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Hellinistic Period
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Period begins after parthenon until the battle of Actium (where Octavian beats Marc Anthony)
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Alenxander the Great
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City Planner
empire stretched from greece thorugh middle east and egypt to india |
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Hippodamus
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alexanders city planner. had idea for grid plan. cities were able to be built quickly
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temple of Apollo
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frieze tells mythical story of district
architect: Itkenos palaster: columns attached to walls columns are Doric outside, Ionic inside, and at the end of hallway it is corinthian |
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Vergina
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Underground temple
built for alexander the greats farther inhumation |
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Neriad
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tribute to courage
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Persepolis
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not typical hellenistic archtiecture
many wood and stone pillars |
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pergamon (city)
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founder: attalus
built bank first, temple of Zeus, theatre near temple, national sacrificial altar |
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Temple of Apollo of Didyama (Miletus, Turkey)
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Cresmagraphion: where priest would speak
open to sky ganz effect many columsn (passing through birth canal and born into heaven) |
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Halicarnassus (Bodrum, turkey)
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built by mossolus's wife after his death
building taken down by crusaders who used it to build a castle |
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story of rome
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Romulus, Remus
raised by wolf |
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etruscans
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highly developed culture
powerful navy tuscan order: simple, direct, pragmatic |
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Pompei
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eruption of mount vesuvius killed nearly everyone, ash preserved city well
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Rome- patricians (upper class)
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wore white togas
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Via Apia
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romes first highway, runs down coast. 10ft deep and layered
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claudius
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family murdered but him. marries a wife that is ambitious. wife gets claudius to name her son heir (nero)
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Augustus
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symmetrical
used insulae: thin bricks romans used instead of stone so they could fire them faster |
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fortuna primi
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dedicated to the goddess of fortune
arches rather than tribiation pozzoli: substance that, when mixed with water becomes hard like concrete |
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Golden Doumus Auria (rome)
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Neros home
burned down city for it after he moved in, senate declared him enemy of state |
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Colliseum
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Columsn are in respective order, doric, ionic, corinthian, tuscan. tuscan at top to show rome was dominating at that time
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Aropoass
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used for sacrfice
frieze represents courage |
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Hadrian villa
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Emporer Hadrian house for philosophical discussion/gateways
bathhouse: caldarium (hot), tepidarium (warm) frigidarium (cold) |
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Pantheon
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Pan (all) theon (gods)
designed by hadrian but finished by Agrippa niches: cutouts in wall for statues of major god(desses) apse: bigger niche for Hadrian |
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Teatro Di Marcello
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used to be theatre
housing today arches allowed theatre to be built on flat land scenae: corridor behind stage for actors to prepare |
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Pont du gard
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Most famous aquaduct
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trier (germany)
basilica apse |
first used as courthouse, converted to church when christianity gained popularity
basilica: main chamber where legal cases were judged apse: far end for judge |
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maison carre (Nimes, france)
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one of the best temples which still stands
massive human scale |
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temple of venus (baalbek)
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broke away from greek model
make ppl fear empire |
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ottoman architecture
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istabul good locatino because between two seas
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constantinople cit walls
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had a wall that was alyered in three parts. an invasion would have to go through three to penetrate the city
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Mecca (City)
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abraham comes from Hawan through middle east as nomads and set up camp at sire of Makkh (mecca???)
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Ka'ba
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central black cube which houses holy artifact
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Paggar
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egyptian servant of Abraham
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Tawa
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Circular path arounf Kaba
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Ali Quapu
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shah seat for polo matches and other main courtyard activites
located by city gate |
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Sharia Law
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law dictated by Qua'ran
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Hajaz
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High desert area
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Jedah (city)
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port city
5 pollars of islam, one is prayer 5 times a day. another is pilgrimage to mecca |
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Mahallat
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old city within area
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Muezzin
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calls from a minaret for prayer
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Mosque of Damascus
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Built on base of Temple of Jupiter
Iwan=covered alcove wodo=washing ritual required before prayer |
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temple of rock (jerusalem)
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where abraham was asked to sacrifice his son
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kutfallah mosque
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doesnt have linearity of previous mosques
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alhambra (spain)
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house
4 separated houses for four wives courtyard of lions |
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Japan
archipelago |
string of volcanic islands
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Ainu
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original people, native to Japan
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capitals
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Nara in south = kyoto= edo = tokyo
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Jomon House
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buried their houses
built lower into ground to keep warm in winter |
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minka house
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found by rice growing area
rice straw for thatch roof |
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hoyugi (nara)
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first house then temple
oldest wooden building in the world |
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pagoda:
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original commemoration of the burial place of a body part of Buddah, after buddah died, king Ashoka tried to make amends for being violent and became buddhist and codified faith
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Stupa
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dome shaped structure with antennae-like rod with several discs on it, symbol of buddhist cosmology of heavens and universe
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Honiki
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Japanese cypress, barkless, gray-green color which eventually turns brown. used to make columns
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Todai (Nara)
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in order to distance religion from state, capital is moved from Nara to Kyoto
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Byodo In
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called pheonix temple because its the source for faith called pure-land buddhism, which includes idea of heaven
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Tyka reform
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idea to copy everything about China to give themselves an air of authority
on japanese coin |
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Xian, city (originally Chang'an)
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standardized city based on social structure
model for many cities in Asia |
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Ryonaji
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most famous Japanese zen garden
meditation series of stones mystical sit inside temple, no matter where you are, you can never see all the rocks. wall acts as datum |
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pagoda:
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original commemoration of the burial place of a body part of Buddah, after buddah died, king Ashoka tried to make amends for being violent and became buddhist and codified faith
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Stupa
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dome shaped structure with antennae-like rod with several discs on it, symbol of buddhist cosmology of heavens and universe
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Honiki
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Japanese cypress, barkless, gray-green color which eventually turns brown. used to make columns
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Todai (Nara)
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in order to distance religion from state, capital is moved from Nara to Kyoto
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Byodo In
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called pheonix temple because its the source for faith called pure-land buddhism, which includes idea of heaven
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Tyka reform
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idea to copy everything about China to give themselves an air of authority
on japanese coin |
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Xian, city (originally Chang'an)
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standardized city based on social structure
model for many cities in Asia |
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Ryonaji
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most famous Japanese zen garden
meditation series of stones mystical sit inside temple, no matter where you are, you can never see all the rocks. wall acts as datum |
