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| The ancient craft of making objects from clay |
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| Porous clay such as terra cotta |
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| Clay that become impermeable when fired at high tempertures. |
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| A very smooth-textured clay translucent when fired, and with an extremely smooth, glossy surface. |
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| A simple means of using the hands to shape the cermic vessel from a lump of clay. |
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| The process of building a form of clay by attacking flat shapes to each other. |
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| A method of building a form of clay by rolling it into long ropes which are coiled in a spiraling pattern to raise sides of the piece. |
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| A method of creating forms of clay by centering a mass of clay on a clay and circular clab and then pulling the sides up from it with the hands as this wheel is turned. |
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| Painted with material that turns glassy when heated |
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| Baked in a Lon or open fire |
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| The capacity for being shaped by physical pressure, such as hammering. |
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| The ability to be drawn out into wire. |
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| A colored glassy coating heatfused to metal |
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| Heated to make it more malleable |
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| Iron that is worked in a heated state with hand tools |
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| Hammering punches against a sheet of metal from the back to create a low-relief pattern |
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| Hammering a flat sheet over a stake to raise the sides and work them inward. |
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| Woody hemispherical knobs that grow on the trunks of certain trees. |
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| Thin overlays of fine woods placed over other woods. |
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| Prized for its metal oxide brillance and its "importance" such as bubble warps. |
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| Chemical colorants are heated with the base glass in a kiln until they fuse. |
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| Incorporates soda ash for opacity. |
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| A heavy, hand woven textile with pictures woven into the surface of the fabric, usually used in wall hanging. |
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| Making blankets or other covers of two layers of fabric stitched together with padding in between, in which both the pieces of fabric and the pattern of stiching offer vechicles for aesthetic creativity. |
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| The study of the mechanics and proportions of the human body, with the aim of dsighning products with which the body can interact efficiently and comfortably. |
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| A circular building or room especially one with a dome. |
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| A cover colonnade at the end of a building in Classical architecture. |
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| The science of planning the properties of sound and architecture. |
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| I architecture the amount of downward pressure a stuctural material can withstand without breaking. |
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| Bearing Wall Construction |
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| A support system in which the weight of ceiling and roof is borne by the entirety of the walls. |
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| A stepped pyramid with a temple on top. |
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| An architectural construction system in which upright members support horizontal members or lintels. |
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| In classical Greek architecture, the flat base on which a series of columns rest. |
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| The head of a column that bears the weight of the structure above. |
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| The horizontal member atop a column, supporting what lies above. |
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| In classical architecture, the triangular area at the front of a building; also a similarly-shaped area used decortively over a window, door, or portico. |
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| In classical Greek architecture, the simplest order, with a heavy, fluted column, a dish-shaped capital, and no base. |
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| The Classic Greek architecture, an order characterized by fluted columns topped by scroll-like spirals. |
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| In Classical Greek architecture, the lightest and most ornate order, with the appearnce of outwar-curling acanthus leves on the capital. |
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| A craving or pointed structural device supporting an opening, doorway, or bridge. |
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| The wedge-shaped stones in an arch. |
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| The central wedge-shape piece of masonry in an arch, added last to lock the structure in place. |
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| A ceiling in the form of an unbroken tunnel. |
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| In architecture, two intersecting, identical barrel vaults. |
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| An arch formed by the intersecion of two curves of greater radius than that of the opening; an innovation introduced in Gothic architecture. |
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| In architecture, a masonry ceiling in which arched diagonal ribs form a framework that is filled with lighter stone. |
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| A buttress in the form of strut or segmented arch that transfers thrust to an outer support. |
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| A hemispherical vault over a room or building. |
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| In church architecture, the central hall. |
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| Balloon Frame Construction |
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| Framing for a building in which relatively small pieces of wood are nailed together rather than heavy timbers connected by joinery. |
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| A building system in which spaced horizontal and verical members are interlocked to form a solid skeleton to which an outer skin is added. |
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| International Modern Style |
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| An architectural style, originating in Europe after World War I, characterized by rectangular forms, white walls, large windows, flat roors, and the absene of ornament. |
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| A structural framework of small interlocking polygons forming a dome. |
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| Concrete into which metal mesh or rods have been embedded so that the two interactto strengthen the structure. |
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| A projection from a building or scupture that is supported, anchored, or balacned at only one end. |
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| A measure of the ability of a material to be stretched without breaking. |
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| A building system developed from perconstructed and perhaps perassembled parts. |
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| An architectural movement of the 1970s and 80s, countering the glass boxes of the International Style with more histroically eclectic forms. |
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| Referring to contemporary architecture which deliberately gives the impression of chaos and instability rather than order and stability. |
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