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39 Cards in this Set
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What is the Ecclessiological Society?
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It was a architectural society founded in 1839 by undergraduates at Cambridge University to promote "the study of Gothic Architecture, and of Ecclesiastical Antiques. Also known as the Cambridge Camden Society.
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What was the Industrial Revolution?
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Turning point in history when the economy changed from labor/animal based to machine-based manufacturing. (textiles, iron-making, and use of coal)
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What is pig iron?
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By product of iron used in making steel.
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What is cast iron?
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It is a brittle iron used in steam engines, textile mills, and as columns for tall buildings.
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What is wrought iron?
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Before steel making was available, wrought iron was the most common form of iron that could be shaped.
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What is a compression?
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A compression member is a general class of structural elements of which a column is the most common specific example.
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What is tension?
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tension is the magnitude of the pulling force exerted by a string, cable, chain, or similar object on another object.
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What is ferrovitreous?
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Use of steel framing with glass panes. (Crystal Palace)
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What is an arcade?
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An arcade is a succession of arches, each counterthrusting the next, supported by columns or piers or a covered walk enclosed by a line of such arches on one or both sides.
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What is the New South?
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The New South was no longer to be dependent on banned slave labor or predominantly upon the raising of cotton, but rather industrialized and part of a modern national economy. Term made popular by Henry Grady.
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What is a fall line?
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A narrow zone that marks the geological boundary between an upland region and a plain, distinguished by the occurrence of falls and rapids where rivers and streams cross it.
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What is a Boll weevil?
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In the late 19th century it infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry and the people working in the American south. Affected the textile industry.
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What is a cotton gin?
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates the cotton fibers from the seeds, a job formerly performed by hand.
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What do cotton compressors do?
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Cotton compressors reduced bales received from cotton gins to roughly half their former size.
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What is a cotton bale?
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A large package of cotton tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped
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What is cotton lint?
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Cotton lint is the loose cotton produced from a cotton gin pulling cotton.
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What is a loom?
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A loom is a device used to weave cloth
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What is a turbine?
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A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.
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What are the specifications of slow-burn construction?
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"slow burning" specifications consist of noncombustible walls, heavy timber posts and beams and double plank floors.
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What is eclecticism?
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It is the combination in a single work of elements from different historical styles.
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What is constructional polychromy?
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Color initiative of or contributing to structural organization of a building.
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What is Venetian Gothic syle?
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Architectural style combining use of the Gothic lancet arch with Byzantine and Moorish architecture influences.
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What is a living hall?
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An imposing entrance hall.
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Who are the bourgeoisie?
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Middle class
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What is a mansard roof?
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A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper punctured by dormer windows
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What is a boulevard?
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Avenue built on the site of a demolished rampart
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What are rond points?
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A circular or semi-circular roundabouts with a kiosk (statute or fountain) in the middle with streets sprawling out from the center of the kiosk like spokes.
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What is a lancet window?
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A lancet window is a tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top.
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What is crenelation?
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To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding (Arch.) A kind of indented molding used in English buildings.
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What does vaulting mean?
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Making (a roof) in the form of a vault.
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What are oriel windows?
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Oriel windows are a form of bay window commonly found in Gothic revival architecture, which jut out from the main wall of the building but do not reach to the ground.
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What does belvedere mean?
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Belvedere refers to any architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fair (nice) view. A belvedere may be built in the upper part of a building so as to command a fine view.
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What is a palazzo?
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A palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution, or even what is called in English a “block of flats” or a tenement in multiple occupancy.
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What is a nave?
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A nave is the main body of the church; it is the central approach to the high altar.
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What is the side-aisle?
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Aisle(s) to the side of the nave (central aisle)
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What is an aspe?
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An apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome.
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How is Gothic architecture linked with Gothic novels?
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Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere.
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What is a chancel?
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In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar in the sanctuary at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
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Define Gothick style
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Originated in 20th century. It features cathedrals, abbeys, and churches. Features are pointed arch, ribbed vaults, and flying buttress.
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