrounded by arcades in a Basilican church.

Loggia

An arcade of roofed gallery built into or projecting from the side of a building particularly one overlooking an open court. A covered balcony and walkway: a covered open-sided walkway, often with arches, along one side of a building

Art Noveau

An art free from any historical style characterized by forms of nature for ornamentation in the façade aptly called for the floral design.

Antillan House

An elegant two storey, rectangular town house with a massive stone first floor, and a light and airy second floor, mother-of-pearl or "capiz" windows and picturesque wide tile roof. Entrance is of Heavy plank door with wrought iron or brass nails, sturdy balustrades of wood or iron grilles below windows to let in cool air.

Pulpit

An elevated enclosed stand in a CHURCH in which the preacher stands

Cenotaph

An empty tomb. A monument erected in memory of one not interred in or under it.

Quoins

An eternal solid angle of a wall or the like. One of the stones forming it, corner stone (Renaissance) A block forming a corner: a stone block used to form a quoin, especially when it is different, for example in size or material, from the other blocks or bricks in the wall

Great temple of Abu-Simbel

An example of a rock-cut temple, with 4 collosal statues of Ramses

Churrigueresque

An expression of Spanish baroque architecture and sculpture, a recurrent feature was the richly garlanded spiral columns. [flamboyant-showy; brightly colored; highly decorated ornamentation]

Mosque

An inward-looking building whose prime purpose is for contemplation & prayer. A space without object of adoration. (Muslim)

Belvedere

An open-roofed gallery in an upper storey built for giving a view of the scenery.

Scroll

An ornament consisting of a spirally wound band, either as a running ornament or as a terminal, like the volutes of the ionic capital.

Baldachino

An ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently place over the altar in a church.

Finial

An ornate iron grille, or screen, a characteristic feature of Spanish Church interiors; An architectural decoration: a carved decoration at the top of a gable, spire, or arched structure

Chatris

An umbrella shaped copula.

Antefix (Antefixae)

An upright ornament at the eaves of a tile roof, concealing the foot of a row of convex tiles that cover the joints of the flat tiles.

Embrasures

Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement.

Voussoirs

Any of the pieces, in the shape of a truncated wedge, which form an arch or a vault. A wedge-shaped stone: a wedge-shaped brick or stone used to form the curved parts of an arch or vault

Yamasaki and Roth

Arch of the famous Twin Tower World Trade Center.

Alvar Aalto

Architect and furniture designer.

William Van Alen

Architect of Chrysler Building

Eero Saarinen

Architect of Dulles Airport

Leandro Locsin

Architect of Folk Arts Theatre

Carlos Santos Viola

Architect of Iglesia ni Cristo.

Juan Arellano

Architect of Legislative Building (National Museum)

Juan Arellano

Architect of Manila Central Post Office

Welton Becket

Architect of Manila Hilton Hotel.

Jose Maria Zaragosa

Architect of Meralco Building

William Coscolluela

Architect of Robinson's Galleria

William Cosculluela

Architect of Robinson's Galleria

Antonio Sin Diong

Architect of SM Megamall.

Norman Foster

Architect of Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong

Eero Saarinen

Architect of TWA Airport.

Eero Saarinen

Architect of TWA airport.

IM Pei

Architect of Texas Commerce Tower.

Le Corbusier

Architect of Villa Savoye

IM Pei

Architect of the Bank of China.

Benjamin Morris

Architect of the Bank of New York.

Felipe Mendoza

Architect of the Batasang Pambansa.

Marcel Lajos Breuer

Architect of the Bi-Nuclear House, the H-Plan.

Le Corbusier

Architect of the Carpenter Center.

Leandro Locsin

Architect of the Chapel of the Holy Sacrifice.

Sir Norman Foster

Architect of the Chek Lap Kok Airport where natural light, tensioned membrane and anthropometrically correct dimensions were emphasized.

Eliel Saarinen

Architect of the Chicago Tribune Tower.

Erich Mendelsohn

Architect of the Einstein Tower.

William Lamb

Architect of the Empire State Building.

Mnesicles

Architect of the Erechtheion.

Ptolemy III

Architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria.

Frank Gehry

Architect of the Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao.

IM Pei

Architect of the Louvre pyramid.

George Ramos

Architect of the Lung Center of the Philippines.

Juan Arellano

Architect of the Metropolitan Theatre.

Felipe Mendoza

Architect of the National Library, Philippines.

Renzo Piano

Architect of the New York Times Building.

Cesar Pelli

Architect of the Petronas Tower.

Populous

Architect of the Philippine Arena?

George Ramos

Architect of the Philippine Heart Center.

Juan Nakpil

Architect of the Philippine Heart Center.

Juan Nakpil

Architect of the Rizal Memorial Stadium.

IM Pei

Architect of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Antonio Gaudi

Architect of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Robert Venturi

Architect of the Seattle Museum, 1991

Philip Johnson

Architect of the Sony Center

Jorn Utzon

Architect of the Sydney Opera House

Theron

Architect of the Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum

Libon

Architect of the Temples of Zeus, Olympia.

