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WorksheetsArchitectural Styles and Terms
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
This type of architecture uses simple shapes, cool colors, smooth texture and is horizontally balanced.
Spanish Architecture
Federal Architecture
French Architecture
Modern Architecture
This architectural style is usually composed of brick, block, or stone, has a chimney through the structure and is built in a box like shape.
Modern Architecture
Ranch Architecture
Cubic Architecture
Federal Architecture
This style of architecture is symmetrical, contains dormers, has a steep roof and often a rough texture i.e. stucco.
Modern Architecture
Federal Architecture
French Architecture
Spanish Architecture
What is the horizontal window above the door called?
Transom
Peak-a-boo Window
Picture Window
Bay Window
What is the structure in front of the door considered?
Awning
Canopy
Portico
Roof
What term could be best used to describe the action of this building?
Lean
Cantilever
Hover
Float
What is the triangle section known as?
Cupola
Finial
Entablature
Pediment
Which house has a horizontal emphasis?
This architectural style is known for half timbering.
Federal
Saltbox
Tudor
Victorian
Name that Style!
Ranch
Cape Cod
Queen Anne
Bungalow
Name that Style!
Second Empire
Cape Cod
Dutch Colonial
Greek Revival
Name that Style!
Victorian
Federal
Southwestern
Greek Revival
________ architectural style has towers, gingerbread trim and fish scale patterns.
Queen Anne/Victorian
Colonial
Federal
Ranch
What architectural style is a rectangular, symmetrical home with bedrooms on the second floor and is pictured here.
Victorian
Colonial
Tudor
Craftsman
What architectural style has large overhanging eaves and pedestal-like tapered columns and is pictured here?
Ranch
Craftsman
Federal
Colonial
What architectural style is one story with a built-in garage?
Colonial
Modern
Ranch
French
Which architectural style is designed to incorporate it's surrounding landscape and is usually odd-sized with straight lines and large windows?
Victorian
Colonial
Prairie
Modern
This style might have stucco exterior, wrought iron, courtyard, terracotta roof tiles, and multiple balconies.
Mediterranean
Spanish Colonial
Federal
Victorian/Queen Anne
Ribbon windows are a series of windows set side by side to form a continuous band horizontally across a facade. Which image below best represents ribbon windows?
What is the name of the of the architectural element inside the circled area?
Truss
Beam
Arch
Column
(True or False) The architectural element circled above is a dormer.
True
False
(True or False) The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building.
True
False
(True or False) Slope is the incline of the roof expressed as a ratio of the vertical rise of the horizontal run.
True
False
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Which image best represents that roof?
A gable roof is the classic, most commonly occurring roof shape in those parts of the world with cold or temperate climates. It consists of two roof sections sloping in opposite directions and placed such that the highest, horizontal edges meet to form the roof ridge. Which image best represents that roof?
The arrow points to which part of the roof?
Slope
Valley
Eave
Ridge
A roof valley is formed where two roof slopes meet. Water collects in a valley to flow off the roof. Would the circle portions of the picture below represent roof valleys? (Yes or No)
Yes
No
Maybe
A parapet is a barrier that is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure. Would you say the arrow is pointing to a parapet? (Yes or No)
Yes
No
Maybe
A window shutter is a solid and stable window covering usually consisting of a frame of vertical stiles and horizontal rails (top, center, and bottom). Would the circle portions of the picture below represent window shutters? (Yes or No)
Yes
No
Maybe
A ______ style house has sweeping horizontal lines and wide open floor plans. Other common features of this style include overhanging eaves, rows of small windows, one-story projections and in many cases a central chimney.
Craftsman
Modern
Tudor
Prairie
