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Enfalade

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series of rooms with doorways aligned eg. Vaux-le-Vicomte

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Appartement

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Suite of rooms in French residence eg. Vaux-le-Vicomte

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Hôtel

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townhouse

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Entwurff einer historischen Architectur

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A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture, first architecture history book by Fisher von Erlach (1721)

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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Total work of art

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Mansart/Mansard Roof

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Has sloping sides, each gets steeper halfway down

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Salon

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type of oval room, le Vau imported from Italy

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Rococo

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Mainly an interior style symbolic by light, pastels, elites are pictured, not serious Eg. Salon de la princess: paintings of love, mythology

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Trajan’s column

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Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy
minerte like

eg. Karlskirche, vienna

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Imperial plan

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double return stairway. modeled after Romans. Place to hang as much as access. Residence Klurzburg

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Spire/ Steeple

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Very popular in England. Tall tower in building topped with a spire. Often a landmark.

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Anglo-Palladianism

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architectural movement in England in reaction to Baroque style. rediscovery of Palladio by Indigo Jones

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Palladio’s four books of architecture

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book by Palladio describing tenents of architecture. Based on Vitruvius.

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Feng Shui

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“wind & water” form of geomancy or design philosophy based on harmony in nature. Chinese idea- sensitive to the site

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Pagoda

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form of stupa found in Japan and China comprised of multi-stories.

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Ying zao Fashi

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building manual written in 1103 by Li Jie.

Became architecture standard in China

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torii

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ceremonial entry gate to shrine. Most often shinto shrines

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tatami

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dimensional mats. Japanese architecture. Helped to define a grid within the space

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Japanese Gardens - 2 types

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  1. Zen sand gardens (minimalistic) - meant to be viewed from fixed point eg. Ryogn- ji temple
  2. Landscape gardens (representation of the world in miniature) -katsura palace
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Domed Mosque vs. Hypostyle Mosque

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Hypostyle- lots of columns

Domed- lots of open space, easy to expand

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Pendentives

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allows for circular dome in a square room

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Cami/Jami: Friday

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Jami Masjid = congregational Friday mosque

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Quibla wall

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wall that faces Mecca. Muslims pray at this wall

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*Mihrab

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Niche in quibla wall

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Minbar
Pulpit or seat installed to the right of the mihrab in mosques
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Iwan/Eyvan
a vaulted or domed recess open on one side of courtyard in mosque
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Madresa/Madrasa
College for students of religion or religious law
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Pietra Dura
stone inlay using cut and fitted, highly polished colored stones to create images eg Taj mahl facade
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Jali
a perforated stone or latticed screen often seen in Islamic architecture
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Peacock arches
arches w/ scallops
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Diwan-I-am
Public audience hall of a Indian palace
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Diwan-i-khas
Private audience hall of an indian palace
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Sinan the Great/a.k.a. Koça
was the chief Ottoman architect for Suleiman the Magnificent. Helped to design the Taj Mahl 1491- 1588
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Daga
finishing layer of clay on buildings
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Adobe
sun-dried clay
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Saltbox
originated in New England, example of American colonial architecture, building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back generally a wooden frame house. one story in the back and two stories in the front.
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Quoins
an angle at the outside corner of a building. You can call the corner itself a quoin, or use the word for the special stones or bricks that reinforce corners of brick or stone buildings
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Palladian Window
a large window consisting of a central arched section flanked by two narrow rectangular sections.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte, 1660, south east of Paris, France Architects: Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Notre
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East Façade Louvre, built design, 1667, Paris Architects: Le Vau, Le Brun & Claude Perrault
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Palais de Versailles, Versailles, 1661 Architects: Le Vau & Charles Le Brun; Gardens, André le Nôtre
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Galérie des Glaces/Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 1680 Architect: Jules Hardouin-Mansart
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Karlskirche, Vienna,1716-1733 Architect: Fischer von Erlach
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Church of the Vierzehnheiligen, Germany, 1743 Architect: Neumann
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Salon de la Princesse, 1737-40 Architect: Boffrand Hôtel de Soubise, 1704-9 Architect: Delamair
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San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona (1783-97)
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St. Paul’s Cathedral, London 1663-1710 Architect: Christopher Wren
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St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1721-1726 Architect: James Gibbs
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Templo Mayor/Temple of Huitzilopochtli & Tlaloc, Mexico City (1325-1521), Tenochtitlan/Mexico City
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Sun Temple, Machu Picchu, Peru, 12th-15th C)
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Pavilion/ Hall of Supreme Harmony, Forbidden City, Peking/Beijing, early 15th C
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Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, Temple of Heaven, Peking/Beijing (c. 1420)
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Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan (c. 1480)
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Shokin-tei/Pavilion of the Pine Lute, 1660 Part of Katsura Palace
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Katsura Palace, Kyoto, Japan (1616-1660, Architect: Kobori Enshu
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Diwan-I-Khas (private audience hall), Palace, Fatehpur Sikri (b. 1571, Commissioned by: Akbar
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Taj Mahal, Agra (c.1632-1654) Architect: Ustad Isa
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Diwan-i-am, 1628, Red Fort, Agra Commissioned by Shah Jahan (emperor)
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Suleimaniye Cami (Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent), Istanbul, Turkey, 1550-57 Architect: Sinan
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Church of St George, Lalibela, Ethiopia, c.13thC
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Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia) 1300-1525
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Mosque of Djénné, Mali 1st mosque c.13thC 2nd mosque comp. 1835 3rd mosque 1906-07
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Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM (1610-14) Spanish
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Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham, MA, 1681
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St. Luke's/Old Brick Church, Isle of Wight County, VA (1632, 1657)
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Capitol, Williamsburg, VA (1701-05)
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Old North Church/Christ Church, Boston, MA, 1723, Architect: William Price
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Drayton Hall, Charleston, SC (1738-42) First Anglo-Palladian house in America

Architecture History 232 (3 decks)

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