Renzo Piano

Architect of the Tjibao Cultural Center.

Teofilo Vasquez

Architect of the UAP National Headquarters

James Hoban

Architect of the White House, D.C.

Minoru Yamasaki

Architect of the World Trade Center.

Mnesicles

Architect of the famous Propylaea, Acropolis.

Mnesicles

Architect of the famous propylaea, Acropolis.

Felipe Mendoza

Architect of the national library, Philippines.

Juan Nakpil

Architect responsible for the addition of the dome and second belfry of the Quiapo Church.

Francisco Manosa

Architect who leads the development of the 'Quezon Memorial Circle" in Quezon City.

Anthemius and Isidorus

Architects of the Hagia Sophia. (St. Sophia, Constantinople)

Callicrates and Ictinus

Architects of the Parthenon.

Beton Brut

Architectural concrete left unfinished or roughly finished after pouring and intentionally left exposed visually.

Islamic

Architectural style characterized by Friezes and Crestings

Brutalism

Architectural style characterized by bold forms, harsh proportions, and rough materials such as exposed concrete, steel and wood.

Sagrada Familia

Art Noveau inspired structure by Antonio Gaudi that remains to be unfinished. Located in Spain.

Jugendstijl

Art Noveau is known as the international style, in Germany it is known as ___.

Tussel House

Art Noveau style first appeared in what structure.

Ziggurat

Artificial Mountains made up of tiered (layered), rectangular stages which rose in number from one to seven

Ziggurats

Artificial mountains, tiered with rectangular stages and a temple at the summit.

IM pei

BANK OF CHINA, HK

Walter Gropius

BAUHAUS BLDG, GERMANY

Bent pyramid at Seneferu

Best example of Egyptian bent pyramid

Step Pyramid of Zoser

Best example of Egyptian step pyramid

Acroteria

Blocks resting on the vertex and lower extremities of the pediment to support atatuary or ornament

Boss/ Groin

Boss (vaulted or flat); groin (vaulted only)

18

Both the regula and the mutule has guttae numbering a total of ___.

mingtang

Bright hall: a ritual structure in Chinese architecture that serves as the symbolic center of imperial power.

Harappa

Bronze Age culture that flourishes in the Indus Valley

Torana

Buddhist gateway

Morong Church

Built by the Franciscan priest Fr. Blas dela Madre, this church in Rizal whose design depicts the heavy influence of Spanish Baroque, was declared a national treasure.

Senenmut

Built the Temple of Hatshepsut

Helm Roof

Bulbous termination to the top of a tower, found principally in Central & Eastern Europe

pitakat-taik

Burma's term for monasteries.

Dennis Lau & NG Chun Man

CENTRAL PLAZA Hong Kong

Le corbusuier

CHAPEL OF NOTRE DAME

Rayonant

CHARACTERIZED BY RADIATING LINES OF TRACERY

Flamboyant

CHARATERIZED BYFLOWING A FLAME-LIKE TRACERY.

Willian Van Allen

CHRYSLER BUILDING, NY

Dennis Lau & NG Chun Man

CITIC PLAZA Guangzhou, China

Leandro Locsin

CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES

Baldochino

Canopy of the altar.

Atlantes

Carved male figures serving as pillars also called TELAMONES; architecture figure of man used as support: a figure of a man, either standing or kneeling, used as a support for the upper part of a classical building

Greek

Caryatid porch is from what architecture?

Antonio Gaudi

Casa Batllo, Barcelona Spain

Gabriel Formoso

Central Bank of the Philippines, Manila.

Hieroglyphics

Characteristic wall ornament of the egyptians

Zhou

Chinese dynasty marked by the division of China into separate feudal states, and the emergence of Confucianism and Taoism, which gave thrust to all subsequent Chinese culture.

Qin

Chinese dynasty marked by the emergence of a centralized government and the construction of much of the Great Wall.

Zhou dynasty

Chinese dynasty that commenced the construction of the Great Wall.

pailou

Chinese monumental gateway.

Taoism

Chinese philosophy and religion based on the teaching of Lao-tzu, emphasizing the life of simplicity, and non interference with the course of natural events in order to attain a happy existence in harmony with the Tao.

Babylonians

Civilization that conceptualized the number "0".

SBAPS (Sumer, Babylonian, Assyria, Persia, Sassanian)

Civilizations that originated in Mesopotamia?

Lacunaria

Coffers, sunken panels in the ceiling.

Eclecticism

Combination of the new art and the graphing of the old art.

Callimachus

Conceptualized the Corinthian capital.

Vigan

Considered as the Intramuros of the North.

Stonehenge

Consists of a complex of "sarsen" (any of the many large sedimentary rocks that have been broken into blocks by frost action and are found scattered across the chalk downs of southern England )stones and smaller blue stones set in a circle and connected by lintels

Ancones

Consoles on either side of a doorway supporting a cornice

Ifugao/ Bontoc House

Cordillera one room house on four wooden posts with an animal or insect barrier and a pyramidal roof Cogon grass built without nails

Forum

Corresponds (links) to the Agora in a Greek city was a central open space, used a public meeting space, market or rendezvous for political demonstrations.

