Words of an Architect
The art or practice of designing and construction of buildings, brides, and other structures.
What is architecture?
Anything inside or on top of an object that has weight.
What is a load?
A combination of sand, clay, limestone, gravel, water and more
What is concrete?
The strongest basic shape, used in building trusses.
What is a triangle?
Bell tower in Italy that took over 200 years to complete and was built on soft soil.
A carved human or animal face or figure projecting from the gutter of a building typically acting as a spout.
What is a gargoyle?
The state of being stretched tight.
What is tension?
Concrete that is embedded with steel
What is reinforced concrete?
The best shape for a beam to withstand torsion, tension, and compression
What is an "I" beam?
Building in New York City that held the record at one time for the tallest building in the world.
What is the Empire State Building?
A structural element of Gothic architecture, completely external to the main structure, that resists the lateral thrust of ceiling vaults.
What is a flying buttress?
Bending is the unimpressive word for these two forces acting together.
What is tension and compression?
Although more expensive than wood and concrete, this material is very strong in both tension and compression, is ductile, and is assembled easily.
What is steel?
The most famous suspension bridge in America.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
The current tallest building in the world, featured in Mission Impossible IV.
What is the Burj Kalifa?
The name for the decorative head on the top of a column.
What is a capital?
Twisting a household sponge is an example of this force in action.
What is torsion?
This building material is relatively lightweight, easy to work with, resists electricity, has tensile and compressive strength but is most affected by elements of nature.
What is wood?
Two of the three main types of bridges.
What is suspension, beam and arch?
Frank Lloyd Wright was laughed at for envisioning this type of building although it is under construction today.
What is a mile-high skyscraper?
What is another word used by architects to describe the side or facade of a building?
What is elevation?
Three of the external or internal forces acting on skyscrapers.
What are the structure’s weight, wind, snow, people, gravity, or earthquakes?
The ability of a material to show little or no yielding before failure.
What is brittle?
The three types of Greek columns.
What are doric, ionic, and corinthian?
The most perfect Greek building that has perfect proportions and without using perfectly straight lines
What is the Parthenon?