History
Middle Ages Structures
Types of Stress
Post-antiquity Styles
Trusses and Styles
100

This architecture is characterized by straight lines, glamor, and social progress

Art Deco

100

Early Gothic architecture lacked these structures

Arches

100

Force that squeezes material together

Compression

100

This architecture is characterized by pointed arches and taller towers

Gothic

100

This architecture is characterized by rounded arches and barrel vaults 

Romanesque

200

This event ends the classical era

The Fall of Rome

200

These capitals broke from the traditional orders and grew more sophisticated

Romanesque

200

Force that pulls material apart

Tension

200

This architecture is characterized by a return to the classical principles of ancient Greece and Rome

Neoclassical

200

Warren Truss

300

This leader crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor to revive classicism

Charlemagne

300

This is an external, open support to distribute the weight of tall towers

Flying Buttress

300

When under three points of stress, one side is larger than the other

Bending

300

This architecture was the Romantic attempt to return to the principles of the late medieval era

Gothic Revival

300

This architecture is characterized by round arches, wide frames, and straight lines

Renaissance
400

This event sends scholars West to start the Renaissance

Fall of Constantinople

400

This is a rounded arch extended down a hall

Barrel Vault
400

Opposing forces in different areas of the object

Shear

400

This architecture took the basic elements of the Renaissance and elevated and decorated them

Baroque

400

This architecture is characterized by the use of glass, steel, and concrete and straight lines

Modern

500

Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on this date (month, day, year)

December 25, 800

500

This is a support beam placed diagonally, allowing for higher towers

Ribbed Vault

500

Force twisting an object

Torsion

500

This architecture is characterized by curves, variety, and lack of formality

Postmodern

500

Pratt Truss

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