Cella

Corresponds to the Greek naos.

Coisters

Covered passages around an open space or "Garth", connecting the church to the chapter house; a small courtyard or enclosed space

Joseph Paxton

Crystal Palace, England

W.S. Atkins & partners

DUBAI BURJ-AL-ARAB

Eero Saarinen

DULLES AIRPORT VIRGINIA, USA

Mosaic

Decorative surfaces formed by small cubes of stones, glass & marble

Theron

Designer of Temple of Zeus, Agrigentum

Juan Nakpil

Designer of the Bonifacio Monument.

Sir Joseph Paxton

Designer of the Crystal Palace, London

Shah Jahan

Designer of the Taj Mahal.

Satyros and Pythias

Designers of The Mausoleum, Helicarnassus. Most famous of all tombs.

3 Diameters

Diastyle intercolumniation has how many diameters.

Eclecticism

Different historical styles combined.

Stupa

Domical mound containing a relic.

Stupa

Domical mounds which grouped with their rails, gateways, professional paths and crowning umbrella came to be known as symbols of the universe; a Buddhist shrine, temple, or pagoda that houses a relic or marks the location of an auspicious event.

Tumulus

Dominant tomb type in the prehistoric age, characterized by corbelled stone covered by earth.

Sudatorium

Dry sweating room in the thermae

Thermae

Dry sweating room with apodyteila or dressing room and unctuaria or for oils.

Woolworth Building

Dubbed the "Cathedral of Commerce" due to the many medieval style ornaments that embellish the building.

Erich Mendelson

EINSTEIN TOWER

SHREVE, HARMON & LAMB

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING New York

Stone Age

Earliest known period of human culture, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age and characterized bu the use of stone implements and weapons.

Medieval Organic City

Early type of settlement in America taken after the "baug" (military town) and "fauborg" (citizen's town) of the medieval ages

Terracotta

Earth-baked (unglazed) or burnt in moulds. For use in construction, harder in quality than brick. [brownish red color]

Tumuli

Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons.

IM pei

East Building, National Gallery of Art 1978 Washington, D.C.

Cult Temple

Egyptian Temple for popular worship of the ancient and mysterious gods.

9-10D

Egyptian obelisk height in proportion to its diameter?

Mortuary Temple

Egyptian temples for ministrations to deified pharaohs.

Cult Temple

Egyptian temples for the popular worship of the ancient and the mysterious gods.

Rock-cut/ Rock-hewn

Egyptian tombs built for noblemen, but not royalty; to keep thieves away

984 ft.

Eiffel tower I Paris stands.

U.S. / English Renaissance

Elizabethan Architecture is from what architecture.

Colosseum

Elliptical Amphitheatres are characteristically Roman buildings found in every important settlement, used to display of mortal combats (gladiatorial)

Crenel

Embrasures.

Chromlech

Enclosure formed by huge stones planted on the ground in circular form

Cromlech

Enclosure formed by huge stones planted on the ground in circular forms.

1/5

Entablature height of the Corinthian order based on the height of order

1/4

Entablature height of the Doric order based on the height of order

1/2

Entablature height of the Ionic order based on the height of order

Prehistoric

Existing in the time prior to the recording of human events.

Erich Mendelsohn

Expressionist Architect.

EERo Saarinen

FUNCTION INFLUENCE BUT DOES NOT DICTATE FORM

History Geography Geology Climate Society Religion

Factors affecting the styles of architecture (6)

Brunelleschi

Famous architect in Florence renaissance archre.

Hundred Column Hall

Famous term for the Hypostyle hall of Xerxes.

Lucio Costa

Father of modern architectural movement in Brazil.

Palm, Lotus, and Papyrus

Favorite motifs of design of the Egyptians.

Canephora

Female statues with baskets serving as columns.

Termini

Figures of which the upper parts alone are carved, the rest running into a parallelopiped or diminishing pedestal.

Chartres Cathedral

Finest example of French-Gothic architecture

Alocabaca, Portugal

Finest or Romanesque castles in Spain is at ____

Pyramids Giza

Finest true Egyptian Pyramids

Jose Herrera

First elected U.A.P. president.

Juan Nakpil

First president and founder of PAS.

Tomas Mapua

First registered architect in the Philippines.

Liceo de Manila

First school which offered architecture in the Philippines

Liceo de Manila

First school which offered architecture in the Philippines.

Yolanda Reyes

First woman national architect to be elected president of the UAP.

Balance

Formal architecture, one of the principles of composition.

Propylaea

Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the architect Mnesicles

Ludwig Mies Van De Rohe

Formulated "Cubism and Futurism

Zaguan

Found in the ground floor of the bahay na bato, it is where the carriages and floats are kept.

Walter Gropius

Founder of Bahaus School

Felipe Mendoza

Founder of Batasang Pambansa

Walter Gropius

Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art.

John Ruskin and William Moris

Founders of the "Art Noveau".

rocaile

France generally describe rococo as

Lucio Costa

French-born, Brazilian architect and urban planner. This famous axiom "Each one sees whatever he wishes to see" belongs to,

Domical roof construction

From the 5th century to the present, the character of Byzantine architecture is the practice of using.

