Quiz 1

Question 1

Answer 1

Thomas Cole, The Architect’s Dream, oil on canvas, 1840. -moralized landscape -features great architecture in reverse chronological order

Question 2

Answer 2

• Gentleman ArchitectJohann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna, oil on canvas, 1786
• Gentleman Architect and renaissance man

Question 3

[student with sketchbook]

Answer 3

Architecture student with sketchbook at the Parthenon, Athens, 2008 -Architecture is experiential and causes people to pilgim and move

Question 4

dolmen

Answer 4

a prehistoric tomb made of large upright stones, capped with a horizontal stone, and
originally buried under an earth mound.
/ Dolmen Menga, Antequera, Andalusia, Spain, ca. 2500 BC / first of the permanent sturcutres to immortalize men / use of column and lintel

Question 5

henge

Answer 5

a circle of upright stones or posts./ stonehenge / engineering/ solar calendar /etc

Question 6

megalith

Answer 6

a large stone / carnac alignments/ solitary monument/ often related to fertility

Question 7

menhir

Answer 7

prehistoric monument in the form of a large, upright stone. / carnac alignments / similar to monolith

Question 8

palimpsest

Answer 8

a surface that is written or drawn upon, and then cleared and reused, often leaving trace
remnants of the previous work / Painted caves at Lascaux, Dordogne / leaves a legacy and precedent

Question 9

trabeation

Answer 9

construction using upright posts and horizontal lintels, not arches or vaults; also known
as “post-and-beam” or “post-and-lintel” construction. / prehistoric huts OR dolmens/ shows the advancement of permanent structures

Question 10

wattle and daub

Answer 10

building materials used for making walls, consisting of “wattle” or thin branches
weaved between upright stakes, and reinforced by applying “daub” or a plaster-like substance over the wattle structure. / prehistoric hut/ shows advancement in materiality

Question 11

lithos

Answer 11

Greek for “stone” / used in the prehistoric division of ages

Question 12

Name the three prehistoric eras in order:

Answer 12

• Paleolithic Period – ca. 40000-10000 BC
• Mesolithic Period – ca. 10000-8000 BC
• Neolithic Period – ca. 8000-3500 BC

Question 13

Answer 13

Reconstruction drawing, of a prehistoric hut, Terra Amata, near Nice, France, ca. 400,000 BC / Wattle and Daub/ shows materiality and advancement in semi-permanent structures

Question 14

Answer 14

Painted caves at Lascaux, Dordogne, France, ca. 15000-13000 BC / shows palimpsest/ returning to a dwelling/ bulls, fertility, etc

Question 15

Answer 15

Carnac alignments, Brittany, France, ca. 4250-3750 BC / shows megalith and menhir/ monument, henge, legacy, permanence

Question 16

Answer 16

Dolmen Menga, Antequera, Andalusia, Spain, ca. 2500 BC / dolmen/ shows permanence, experimentation in trabeation and monumental structures

Question 17

Answer 17

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, ca. 2900-1400 BC / megaliths, henge/ intent of design, legacy, permanence

Question 18

Answer 18

Çatal Hüyük, Konya Plain, Anatolia, Turkey, ca. 6500-5700 BC / community design/ permanence

Question 19

Answer 19

White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk (Warka, Iraq), ca. 3500-3000 BC/ battered or canted base/ centre of town/ mediated between sky and earth and dvine vs. mortal