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Parthenon
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-5th Century B.C.
-Doric and peripteral Temple of Ancient Greece -octostyle - 8 columns on one side -it was representational for the time -located on the Acropolis of Greece -it was purposely distorted to look perfectly symmetrical from a distance |
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cella
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main room of an ancient Greek temple
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opisthodomos
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treasury room
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styllobate
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base of a column
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shaft
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the main pole shape of the column
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capitol
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the structural point where the shaft meets the horizontal top of a building
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base
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the bottom of the column
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flute
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the internal curve or ridges on the shaft of a column
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entablature
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-what a column holds up
-architrabe, frieze, cornise |
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architrabe
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the lower, blank level of the entablature
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frieze
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the area with sculptural designs on top of the architrabe in the entablature
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cornise
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the hanging level above the frieze
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pediment
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the triangular, decorative top of a building
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engaged columns
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not freestanding columns, built either 1/2 or 1/4 of the way into the wall
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Agora, Athens
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-Greek urban planning site
-had a public space for political, commercial, social, and religious activities |
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forum
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Roman market
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podium temples
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type of temples made by the Romans which was a Greek temple on top of a podium
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groin vault
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two intersecting barrel vaults as the ceiling
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arcade
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when you have more than two arches in a row
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barrel vault
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a deep vaulted ceiling, much like a half circle
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nave
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big open space in the middle of a Basillica where the pews are
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clerestory
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windows high up on the wall in churches used to let in light
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Stoa of Attalus, Athens
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-a Greek marketplace with shops, offices, and places for observing Panathenaic Games
-Built in 140 B.C. -has a colonnade =row of columns |
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Miletus
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-a great example of Greek urban planning
-made with rectangular grids - streets at right angles -made around 479 b.c. |
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Temple of Portunus, Rome
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-built in the 2nd Century B.C.
-a Roman podium temple -in the Ionic Order |
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Forum of Augustus, Rome
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-Dedicated in 2 B.C.
-memorial to the Emperor Augustus -corinthian columns |
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Forum and Markets of Trajan, Rome
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-dedicated in 112 A.D.
-covered public space -memorial to Emperor Trajan with a column of him in the middle |
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Baths of Caracalla, Rome
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-made around 217 A.D.
-public bathing facility and cultural center |
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Colosseum, Rome
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-Built in 80 A.D. by Emperor Flavian
-arena for a variety of games seating 50,000 spectators -made entirely on the principle of the arch -has engaged Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns on the outside -elliptically shaped |
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Amphitheatre of Pompei, Rome
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-much like the Colosseum only much smaller with poor circulation of spectators
-built in 59 A.D. |
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Pantheon, Rome
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-Built in 125 A.D.
-podium temple with a huge dome with a circular hole on the top of it |
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Haggia Sophia, Constantinople
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-Built in 537 A.D.
-has a dome on pendentives which -Christian Church of Constantine -became a model of the Ottomon mosques |
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St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
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-Built in 360 A.D.
-Christian cemetery church made by Constantine -martyrium of St. Peter -became the floor plan for the Christian Church -5 aisles long |
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Santa Sabina, Rome
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-Built in 432 A.D.
-Christian Church with a quarter dome and columns supporthing an arcade |
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Santiago de Compostella, Spain
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-built in 1124 A.D.
-Romanesque architecture - transept church |
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Reims Cathedral, France
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-built in 1211 A.D.
-Gothic cathedral with an elaborate three door entry -had pointed ceiling vaults -has a triforium |
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triforium
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passageway of a church cut into the wal so people can walk the whole level
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tracery
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name of the stone set in compression that decorates the windows in an arch
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Great Stupa at Sanchi, India
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-built in 250 B.C.
-a Buddhist commemorative structure built over a relic of Buddha -had beautiful walkways around it for people to walk and pray |
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Kandariha, India
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-built in 1050
-royal city of the Chandella dynasty |
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Pagodo of the Songyue temple, China
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-built in 523 A.D.
-12 sided parabolic cylinder used as a Buddhist shrine |
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Ho-o-do, Japan
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-built in 1053
-Byodoin Temple -had a statue of the Buddha inside each temple -symmetricle |
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Egret's Castle, Japan
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-built in 1609
-very defended and highly elevated castle |
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Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
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-built in 691
-a commemorative building where Muhammed was lifted to Heaven -octagonal and very ornamented |
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Great Mosque, Damascus
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-built in 715
-Congregational mosque for Muslim worship |
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Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent, Istanbul
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-built in 1557
-looks just like Haggia Sophia but made by Sinan -congregational mosque combined with cemetery, schools, hospital, hotels, an shops |
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Macchu Picchu, Peru
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-15th Century
-Incan settlement in the Andes |
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Teotihuacan, Mexico
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-200-1000
-Pre Aztec Citadel -pyramids of the sun and moon |
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Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
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-950-1100
-ceremonial center of Ancenstral Puebloans - Pueblo Bonito -had kivas |
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kivas
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originally covered circles used as a ceremonial center or club
-used crib construction |