Crepidoma

From the Greek forms of temple, the three where it lies is known as ___.

Amphi-Prostyle

From the Greek temples, a temple that have porticoes of columns at the front and rear.

Cambodian

From what architecture is the Angkor Vat?

Greek

From what architecture is the Stoa?

Saracenic architecture

From what style did Muslim architects pattern their structures?

George Ramos

G.S.I.S. Building, Roxas Boulevard.

Buckminster Fuller

GEODESIC DOME

Frank Gehry

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Bilbao,Spain

Frank Loyd Wright

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM New York

sober & dignified

General characteristic of the Romanesque empire was

Arabesque

Geometrical ornaments due to absence of human and animal statues; an ornate design

Philip Jhonson

Glass House, New Caanan, Connecticut

God Horus

Great Sphinx at Gizeh

Columnar trabeated

Greek architecture was essentially.

Agora

Greek equivalent of the Roman forum, a place of open air assembly or market.

Doric

Greek order that has no base.

Sculptured Reliefs

Greek sculptures may be classified as "architectural sculpture, free standing statuary,

Lord Norman Robert Foster

HSBC Hongkong

Buckminster Fuller

He created the Dymaxion House, "the first machine for living".

Bernini

He erected the entrance Piazza at St. Peter's Basilica.

Oscar Niemeyer

His contributions where the advocacy of the idea of planning rooms by volume.

Ziggurat

Holy mountains.

transom

Horizontal divisions or crossbars of windows.

Seven Stages

How many stages do the Assyrian Ziggurats have?

176

How many stained glass are there in the Chartres Cathedral?

Obelisk

Huge monoliths, square on plan and tapering to an electrum-capped (alloy of silver & gold) "pyra-midion" at the summit, which was the sacred part. The four sides are cut with hieroglyphics

Bale

Ifugao house (southern strain).

Gate of Ishtar

In Babylonian architecture, the gates that were dedicated to the gods.

Yin-yan

In Chinese philosophy and religion, the interaction of two opposing and complementary principles - one that is feminine, dark and negative (yin) and the other that is masculine, bright and positive (yang) - that influences the destinies of creatures and things.

Pyramid

In Egyptian architecture, the tomb of the pharaohs is the.

Grapes

In Egyptian decoration, this symbolized eternity.

Scarab

In Egyptian decoration, this symbolized resurrection.

baroque

In France, anything extravagantly ornamented, so ornate as to be in bad taste, a style of art and architecture in Italy in the 17th to 18th century.

Naos

In Greek temples, the equivalent of the crypt is the ___.

Gymnasium

In Greek, it is the Roman prototype of the Thermae.

Dikka

In Islamic Architecture, it is a tribune raised upon colimns from which the Koran is recited and prayers are intoned by the Imam.

Maqsura

In Islamic architecture, it is the sanctuary or praying chamber in a mosque. Sometimes enclosed with a screen of lattice work.

Tea House

In Japan, a structure where the appreciation of the arts and flower arrangement, with drinking ceremony is done

Ziggurat

In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun-dried bricks.

Assyrian

In Mesopotamian culture, which civilization uses winged bulls, glazed bricks and murals?

Salon

In Renaissance, a room used primarily for exhibition of art objects, or a drawing room;[grand sitting room; social gathering of intellectuals; art exhibition or gallery]

Lacus

In Roman fountains, the large basin of water.

Apotheca

In ancient Greece and Rome, a storeroom of any kind, but especially for storing wine.

Exedra

In ancient Greece/ Rome, a room or covered area or open on one side used as a meeting place; architecture history conversation room: a room for relaxation or conversation, especially a semicircular recess in a larger hall with a continuous bench along the wall; furniture long curved outdoor bench: a long curved or semicircular outdoor bench, usually with a high back; architecture recess: any kind of recess or niche (technical)

Entablature

In classical architecture, the elaborated beam member carried by the columns.

Apse

In early Christian churches, the bishop took the central place at the end of the church

Hypostyle hall

In egyptian temples, a pillared hall in which the roof rests on columns

Palladian

In renaissance archre, which is logically staid and serene architectural style?

Bema

In some churches, there is a part which is raised as part of the sanctuary which later developed into the transept, this is the ___.

White Box Architecture

In the 1920's, Le Corbusier was known for promoting this Architectural Style.

Acanthus and Dolphin

In the Cyma Reversa molding of the Romans, what ornaments are usually found?

Hypotrachelion

In the Doric Order, the shaft terminates in the ___.

Architrave

In the classical order, the lowest part or member of the entablature; the beam that spans from column to column.

Dapogan

In the kitchen of the bahay kubo, the table on top of which is the river stone, shoe-shaped stove or kalan is known as ___.

Amenemhat I

In the middle kingdom, in Egyptian architecture, who consolidate the administrative system, made a survey of the country, set boundaries to the provinces, and other helpful works.

Doric

In what Order is the Parthenon.

Ionic

In what Order is the temple of Nike Apteros, Athens.

