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60 Cards in this Set

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Farnsworth House

Ludwig Miles Van der Rohe

Glass House

Phillip C. Johnson

Fredrick C. Robie residence

Frank Lloyd Wright

Parthenon

Athens, Greece

Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, Egypt

Precinct at Ise, Japan

4 fences, built every 20 years

Louvre

I.M. Pei

Skara Brae

Neolithic settlement, Orkney Islands, coast of Scotland

Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple

Deir el Bahri

Stonehenge

Neolithic England

Adobe

sun dried brick made of clay

Crook Frame

Curved timber, supports the roof "A" shape

Fujian

SE China

Lascausx Cave

Paleolithic wall paintings

Menhir

Stand up

Transom

above door, window

Cairn

Lump of rocks

Catenary Arch

upsidedown chain's

Dolmen

Burial, Big rocks

Henge

Circle of stones

Lintel

Bearing in replace of transom

Oculus

Apex of Dome

Vault

...

Cantilever

Overhangs, projects verticle support

Corbel

Ghost Busters, on columns

Enfilade

Straight arrangment

Khirokatia

Preserved at Eastern Mediterrainean

LongHouse

wood

Trabeated

Post and Beam

Wattle and Daub

African houses

Acropolis

Parthenon's home

Clerestory

Transom X2, on the walls for light

Hypostyle Hall

Roof with columns usually in rows

Mastaba

Egyptian tomb, 1/4 of a Pyramid

Pylon

Tower that forms an entrance to Egyptian temples

Ziggurat

Kinda like a pyramid, Multiple stories

Axis Mundi

Heaven and Earth connection

Heb-Sed

Ceremony to the rule of pharaoh

Impluvium

Square hole in ceiling

Mohenjo-Daro

Earliest major urban setlements, Indus Valley

Tell

Accumulated remains of ancient civilizations,


go tell it on the mountains over the hills....

citidel

fortress

Geomancy

Divination (Supernatural) by geographical features

Ka

Lives in body during life and survives after death

Obelisk

Menhir with a pyramid on top

Temenos

Piece of land dedicated to gods/kings

Akhenaten

Egyptian king who moved from thebes to tell el Amarna

Glacis

Slope for fortification

Megaron

Square living place, with columns

Propylaea

Entrance to a temple, Parthenon

Tholos

Domed Tomb

Amarna Period

Akhenaten and Nefertiti

Hatshepsut

Queen of 18th century

Minoan

Island of Crete, Artwork

Rameses II

King of egypt, Rock temple at Abu Simbel; Floods

Tiryns

Cyclopean wall's, rocks as a vault, fortress city

Dromos

Racetrack, passagway into subterranian tomb

Ineny

Pyramid trincket placed on private tombs

Mycenae

S. Greece, Argolis

Senmut

18th century architect/gov. official. Morturary temple of hatsheptsut