Art Chapter 13 Architecture

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What type of skeleton-and-skin construction

Steel-frame

type of truss system

Stepped truss

What is the significance of the isolation of the Taj Mahal's dome

ornamental

What are the two main components of CAD/CAM?

Digital technology and computer-driven technology

What type of dome?

Geodesic

Reins Cathedral is a characteristic example of what style of architecture?

Gothic

What elements are associated with Romanesque style?

Groin vaults, Barrel vaults

the flowing innovations made balloon-frame construction

Improved milking lumber techniques, Mass-produced nails

Image of a classic Greek capital demonstrates the characteristics of the________architectural order

Ionic

What art the trademark buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture oeuvre?

Prairie houses

Our sense of community is strengthened by having access to what area?

Public spaces

What does the keystones do?

Supports the downward and outward thrust of the rounded arch

What are fabric structures?

Tensile structures

Why in the early period of Zaha Hadis' career was she sometimes called "paper architect"?

The buildings she designed had not been constructed, they existed only on paper

coffering

The decorative ornament on the ceiling of a dome, which also serves to lessen the weight

What technological advancement of the 1980s influenced digital and manufacturing?

The personal computer

To what is green architecture largely a response?

The unsustainable cost of industrialization

triangle

The_______is the essential geometric form in the construction and support of a geodesic dome

International

Visible structure of a building is characteristic of the______style of architecture

What are two examples of nomadic dwellings involving fabric architecture?

Yurts and tents

The weight of a suspension bridge is primarily supoorted

a series of steel cables

Not an advantage of balloon-frame construction

can be built to conceivably infinite heights

Steel-frame

construction was developed to allow for the fabrication of tall buildings not possible using balloon-frame techniques

Concrete is composed of

gravel, water, cement

Haggis Siphia

incorporates placing an immense dome on top of a massive square base

Reinforced-concrete construction is most similar to the________structural system

shell

The creation of such showpiece as the Crystal Palace and the Eiffel Tower were made possible by

the mass production of iron and steel


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