Gopuram

Indian/hindu gateway

Ken

Intercolumniation is regulated by this standard of Japanese measurement, which is divided into 20 parts called minutes and each minute being again divided into 20 parts or seconds of space.

Systyle

Intercolumniation of 2 diameters.

Eustyle

Intercolumniation of 2.25 diameters.

Areostyle

Intercolumniation of 4 diameters.

Baroque

Intoduced thin shell construction using reinforced concrete.

Hennevique

Invented reinforced concrete in France.

Batter

Inward inclination or slope of an outward wall

campanile

Is a circular tower 16 m ( 52 ft. ) in diameter rising in 8 stories of encircling arcades.

Pilaster Strip

Is a rectangular feature in the shape of a pillar, but projecting only about one sixth of its breadth (distance from side to side) from the wall.

Mammisi temple

Is considered to be the prototype of Greek temples

Kankanay

It is a traditional house that was called binangiyan. It was a single room dwelling elevated at 1.50 meters from the ground; the floor were made of hard wood like narra which rested on 3 floor joist which in turn were supported by transverse girders

Queen anne Style

It is the eclectic style of domestic architecture of the 1870's and the 1880's in England and the USA and actually based on country house and cottage Elizabeth architecture which was characterized by a blending of Tudor Gothic, English Renaissance and colonial elements in the USA

Decorated Style

It is the third phase of English-Gothic Architecture where elaborated ornamental vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques

Mosque

It is where Muslims pray.

biyong

Jade ring moat: a ritual structure in Chinese architecture enclosing a space in the shape of a flat jade ceremonial disk.

Irrimoya Gable

Japanese dominant roofs characterized by their exquisite curvature, and are supported upon a succession of simple or compound brackets. The upper part of the roof is terminated by a gable placed vertically above the end walls, while the lower part of the main roof is carried round the ends of the building in a hipped form.

Cha-sit-su

Japanese tea house

Cha-sit-su

Japanese tea house.

SOM

John Hancock Center Chicago

Bruce Graham & SOM

John Hancock Center, Chicago Illinois

Heb-sed

Jubilee festivals of the pharaohs.

Imhotep

King Zoser's architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty.

Donato Bramante

Known architect in early renaissance.

Eugene Fressinnet

Known for Prestressed Concrete.

SOM

LEVER HOUSE - was one of the earliest steel and glass office towers and the first such tower in New York City.

Khufu

Largest pyramid in the Giza complex.

Neolithic

Last phase of the Stone Age, characterization by the cultivation of grain crops, domestication of animals. From 'Neo' + 'Lithos'

Hammurabi Code

Law used as basis for the planned city of Babylon,

mouldings

Leafed ornament.

Robert Venturi

Less is Bore / "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture"

Frank Loyd Wright

Less is more only when more is too much

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Less is more.

Herms

Like Caryatids and Atlantes, this is a three-quarter length figures.

Groins

Line of intersection of cross-vaults

Persepolis

Literally means "City of Persia"; this is where you will most like;y find bull-capped columns

maranao House

Lowlands area house with pithed roof, made of bamboo poles, thatch roof with woven slit canes for walls and split bamboo slats flooring

Kenzo tange

MODERN ARCHITECTURE NEED NOT BE WESTERN

Ivatan House

Made of 0.75 m. thick stone of lime wall with thick thatched roof made of several layers of cogon and held together by seasoned sticks or reeds and rattan to withstand fiercest typhoons in the north

Baroque for of Ornamentation

Major contribution of the Renaissance Architecture.

Telamones or Atlantes

Male counterpart of the Caryatids.

Muenzzin

Man who leads the congregation at a prayer

Opus tesselatum

Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes

Opus Tesselatum

Marble mosaic pattern used on ceilings of vaults and domes.

Opus spicatum

Marble mosaic pattern used on the floor

Pyramids

Massive funerary structure of stone or brick with square plan and four sloping triangular sides meeting at the apex.

Phidias

Master sculptor of the Parthenon.

mud-bricks

Material used by Sumerians in their buildings.

Paleolithic

Means Old stone, first part of prehistoric age

Cenotaphs

Memorial monuments of persons buried elsewhere in Roman architecture.

Persian

Mesopotamian civilization that first introduced the use of column.

Felix Outerino Candela

Mexican Architect/Engineer who introduced thin shell construction.

Electrum

Mixture of silver and gold; material capping the obelisks of Egypt.

Stambas / Laths

Monumental pillars standing free without any structural function, with circular or octagonal shafts with inscriptions carved in it. The capital was bell-shaped and crowned with animal supported bearing the Buddhist will of Law.

Great Wall

Most famous of ancient Chinese building undertakings. It snakes, loops, and doubles back on itself. Meandering across valleys, plains, scaling mountains, plunging into deep gorges and leaping raging rivers of 3,700 miles.

Pagoda

Most typical Chinese building, usually octagonal in plan, odd number o stories usually 9 or 13 storeys and repeated roofs, highly colored and with upturned eaves, slopes to each storey.

