Art Appreciation Unit 2 Exam Review- Quiz 13
PORTICO
Identify the specified parts of the Pantheon. #1?
Indian architects often used ____________, a technique to create a dome in which a course of stones extends slightly beyond the one below.
Corbelling
The __________, designed by Joseph Paxton, paved the way for 20th-century architecture.
Crystal Palace
Built for the World's Fair in 1889, the ________ was an early experiment in iron construction.
Eiffel Tower
Showing that metal can provide a solid framework for a very large structure, the _________ was constructed for the Paris World's Fair of 1889.
Eiffel Tower
The Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles are known as the:
Greek orders
A space that uses post-and-lintel construction and features a forest of columns is called a(n) __________.
Hypostyle hall
When a large hall is built using post-and-lintel construction methods, the resulting "virtual forest of columns" is called a:
Hypostyle hall
DORIC
Identify the Greek orders by labeling the columns according to style. 1rst column?
IONIC
Identify the Greek orders by labeling the columns according to style. 2nd column?
CORINTHIAN
Identify the Greek orders by labeling the columns according to style. 3rd column?
Samuel Mockbee
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Architecture is for everybody.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Architecture that blends with its environment.
Samuel Mockbee
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Bryant House
Frank Lloyd Wright
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Fallingwater
Zaha Hadid
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
Zaha Hadid
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Raw, vital, and earth architecture.
Samuel Mockbee
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: Rural Studio
Zaha Hadid
Identify the characteristics and works associated with each of the following designers: The Urban Carpet
DOME
Identify the specified parts of the Great Stupa. #1?
LINTEL
Identify the specified parts of the Great Stupa. #2?
DRUM
Identify the specified parts of the Great Stupa. #3?
POST
Identify the specified parts of the Great Stupa. #4?
PEDIMENT
Identify the specified parts of the Greek temple. #1?
ENTABLATURE
Identify the specified parts of the Greek temple. #2?
CAPITAL
Identify the specified parts of the Greek temple. #3?
OCULUS
Identify the specified parts of the Pantheon. #2?
STEPPED BUTTRESS
Identify the specified parts of the Pantheon. #3?
The following is NOT true about art museum architecture. -Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao design required an aerospace-design computer program. -Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is clad in titanium. -John Russell Pope's neoclassical National Gallery harmonizes with the other buildings on the Washington, D.C., mall. -John Russell Pope's National Gallery was initially praised for its innovative style. -Zaha Hadid's Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art has two highly contrasting façades.
John Russell Pope's National Gallery was initially praised for its innovative style.
The topmost stone in an archway is the ___________.
Keystone
Stacking and piling is another term for:
Load-bearing construction
Maya Lin
Match the descriptions to the leading architects of the Green movement: The Langston Hughes Library used the "skin" of a barn, reduced the need for artificial lighting, and used a pond as a natural heat exchanger.
Shigeru Ban
Match the descriptions to the leading architects of the Green movement: The Centre Pompidou-Metz uses digital mapping to create the curving geography of its roof.
Renzo Piano
Match the descriptions to the leading architects of the Green movement: The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center responds to the local landscape, climate, and Kanak culture and building traditions.
Michelle Kaufman
Match the descriptions to the leading architects of the Green movement: The prefabricated Glidehouse uses sliding glass doors for cooling and clerestory windows to provide light.
Balloon-frame construction depended on two innovations: improved methods for milling lumber and mass-produced _______.
Nails
Built almost 2000 years ago, the ________ is an enduring testament to the Roman use of the arch.
Pont du Gard at Nimes
________ is most famous for his design of the geodesic dome.
R. Buckminster Fuller
ROMANESQUE
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Barrel vault hides the roof structure.
NEOCLASSICAL
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Based on the vocabulary of ancient Greek and Roman structures.
INTERNATIONAL
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Clean lines.
GOTHIC
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Flying buttresses.
INTERNATIONAL
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Geometric (usually rectilinear) form.
ROMANESQUE
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Groin vaults.
GOTHIC
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Pointed arch.
GREEN
Recognize characteristics of particular architectural styles. Sustainable development.
The invention of ________, an extremely sturdy metal, allowed the creation of very high buildings, such as skyscrapers.
Steel
The Golden Gate Bridge illustrates the technique of ___________, in which the weight of the bridge is held by steel cables.
Suspension
The amount of stretching stress a material can withstand before it bends or breaks is known as its ____________.
Tensile strength
Using a steel framework with masonry sheathing, the ________, designed by Louis Sullivan, is thought by many to be the first genuinely modern building.
Wainwright Building
A flying buttress is an arched exterior support system found on:
a Gothic cathedral
The Byodo-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is an elegant example of:
post-and-lintel architecture
The Great Friday Mosque in Mali is made of ________, or sun-dried brick.
Adobe
Chinese and Japanese architects used ___________ to distribute the heavy weight of a roof onto slender wooden columns.
Bracket sets
JAPANESE
Classify each building according to its culture. Byodo-in-Temple
EUROPEAN
Classify each building according to its culture. Reims Cathedral
AFRICAN
Classify each building according to its culture. The Great Friday Mosque
INDIAN
Classify each building according to its culture. The Taj Mahal