Intro to Architecture Final Review 2023

Classical architecture is prolific.

• True

• False

The ancient Greeks typically utilized the arch in their monumental temple structures.

• True

• False

Columns in classical architecture are only used in a row supporting a horizontal lintel called a colonnade and they are never employed in a series of arches called an arcade.

• True

• False

Greek monumental architecture is best described as a trabeated system.

• True

• False

Framed within a pair of columns and an entablature, an arch in classical architecture has decisive relationship with other building elements at its springing and its crown.

• True

• False

The Romans sometimes employed decorative freestanding columns and triumphal arches to commemorate great human beings and heroid deeds.

• True

• False

It can be argues that, to the ancient Romans and Greeks, the orders represent the highest, most essential, most expressive language of architecture.

• True

• False

The design and proportion of columns in ancient Greece and Rome were governed via treatises by sets of general rules laid out according to types, or genres, or orders.

• True

• False

In the capitals found in many early Christian churches, acanthus leaves were adapted from classical Greek and Roman types and were often combined with volutes in new and inventive ways.

• True

• False

Designing with the classical language of architecture means that the proportions and types of the orders have nothing to do with the arrangement of the architectural parts that make up the whole of a building's design.

• True

• False