Sphinx

Mythical monsters each with the body of a lion and a head of a man, hawk, ram or woman possessed

Mesopotamia

Near East architecture is generally architecture that started from which area?

Columbaria

Niches, similar to pigeon-holes formed in the rock where ashes of the dead, placed in an urn, were deposited.

Khufu

Not among the three pyramids in Gizeh

Palace of Sargon

Notable Assyrian palace?

Le corbusuier

Notre Dame du Haut or Ronchamp, France

Ambo

On either side of the choir, pulpits for the reading of the epistle and the gospel are

Baluster

One of a number of short vertical members often circular in section used to support a stair handrail or a coping (wall's capping surface).

House #33

One of the best examples of a surviving megaron type of Greek domestic building.

Nea Moni

One of the few churches of its type to have survived having a square nave and without

Cherubs

One of the winged heavenly beings that support the throne of God or act as guardian spirits, or Chubby, a rosy-faced child with wings

Bungallow

One storey with low-overhanging roof and broad front porch. Unpretentious style often rambling spread out floor plan, more expensive to build; lightweight tropical house: a simply-built one-storey house with a veranda and a wide, gently sloping roof in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific

Cardinal points

Orientation of prehistoric architectures faces ________.

South

Orientation of the Etruscan temple is towards the ___.

East

Orientation of the Greek temple is towards the ___.

West

Orientation of the Medieval Church

West

Orientation of the Medieval Church.

Forum

Orientation of the Roman temple is towards the ___.

kibla

Originally the minaret of the mosque.

Adolf Loos

Ornament is a crime

Wata Dage

Outstanding architectural creation in Sri Lanka which is a circular relic house built in stone and brick.

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, BRAZIL

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS, BRAZIL

Thermae

Palatial public baths of Imperial Rome raised on a high platform; hot springs: hot springs or baths, especially the public baths of ancient Rome

S-tiles

Pantiles used for Chinese roofings.

Cornice, Frieze, Architrave

Parts of an entablature, in order of top to bottom.

Plateresque Architecture

Phase of the early period of Spanish architecture of the later 15th and early 16th century, an intricate style named after its likeness to silverwork; elaborately decorated: relating to a heavily decorated architectural style fashionable in 16th-century Spain, reminiscent of elaborate silverware

Jose Zaragoza

Phillipine National artist declared on 2014?

Hieroglyphics

Pictorial representation of religious ritual, historic events and daily pursuits

Tudor Revival

Picturesque composition built in America since 1980. Hall timbering and massive medieval chimney. Identified by prominent gables and large expansive windows with small panes.

Pinacle

Pinnacle(highest point); fleche (a church spire); spire (tapering termination of a gothic church tower); finial (a design at the top of a spire)

Octagonal

Plan shape of a Chinese pagoda.

Square

Plan shape of a Japanese pagoda.

Mayan Temple Pyramid

Pre-Columbian edifice dedicated to the service or worship of their god which is made of stones entered by a single door to a very steep single flight of steps, above it rises a high stone roof

Frank Loyd Wright

Price Tower, Oklahoma

Megaron

Principal room of Anatolian House

Zaha Hadid

Pritzker Prize Awardee of 2004

Haram

Private chambers in an Assyrian palace

Harem

Private family apartments in Assyrian palaces.

Domus

Private house of the Romans

Crocket

Projecting blocks of stone carved with foliage, typical in Gothic architecture.

Plough

Projecting ornament at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat.

10D

Proportion of a Greek Corinthian column

4-6.5D

Proportion of a Greek Doric column

9D

Proportion of a Greek Ionic column

1.5 Diameters

Pycnostyle intercolumniation has how many diameters?

Quoins / Squinch

Quoins (just a corner stone) vs. squinch (structural arch to support a dome)

Marcus Vitruvius

RCHITECTURE MUST MEET 3 REQUIREMENTS: STENGTH, BEAUTY, UNITY

Capiz shells

Raw natural material that traditional Filipino Architecture used as motifs in the design of their home?

Loculi

Recesses for the corpses sealed with a front slab inscribed with the name of the dead

Mastaba

Rectangular, flat-topped funerary mound; with a battered side, covering a burial chamber below ground.

Architectonic

Relating or conforming to technical architectural principles.

Neo-Classism

Return in the use of Roman Orders in modern age.

Romanesque

Revival of classical Roman style

Sarcophagus

Richly carved coffins of Greece and Mesopotamia.

IM pei

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Cleveland, Ohio

Rarhs

Rock-cut temples in India

Insulae

Roman apartment block that rose four or more storey high

Insulae

Roman apartment blocks

Insula

Roman apartment blocks.

Cossutius

Roman architect of the Greek Temples of Zeus, Olympius.

Colosseum

Roman building for which gladiatorial battles took place.

Circus

Roman building which is a prototype of the hippodrome of the Greek.

Bepidales

Roman large square tiles.

Podium

Roman rectangular temples stood on a ___.

Marble

Romanesque architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the use of what material for facing walls.

