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