EARLY WORLD ARCHITECTURE
This dome‑shaped structure uses a bent‑sapling frame.
What is a wigwam?
This simplest Greek order has no base and features fluting.
What is Doric?
This medieval style uses round arches and fortress‑like massing.
What is Romanesque?
This Italian Renaissance villa is known for perfect symmetry.
What is the Villa Rotonda?
This Baroque technique creates illusionistic ceilings.
What is quadratura?
This elongated building type housed multiple families in a communal plan.
What is a longhouse?
This order is known for its scroll‑shaped volutes.
What is Ionic?
This Gothic structural element channels thrust outward to allow taller walls.
What is a flying buttress?
This Iberian style blends Gothic massing with ornate, lace‑like façades.
What is Plateresque?
This French term describes ornament resembling shells and pebbles.
What is rocaille?
A recessed ritual space often used symbolically in temples.
What is a niche?
This Roman innovation allowed for wider interior spans than post‑and‑lintel.
What is the arch?
This type of vault, characteristic of Gothic, uses intersecting ribs.
What is a rib vault?
Spanish Colonial structures use these roof beams paired with latillas.
What are vigas?
This Baroque lighting technique heightens drama through contrast.
What is chiaroscuro?
This pyramid is known for repeated recesses with astronomical meaning.
What is the Pyramid of the Niches?
This type of vault is formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults.
What is a groin vault?
This architectural feature symbolizes “light as theology.”
What are stained‑glass windows?
French Colonial houses often sit on these to protect from flooding.
What are raised foundations?
This Rococo furniture feature curves outward like an animal’s leg.
What is a cabriole leg?
This concept explains why many temples align with solstices or cardinal directions.
What is celestial alignment?
This term refers to the horizontal beam supported by columns in Egyptian and Greek architecture.
What is post‑and‑lintel?
This plan type, used in Early Christian churches, features a long nave and side aisles.
What is a basilica plan?
This Dutch Colonial roof type has two slopes on each side.
What is a gambrel roof?
This Baroque characteristic uses movement and theatricality to convey power.
What is Baroque theatricality?