Architectural Styles
Architects
Famous Pieces of Architecture
Key Components of Architecture
Characteristics of Styles
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This style flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
What is Gothic?
100
An American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Most famous works include Falling Water, Robie House, and Taliesin West.
What is Frank Lloyd Wright?
100
A historic Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.
What is Notre Dame Paris?
100
Two vertical uprights with a horizontal header resting on top.
What is Post and Lintel?
100
This Gothic element is composed of a slanting from a separate pier, typically forming an arch with the wall it supports.
What is a Flying Buttress?
200
A style of decorative art developed originally in the 1920s with a revival in the 1960s, marked chiefly by geometric motifs, curvilinear forms, sharply defined outlines, often bold colors, and the use of synthetic materials, as plastics.
What is Art Deco?
200
An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
What is Michelangelo?
200

Considered as the birthplace of Gothic Architecture due to its pioneering use of the pointed arch, ribbed vault, and stained-glass windows designed to flood the interior with lux nova.

What is Abbey Church of Saint-Denis?

200
A curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.
What is an Arch?
200

The triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns.

What is a Pediment?

300

A movement emerged during the Industrial Revolution, combating mass production and heavily relying on technology.

What is Arts and Crafts Movement?

300
An Iraqi-British architect. In 2004 she became the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Famous works include Dubai Opera, Riverside Museum, and Heydar Aliyev Center.
What is Zaha Hadid?
300
A building in Rome, Italy, on the site of an earlier building commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus.
What is the Pantheon?
300
An extended arch.
What is a Vault?
300

Often referred to as "stalactite vaulting," what decorative architectural feature is used in Islamic Architecture to transition smoothly from the square base of a wall to a dome or within arches, squnches, and cornices?

What is a Muqarnas?

400
The architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
What is Renaissance?
400
An American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".
What is Louis Henry Sullivan?
400
The eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city.
What is Ishtar Gate?
400

A structural device in Byzantine architecture forms a trianguar spherical segment that transitions smoothly from a square supporting base up to a circular dome.

What is Pendentive?

400
A circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall that was ideally used in the Byzantine style.
What is Oculus?
500
This was the style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.
What is Romanesque?
500
A Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. Famous works include Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dancing House, and 8 Spruce Street.
What is Frank Gehry?
500

A highy specialized, semi-permanent Upper Paleolithic shelter engineered from the skeletal remains of megafauna to survive harsh Ice Age climates.

What is Mezhyrich?

500
A rectangular column.
What is Pilaster?
500
An ornamental molding around the wall of a room just below the ceiling. Commonly found in ancient Greek Architecture.
What is Cornice?
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