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WorksheetsARLH 206 Quiz 2
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins
- who was as Italian architect, designed Villa Rotunda, most influential figures in western architecture
Wrote: Four Books of Architecture, 1570
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what book is about:
-1st book is about: building materials, techniques, and five orders of arch.: tuscan, doric, ionic, corinthian, and composite
-2nd book is about: town houses, country estates
-3rd book is about: streets, bridges, piazzas, basilicas, etc.
-4th book is about: roman temples, including the pantheon -
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-who was a French architect, draftsman, and antiquary;
-became a leading authority on ancient Roman architecture and Roman ruins in Italy and France.
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what is
-Located: Nimes, France
-What: well preserved ancient roman building that represents textbook definition of a roman temple
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what style was
-When: Dominated american architecture: 1780-1840
-What: principal design of the colonial period, evolved from the Georgian Style
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-Who: was an engineer, architect, and city planner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and subsequently designed the spatial plan for Washington, D.C.
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-Who: Architect, 3rd president of the US, and founding father
Built: State capitol, Washington D.C
Best Known: for homes such as Monticello, and Popular Forest (became laboratories for his design interests)
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-Who: 1st american architect who gained fame as a designer of government buildings
Built:
- Massachusetts State House (1795-98)
- Connecticut State House
- Maine Capitol
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- Who: British born architect, and civil engineer who established architecture as a profession in the United States.
-was the most original proponent of the Greek Revival style in American building.
Built:
-US Capitol
-Decatur House
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Who: Irish-American architect, best known for designing the White House
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American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol.
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What: inspired by the symmetry, proportion, simplicity, and elegance of the ancient Greek temples of 5th century B.C.
- During: 1825-1855
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Founded: 1803
French for “School of Fine Arts”
Refers to a number of influential art schools in France.
The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.[1]
Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum
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- was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia.
- The ruins of Paestum are notable for their three ancient Greek temples which are in a very good state of preservation.
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What empire:
- Under the rule of Napoloen III
- the empire was authoritarian but enjoyed economic growth and pursued a favourable foreign policy.
- Architecture featured mansard roof, a four-sided gambrel roof with a shallow or flat top usually pierced by dormer windows.
- Featured neo baroque
- 1852–70
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what phase has elements of baroque but not the original baroque style
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- one of the first American-born professional architects.
- A Neoclassical architect that followed Jeffersons form
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- U.S. architect and engineer who was one of the leaders of the Greek Revival in the first half of the 19th century.
- first became known as a scene painter
- Studied under Latrobe
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- French architect important for his early use of iron frame construction.
- primarily remembered for the two Parisian libraries he designed.
- Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, and the Bibliothèque Nationale
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The pseudo archaic spelling of gothic in the sense of dark ages, gloomy or horrifying
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International exhibition in Hyde Park London. First in the series of world fairs
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English writer, connoisseur, and collector known for his novel The Castle of Otranto (first gothic novel in the english language)
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- French architect
- Expert on gothic architecture
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-Known for gothic revival style
-Contrasts, 1836
His critique of architecture and society of his time
- True Principles of Pointed, or Christian Architecture, 1841
He laid down the firm principles for Victorian Gothic Revival
-An Apology, 1843
He urged his fellow architects to build an architecture that was both Christian and English
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Designed the first cast iron bridge in the world
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He popularized cast iron construction
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English landscape gardener and designer of hothouses, architect of Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition
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Built many bridges, most being in South America, Australia, and India
Jointly responsible for designing the London Bridge railway station
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