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• Tumuli are earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons.
• Megaliths are large stones.
• Dolmen is a burial tomb consisting of three or more upright stones and one or more capstone.
• Cromlech is an enclosure formed by huge stones panted in the grave in a circle.
• Pyramid is the tomb of the pharaohs in Egyptian architecture.
• Cheops is the architect of The Great Pyramid at Giza.
• Rameses I is the beginner of the great hypostyle hall at Karnak and the founder of the 19th dynasty.
• Senusret I erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis.
• Pyramid of Zoser is the world's first large-scale monument in stone.
• Pyramid of Khufu is the highest sloped pyramid in Gizeh.
• Sarcophagus are richly carved coffins.
• Imhotep was King Zoser's architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty.
• Crypt is the tomb beneath a church.
• Palm, Lotus, and Papyrus are favorite motifs of design of the Egyptians.
• Hypostyle Hall is a pillared hall in which the roofs rests on the column in Egyptian temples.
• Thothmes I began the building of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak.
• Ptolemy III is the architect of the Great Serapeum at Alexandria.
• Rock-Hewn Tombs are tombs built for the Egyptian nobility rather than the royalty.
• Papyrus is the Egyptian Ornament symbolizing fertility.
• Pylon is a massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape.
• Obelisk is a monumental, 4-sided stone shaft, usually monolithic and tapering to a pyramidal tip.
• Marble is the mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture.
• During the Industrial Revolution, the urban population increased, towns and cities multiplied by number and size, and a new urban society emerged.
• New building types during the Industrial Revolution included government buildings, neo-classism and gothic revival.
• Examples of structures of the International Style include Villa Savoye (1931) designed by Le Corbusier, Seagram Building (1958) designed by Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe & Philip Johnson.
• The Modern Movement is also known as Modernism.
• Characteristics of the Modern Movement include simplicity, no ornaments, machine aesthetic, emphasis on horizontal and vertical lines, and “Form follows function”.
• The Industrial Revolution is the movement in which machines changed people’s way of life.
• The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century and continued into the 19th century.
• Columnar trabeated is an essential characteristic of Greek Architecture.
• Demand for new buildings was greater than ever during the Industrial Revolution.
• Characteristics of the International Style include rectilinear forms, open interior spaces, large expanses of glass, steel, concrete construction, no ornaments, and natural light.
• The most important changes brought by the Industrial Revolution are the inventions of machine, use of steam, and adaptation of the factory system.
• Giacomo Da Vignola is a theoretician and published a book called 5 orders.
• The effects of the Industrial Revolution on architecture included the use of new man made building materials, new structural techniques, new technical systems, and the development of iron buildings.
• San Francesco, Rimini: Side arcades supported on piers are roughly Roman.
• Prominent buildings of the Industrial Revolution include The Crystal Palace, London designed by Joseph Paxton, Eiffel Tower in Paris by Engr. Gustave Eiffel, Conservatory, Chatsworth by Joseph Paxton, and Houses of Parliament by Sir Charles Barry.
• San Andrea, Mantua: Facade represents a triumphal arch.
• Palazzo Massimo, Rome by Giacomo Da Vignola is controlled, elegant and serious without eccentricities, introducing the oval shape into the ground plan, a stepping stone for the dynamic baroque style.
• The Church of II Gesu, Rome is a prominent structure from the Industrial Revolution.