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  • Lancet arch

    The architectural style in English Gothic architecture that is closest to the Italian style
  • Stylobate

    A continuous base of structure on which a colonnade is placed
  • Octastyle

    A temple with 8 columns in front and rear, and 15 columns on both sides, including the 2 columns at the front
  • Cheops

    The pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid of Giza in the 4th dynasty
  • Cornice

    A gutter in modern times
  • Propylaea
    The imposing entrance to the Acropolis, erected by the architect Mnesicles
  • Through gothic centuries the English style that is closest to French style is Lancet
  • Pyramid

    The tomb of pharaohs in Egyptian architecture
  • Gargoyle

    A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal, serving as a spout and projecting from a gutter to throw rainwater clear off a building
  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    The architect who advocated the "organic arch" and envisioned the "broadacre city" for the future
  • Egyptian architecture

    Principally designed for internal effect
  • Seville Cathedral

    The largest medieval cathedral in Europe, with the exception of St. Peter's in Rome, and the largest church in the world
  • Ictinus

    The architect of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius
  • Mastaba

    The tomb of nobility in Egyptian architecture
  • Colosseum

    The plan of the Colosseum in Rome is shaped in the form of an ellipse
  • Walter Gropius: '"I believe that people make natural association with forms, color and the composition of elements while decoration and detailing help communicate with a building's purpose"'
  • There was no greatest patron of Romanesque architecture
  • In Gothic churches, the purpose of the flying buttress is none
  • Hypotrachelion

    The part of the Greek order where the shaft terminates
  • Falling Water

    The function of the overhanging slab is to create a terrace
  • Greek architecture

    Was essentially columnar and trabeated
  • Florence Cathedral
    Also known as the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, it is world renowned for having the largest brick dome ever constructed
  • Roman rectangular temple

    Stood on a podium
  • Gothic architecture originated in Northern France
  • Peripteral temple

    A Greek temple with 6 columns in front and back, and 11 columns on the sides, including the outermost columns at the front and back
  • Acroterion
    Blocks resting on the vertex or lower extremes of the pediment
  • Colosseum
    Commenced by Vespasian and completed by Domitian
  • Doxiadis
    The architect/city planner who authored the "ekistics" - the science of human settlements
  • Buckminster Fuller

    The architect who designed and advocated the geodesic dome for cities of tomorrow
  • Romanesque architecture in Italy

    Is distinguished from the rest of Europe by the use of marble for facing walls
  • Bahay Kubo
    From "balai" for house and "kubo" for cube
  • Art Deco

    A style influenced by geometric figures
  • Romans

    Used arch and vault to achieve huge interiors made possible by concrete made with pozzolona, a native natural cement
  • Aerostyle

    4D Column Distance
  • Caida
    The area reserved for entertaining guests in a Bahay Kubo
  • Composite order
    The order that was added by the Romans to the orders used by the Greeks
  • Falling Water

    One of Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture
  • Pantheon

    A temple with a circular plan supporting a dome of about 140 ft in diameter, described by Thomas Jefferson as a model of spherical arch
  • Caryatid

    A type of support in the porch of maidens
  • Gothic architecture, third phase
    Not specified