What is architecture?

Architecture is:

• Building stuff

• The art and technique of designing buildings

• Making a house

• Designing an office

What is "Vernacular Architecture"?

• Talking about architecture in the correct tense

• Using space age materials such as carbon fiber

• Architecture found in Venice, Italy

• Architecture specific to region and time period that uses natural materials found close by

_______ is an example of Vernacular Architecture

• Hotel

• Igloo

• Duplex

• Mansion

Renaissance architecture relied heavily on:

• Mathematics and symmetry

• Bricks

• Wood

• Educated guesses

Renaissance buildings typically employed the following:

• Roofs, cantilevers, marble

• Hatchways, doors, towers

• Mote, bridges, turrets

• Arches, spires, columns

What architectural feature was widely seen for the first time during the Renaissance?

• Dome

• Mote

• Wood frame

• Granite

The following is NOT one of the original column orders in Renaissance architecture:

• Doric

• Contemporary

• Ionic

• Corinthian

This is an example of what type of column?

• Ionic

• Doric

• Corinthian

• Neo-classical

This is an example of what type of Renaissance column?

• Doric

• Ionic

• Corinthian

• Contemporary

Renaissance columns were created using a precise ratio between:

• Height and width of building

• Diameter of the base and the height of column

• Radius of column and width of building

• Diameter of the top and height of column