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| Prehistoric period in human history from 2.6 million years to 10,000 B.C.E. |
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| construction carrying only tension, no compression or bending |
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| top down written/graphic descriptions of architectural elements for a site/building. |
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| cut-through view; shows organization and interior |
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| vertical plane cut through the object, viewing the object from the side |
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| view of a building seen from one side |
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| opposite of tensile frame, trabeated (2 piers + 1 lintel) is an example |
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| shows whole context of building/site; specific time of plan |
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| approximate representation on a flat surface of an image, perceived by ones eye |
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| It is an axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angles between any two of them are 120 degrees. |
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| "Axonometric" means "to measure along axes". |
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| most prominent Greeks statement, general of Athens |
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| room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances |
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| bottom of the theater, the simple circular space |
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| where props/costumes were held, behind the proscenium and orchestra |
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| any monumental gateway that serves as an entrance, also an actual site in Acropolis in Athens |
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| piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary,holy grove or holy precinct: |
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| central spot in ancient Greek city-states, stands for gathering place/assembly |
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| covered walkway or porticos, usually for public use |
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| a porch leading to the entrance of a building with a roof over a walkway |
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| building in which the city council met in ancient Greece |
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| area of theater surrounding the stage opening |
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| external to the walls of the main building proper |
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| sculpted female figure taking place of a column |
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| open-air venue used for entertainment |
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| art of creating iamges with small pieces of colored glass, stone, etc |
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| bulge in columns, formally the application of a convex curve to a surface |
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| Major tribe that created the second Greek architecture style (Ionic, Temple of Artemis). |
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| Major tribe credited for the 1st Greek architecture style (Doric). |
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| archaeologist famous for unearthing the Palace of Minos at Knossos (Crete) |
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| famous for excavating Hisarlik, known to be the site of Troy |
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| ancient people established around 1600 BC, occupied city of Hattusas |
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| Refers to the city of Mycenae in south Greece. |
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| Greek civilization on the island of Crete. Rediscovered by Evans. |
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| great hall of Grecian palace complexes. Rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch, and more or less central, open hearth surrounded by 4 columns. |
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| city in Greek, but typically refers to Greek city-states |
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| Elaborate structure of long stairways with repeated turns |
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| refers to the large corbelled vault in Treasury of Atreus |
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| circular temples in Greek architecture, (tholos tomb = beehive tomb too) |
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| entrance passage to a building |
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| finely dressed (cut, worked) masonry |
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| : rough, unhewn building stone set in mortar |
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| noble floor/level, the principal floor of a large house/building |
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| means fresh, due to how they would freshly paint the walls in the Palace of Minos colorfully (relates to polychromy) |
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| Tomb found in KV55 (Valley of the Kings). Was a pharaoh. Queen was Nefertiti. |
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| English archaeologist that discovered King Tut. |
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| hall that has a roof supported by columns |
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| tall, 4-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at top |
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| columned porch or open colonnade in a building surrounding a court that may contain a garden |
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| Greek term for monumental gateway of an Egyptian temple. Consists of two tapering towers, each surmounted by a cornice, joined by a less elevated section in between them. |
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| bas = low, low relief. Relief is the sculptural technique to give the impression the material has been raised above the background plane |
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| When the roofline sticks out as it reaches the top |
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| major characteristic of Egyptian architecture, 90 degree angles |
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| a structural element that transmit through compression the weight of the structure above. Fluted refers to the grooves vertically on a column |
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| Egyptian tomb in form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure, deep burial chamber inside. |
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| A long sequence of columns joined in their entablature. |
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| any high windows above eye level |
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| structure in the geometric pyramid shape |
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| uses flat platforms receding from ground up |
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| at the top of the pyramid, serves as a cover |
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| found in Zoser, wall pierced by an arch constructed transversely across a church aisle (??? found defn online). |
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| top of columns decorated to look like lotus flowers |
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| Egyptian tomb structure that served as a chamber for the statue of a corpse. |
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| a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, some kind of fibrous or organic material (straw) and earth. |
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| a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which the builders shape into bricks (using frames) and dry in the sun. similar to cob/mudbrick |
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| lattice of panels filled with material like wattle and daub. |
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| pise/pise de terre/rammed earth: |
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| a technique for building walls using natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime or gravel. |
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| a decorative recess set into a wall for the purpose of displaying a statue, vase, font, or other object. |
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| massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels. |
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| Composite building material used for making walls. A woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle, which is then daubed in a sticky material from soil, clay, sand, animal dung, and straw. |
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| is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb which has three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table) above. |
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| form of megalithic tomb where no size diff. b/w burial chamber itself and entrance passage |
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| load-bearing building component |
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| simple construction using 2 columns/piers and a lintel across them held up |
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| large (megalithic) upright standing stone |
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| used to join stones in Neolithic era (Stonehenge). Mortise (hole)/Tenon (protrusion). |
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| A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Also called a tumulus. |
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| arch-like construction using corbeling to span a space or void in a structure |
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| consists of a narrow passage made of large stones and one or more burial chambers covered in earth/stone |
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| upright structure (stone in this context), equivalent to a column |
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| expressing architectural ideas through an integrated architectural/structural system |
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| stonework in Mycenaean arch. Rough stones put together w/ minimal clearance between adjacent stones |
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| similar to trabeated. a structure consisting of two large vertical stones (posts) supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top (lintel). |
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| Prehistoric period in human history from 2.6 million years to 10,000 B.C.E. |
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| AKA New Stone age. Starts from ~10,000 B.C.E. to around 4500-2000 B.C.E. |
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| construction carrying only tension, no compression or bending |
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| top down written/graphic descriptions of architectural elements for a site/building. |
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| cut-through view; shows organization and interior |
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| vertical plane cut through the object, viewing the object from the side |
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| view of a building seen from one side |
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| opposite of tensile frame, trabeated (2 piers + 1 lintel) is an example |
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| shows whole context of building/site; specific time of plan |
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| approximate representation on a flat surface of an image, perceived by one’s eye |
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| It is an axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angles between any two of them are 120 degrees. |
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| "Axonometric" means "to measure along axes". |
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