Unctuaria

Room containing the ungents and oils in the thermae

Manuel manosa

SAN MIGUEL CORP. BUILDING

Bruce Graham

SEARS TOWER Chicago

Shreve , Lamb & Harmon

SHUN HING SQUARE Shenzhen, China

Frank Loyd Wright

SOLOMON GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

Sir Christopher Wren

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LONDON (1675-1710

Jorn Utzon

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

Ziggurat

Sacred artificial mountains of Babylon and Assyria.

Kibla

Sacred enclosure found at walls of Damascus great mosque

Antonio Gaudi

Sagrada Familia, Spain

Visayan

Sarimanok is a décor reflecting the culture of the ___.

Parti

Scheme or solution of a problem in architecture.

Guillermo Tolentino

Sculptor for the Bonifacio Monument.

Caryatids

Sculptures female figures used as columns or supports

Carlos Baretto

Second Filipino registered architect after the well-known Tomas Mapua

Castle

Secular architecture

Villa

Semi-palatial house surrounded by an open site

Villa

Semi-palatial house surrounded by an open site.

Prytaneion

Senate house for chief dignitaries in Greek architecture

Khan

Service chambers in an Assyrian palace

Torii

Shinto temples (Shinto-Japanese religion) are characterized by this gateway formed by upright posts supporting two or more horizontal beams

West minister abbey

Single and most important building in Britain.

Fortress

Sited and designed to secure the routes from coastal ports to Jerusalem

Little Metropole Cath., Athens

Smallest cathedral in the world. (Byzantine period)

Little Metropole Cathedral, Athens

Smallest cathedral in the world. (Byzantine period)

shelter

Something beneath, behind or within which a person is protected from storms or other adverse conditions.

intercolumnation

Space between the columns.

Cimborio

Special term for a lantern or raised structure above a roof admitting light into the interior

Salientes

Spouting jets in Roman fountain.

Barma & Posnik

St.Basil Cathedral, Russia

Buckminster Fuller

Starting with holes" belongs to architect

Acroterion / Acroterium

Strictly, a pedestal at the corners or peak of a roof to support an ornament, more usually, the ornament itself.

Arch

Structure of wedge-shaped blocks over an opening.

Ziggurat

Structure whose corners are made to face the four cardinal points.

Ziggurat

Structure whose corners were made to face the four cardinal points

Pyramid

Structure whose sides are made to face the four cardinal points.

Pyramid

Structure whose sides were made to face the four cardinal points.

Amon-ra

Sun god of the Egyptians

Coffers

Sunk panels, caissons or lacunaria formed in ceilings, vaults or domes; sunken panel in a ceiling: a decorative sunken panel in a ceiling

Francisco Bobby Manosa

TAHANANG FILIPINO/ COCONUT PALACE

C.Y. lee & partners

TAIPEI 101 TAIPEI,TAIWAN

DP Archts & Micheal Wilford

THE ESPLANADE Singapore

IM pei

THE LOUVRE

Eero Saarinen

TWA KENNEDY AIRPORT, NY

Saracenic Architecture

Taj Mahal is a building example of what architecture.

Agra

Taj Mahal temple is located in ___.

Sarcophagus

Taken from a tomb chamber, or the ornamental treatment given to a stone coffin hewn out of one block of marble and with sculptures, figures and festoons (garland) of a late period, surmounted by lids like roofs terminating in scrolls. stone coffin: an ancient stone or marble coffin, often decorated with sculpture and inscriptions

Prostyle

Temple with a portico of columns arranged in front.

Dipteral

Temples in Greece that have a double line of columns surrounding the naos.

finial

Term applied to a tower crowned by a spire.

Picturesqueness

Term in a specialized sense to describe one of the attitudes of taste towards architecture and landscape gardening in the late 18th and early 19th century; very attractive: visually pleasing enough to be the subject of a painting or photograph

Gymnaceum

That part of a Greek house or Byzantine Church reserved for women

Bayon

The Buddhist temple in ancient Cambodia which feature four faces of the compassionate Buddha.

Art Deco

The Chrysler building is a classic example of what architectural style?

Key Pattern

The Corona is usually painted with the ___.

Papyrus

The Egyptian Ornament symbolizing fertility.

Greek

The Erechtheion of Mnesicles is from what architecture?

Caryatid Porch

The Erectheion, Athens which stands on the north of the Parthenon has an unusual feature which is the?

Tuscan

The Etruscans invented what column?

Federico Ilustre

The Filipino Architect Who Designed the 66Meters(217 ft') height Pylons Quezon Memorial Circle.

Great Temple of Ammon, Karnak

The Grandest Temple of all Egyptian temples, it was not built by upon one complete plan but owes its size, disposition and magnificence to the work of many Kings. Built from the 12th Dynasty to the Ptolemaic period

Bouleuterion

The Greek council house which is covered meeting place for the democratically-elected council is called

Atlantes

The Greek male statues used as columns.

Doric

The Greek order that do not have a base

Calidarium

The Hot room of the Thermae

Calidarium

The Hot room of the Thermae.

Texas Commerce Tower

The JP Morgan Chase tower is originally known as __________?

Roman

The Pantheon is from what architecture.

Greek

The Parthenon is from what architecture.

