Churches
Structural
Mosques
South & Meso America
Modern
100
This feature and the style it began in
Rose window - Gothic
100
Structural form of structures like this.
Post and Lintel
100
This structure.
Hypostyle hall
100
What building is this - full identification.
Templo Mayor
Aztec, present-day Mexico City, built 1300s destroyed by Spanish 1500s, stone masonry
100
The name of this type of structure
Cantilever/cantilevered
200
Name of this plan
Basilica Plan
200
Name of these two types of vaults
Groin and Barrel vaults
200
The style of decoration used in Islamic spaces (multiple descriptive words accepted)
Vegetal, Arabic (text from the Qu'ran), geometric
200
The technique used making this.
Dry stone technique
200
Minimilast style characterized by rectilinear forms, steel, glass, and concrete. (Bonus: name a building in this style)
International Style
Bonus: Seagram Building
300
Name of this plan - what differentiates it from a basilica plan?
Cruciform plan - extension of the transept (looks like a cross)
300
The type of lighting/windows used. (Bonus: what building is this?)
Clerestory lighting/windows
Santa Sabina
300
Name of this structure and where it is found on mosques.
Minaret -- at each corner of mosque (sometimes more)
300
Stone technique to make structures like this.
Ashlar Masonry (cut stone into rectangular sections, lade precisely, extremely little mortar used)
300
Style of architecture where buildings blend/are closely built with nature.
Organic architecture
400
Name of this plan
Central plan
400
Name of this structural/decorative technique.
Engaged columns
400
This structure AND ITS FUNCTION
Mihrab - points in direction of Mecca for prayer
400
Name of this structure/feature.
Roof comb
400
Name of the column supporting the cantilevered structure.
Pilotis
500
Name of this structural feature - what style is it known to be from?
Flying buttress - Gothic
500
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Name of the column-like part of this building
Pilaster
500
This decorative structure.
Muqarnas
500
Technique used in structures like Templo Mayor where new structures were built directly on top of older ones.
Superimposition
500
Modern technique/feature involving lighter walls to maximize height and size.
Curtain wall