History of Architecture Flashcards
In Egyptian architecture, the tomb of the pharaohs is the.
Pyramid
The great pyramid at Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by?
Cheops
The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty.
Rameses 1
The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her domains had ample supply of was ________.
Marble
Greek architecture was essentially.
Columnar trabeated
Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the architect Mnesicles is the _________.
Propylaea
The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most nearly perfect building ever erected is the ________.
Parthenon
With the use of concrete made possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, the Romans achieved huge interiors with the ________.
Arch and vault
The outstanding group of Romanesque is found in ___.
Pisa
The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college.
Refectory
A Muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for prostration.
Masjid
In Mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun-dried bricks.
Ziggurat
Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons.
Tumuli
Senate house for chief dignitaries in Greek architecture
Prytaneion
What architectural term is termed to be free from any historical style?
Art Noveau
Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon of a battlement.
Embrasures
Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
Senusret I
The highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh
Pyramid of Khufu
Caryatid porch is from what architecture?
Greek
A hall built in Roman Empire for the administration of justice.
Basilica
A compound bracket or capital in Japanese architecture.
Masu-gumi
A Filipino architect whose philosophy is ‘the structure must be well oriented’.
Caesar Homer Concio
Major contribution of the Renaissance Architecture.
Baroque for of Ornamentation
King Zoser’s architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty.
Imhotep