Tao

The Way: in Chinese religion, the creative principle that order the universe.

Aqueduct

The arched waterways erected to supply most parts of Rome with water

IM Pei

The architect of "Essensa", one of the premier high rise residential condominiums in Bonifacio Global City.

Van Alen

The architect of Chrysler building in N.Y.

Mnesicles

The architect of the Erectheion

Agrippa

The architect of the Pantheon.

Juan Nakpil

The architect of the Quiapo Church before its restoration.

Renzo Piano

The architect of the Shard in London.

Callicrates

The architect of the Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens

le Corbusier

The architect who said that the exterior of the building is the result of the interior.

Ictinus and Callicratus

The architects of the Parthenon

Sober and dignified

The architectural character of the Romanesque architecture is.

Baroque

The architectural style used for the Paoay Church

Baroque

The architecture of the curved line is known as ___.

Fenestration

The arrangement and design of windows in a building

Etruscans

The atrium type of house originated with the ___.

Plinth

The base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests.

Rameses 1

The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty.

Worms Cathedral

The best example of a German Romanesque church with apses at both east and west

Machu Picchu

The best preserved Incan city structure

Parthenon

The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect building ever erected is the.

prytaneion

The building that serve as a senate house for the chief dignitaries of the city and as a palace where distinguished visitors and citizens might be entertained

Spur

The buttress which catches the thrusts of the main vaults where they are concentrated in the pockets above columned pillars

Pinnacle

The buttress which were placed on the top of the spur buttress to help by their weight to drive the oblique thrusts more steeply down to earth is called

Newel

The central shaft of a circular staircase. Also applied to the post in which the handrail is framed.

Keystone

The central stone of a semi-circular arch, sometimes sculptured.

Anthemion

The characteristic of Greek ornament.

Doge's Palace

The chief magistrate's buildings, in the former republic of Venice & Genoa.

Apse

The circular or multi-angular termination of a church sanctuary. A rounded projection of a building

Aljibe

The cistern storage of collected rainwater underneath the azotea of the bahay na bato.

Eridu, Uruk and Ur

The cities of Sumer? (3)

Intercolumniation

The clear space in between columns.

Frigidarium

The cold or unheated pool in the Thermae.

Frigidarium

The cold section of a Roman Bath.

Vespasian / Domitian

The colosseum in Rome also known as the "flavian amphitheater" was commenced by whom and completed by whom?

trachelion

The continuation of the fluted shaft in the Greek Doric column

Echinus

The convex projecting molding of eccentric curve supporting the abacus of a Doric capital.

Bouleuterion

The council house in Greece.

Ambulatory

The covered walk of an atrium.

Capital

The crowning member of a column.

Deinocrates

The designer of The temple of Artemis, Ephesus. Also called the Hellinistic temple.

Polycleitos

The designer of the Theatre of Epidauros, the most beautiful and best preserved Greek theatre.

Refectory

The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college.

Refectory

The dining hall of a monastery, convent or college

Iñigo Jones

The dominating personality who became an ardent disciple of the Italian renaissance

Apodyteria

The dressing room in the thermae

Apodyteria

The dressing room of the Thermae.

Sudatorium

The dry or sweating room in the Thermae.

Bilik

The emergency hideout found directly behind the neadboard of the Sultan's bed.

Entablature

The entire construction of a classical temple or the like, between the columns and the eaves usually composed of an architrave, frieze, and a cornice.

Soffit

The exposed undersurface of any overhead component of a building such as an arch, balcony, beam, cornice, lintel or vault. bottom surface: the underside of a structural component of a building, for example the underside of a roof overhang or the inner curve of an arch

Kaufman House

The falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright is also known as ___.

Andrea Palladio

The father of modern picture books of Architecture

Latin Cross

The final plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Carlo Maderna.

St. Sophia, Constantinople

The finest and remaining example of Byzantine architecture.

Treasury of Atreus

The finest of Greek Tombs, also known as the 'tomb of Agamemnon'.

Pantheon

The finest of all illustrations of Roman construction.

Greek Cross

The first plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Bramante.

Azotea

The flat, open terrace open to the toilet, bath, and kitchen areas and also used as a laundry and drying space and service area for the servants.

Acropolis

The fortified high area or citadel of an ancient Greek City.

Great Temple, Abu Simbel

The four-seated colossal statues of Rameses II is carved in the pylon of the ___.

Falig

The granary in traditional Bontoc House.

Cheops

The great pyramid at Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by.

Podium

The high platform on which temples were generally placed (in general, any elevate platform). A foundation wall: a low wall forming a foundation or base, for example for a colonnade

Pyramid of Khufu

The highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh

Transom

The horizontal divisions or crossbars of windows.

Statues

The iconoclastic movement during the Byzantine period forbade the use of ___.

Chinese architecture

The indigenous architecture of a vast country in eastern Asia whose civilization has continually evolved and survived longer than any other nation in the world.

Stelae

The inscription tablet in a Mastaba is called ___________.

Marcel Breuer

The ironic term "Maximum Simplicity" is attributed to _________?

Triglyph

The large element in the frieze.