POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

HISTORY- RECORD OF MANS EFFORT TO BUILD BEAUTIFULLY

HERODOTUS- FATHER OF HISTORY
PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE
STONEHENGE-A GENUINE ARCHITECTURE IN THE SENSE THAT IT DEFINES EXTERIOR SPACE
TUMULUS(TUMULI)- MOUND OF EARTH OR STONE, PASSAGE GRAVE
NATURAL CAVES- FIRST MASONRY DWELLING
A. MUDHIF (IRAQ)

B. AMERICAN LOG CABIN (US)

C. INDIAN HOUSE ( BRITISH GUIANA)

D. KICKAPOO INDIAN WIGWAM (WICKIUP) (US)

E. SUMATRAN HOUSE (SUMATRA)

F. ESKIMO(IGLOO)

G. NIGERIAN HUT (NIGERIA)

H. CORNISH COTTAGE (CORNWALL)

I. ANNAMESE WOODEN FRAMED HUT (LAOS)

J. BRAZILLIAN INDIAN HUT (BRAZILI)

K. BEEHIVE HUT (IRELAND)

L. TRULLO (ITALY)

EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE
3200-1 AD
MANETHO- EGYPTIAN PRIEST, COMPILED HISTORY OF EGYPT IN THE GREEK LANGUAGE
RELIGION
-MONOTHEISTIC IN THEORY
-POLYTHEIST IN PRACTICE THROUGH CULT OF MANY GODS
OSIRIS- CHIEF OF WORSHIP, GOD OF DEATH
ISIS- WIFE OF OSIRIS
HORUS- SKY GOD
HATHOR- GODDESS OF LOVE
SET- DREAD GOD OF EVIL
SERAPIS- BULL GOD
NILE RIVER- TRAVEL AND TRADE ROUTE
HIEROGLYPHICS- PICTORIAL PRESENTATION OF RELIGIOUS RITUAL, HISTORIC EVENTS AND DAILY PURSUITS
SPHINXES- MYTHICAL MONSTERS
EACH WITH THE BODY OF A LION AND A HEAD OF A MAN, HAWK, RAM OR A WOMAN-POSSESS IN THEIR
MASSIVE PYLONS, GREAT COURTS, HYPOSTYLE HALLS, INNER SANCTUARIES AND DIM SECRET ROOMS.
SCARAB- SYMBOL OF RESURRECTION
PAPYRUS, LOTUS AND PALM- SYMBOLIZING FERTILITY
GRAPES- SYMBOLIZES ETERNITY
PYLON- MONUMENTAL GATEWAY TO AN EGYPTIAN TEMPLE CONSISTING WITH SLANTING
WALLS
FLANKING THE ENTRANCE PORTAL
MASTABA- AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN RECTANGULAR, FLAT-TOPPED FUNERARY MOUND, WITH
BATTERED (SLOPING) SIDES, COVERING A BURIAL CHAMBER BELOW GROUND.
"SERDABS," CONTAINING STATUES OF THE DECEASED, AND MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY.
SARCOPHAGUS- (RICHLY CARVED COFFIN)
PORTCULLISES - (A HEAVY LATTICE GRATING OF TIMBER, OR IRON, SLIDING IN VERTICAL
GROOVES IN THE JAMBS OF A PORTAL OF A DEFENDED BUILDING)
STEP PYRAMID OF ZOSER; SAKKARA IS THE WORLD'S FIRST LARGE-SCALE MONUMENT
IN STONE
IT HAS BEEN CHANGED NO LESS THAN FIVE TIMES THE KING ZOSER'S ARCHITECT WAS
IMHOTEP
THE GREAT PYRAMID OF CHEOPS IS SQUARE ON PLAN, 760 FEET EACH WAY, ITS AREA
BEING ABOUT 13 ACRES, I.E., TWICE THE EXTENT OF S. PETER, ROME, OR EQUAL TO THE
SIZE OF LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS,
LONDON
HATSHEPSUT- THE ONLY FEMALE PHAROAH
ROCK CUT/ HEWN TOMB- BUILT ALONG HILLSIDE FOR NOBILITY AND NOT FOR ROYALTY
GREAT TEMPLE OF AMMON KARNAK- GRANDEST OF ALL EGYPTIAN TEMPLES
MORTUARY TEMPLES- FOR MINISTRATION TO DEFIED PHAROAHS
20 METERS- HEIGHT OF 4 ROCK CUT STATUE OF RAMSES SEATING IN THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ABU SIMBEL
CLEAR STOREY- TO WHICH LIGHT WAS EMITTED
ELECTRUM-CAPPED PYRAMIDION- SUMMIT OF THE OBLELISKS
LOGGIA- A GALLERY BEHIND AN OPEN ARCADE OR COLONNADE
NAME THIS PICTURE: FORTRESS OF BUHEN

12- NUMBER OF OBELISKS TRANSFERRED FROM EGYPT TO ROME

ANCIENT NEAR EAST ARCHITECTURE

5000 BC- AD 641- YEAR OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES- FERTILE PLAINS OF TWIN RIVER
MEGARON- PRINCIPAL ROOM FOR ANATOLIAN HOUSE
1800 M- ALTITUDE OF PERSEPOLIS
WHAT IS MESO IN MESOPOTAMIA? MIDDLE
CYRUS THE GREAT- FOUNDER OF ACHEAMENIAN EMPIRE
ARTAXERXES I- FINSIHED THE PALACE OF PERSEPOLIS EXECUTED BY XERXES
APADANA- A GRAND AUDIENCE HALL
HOW MANY COLUMNS ARE THERE IN PERSEPOLIS ERECTED BY DARIUS? 100 COLUMNS
ARCUATED- CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHITECTURE
URNAMMU- REMODEL THE ZIGGURAT AND PRECINCT OF UR
THE ZIGGURAT OF UR WAS BUILT IN 2100 BC FOR SU’EN MOON GOD.
CITY OF KHORSABAD-BUILT BY SAIGON 11 (772 -705 BC)
PALACE OF SARGON- A COMPLEX OF LARGE AND SMALL COURTS, CORRIDORS AND ROOMS, COVERING 23
ACRES
SERAGLIO- PALACE PROPER WHICH INCLUDES KING’S RESIDENCES, STATEHALLS, MENS APARTMENTS AND
RECEPTION HALLS
TEMPLE OF BIRS NIMROUD-DEDICATED TO THE SEVEN HEAVENLY SPHERES

IDENTIFY WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? DOUBLE BULL CAP

 GREEK ARCHITECTURE
3000-30 BC
AEGEAN ARCHITECTURE (3000-1100 BC)
HERA- WIFE OF ZEUS AND GODDESS OF MARRIAGE
SACRED BULL- SYMBOLIZES THE HORN OF CONSECRATION
CYCLOPEAN WALL- LARGE STONES, NO MORTAR, CLAY BEDDING
MYCENEAN PERIOD-ALSO KNOWN AS PELASGIC, CYLCOPEAN OR PRIMITIVE PERIOD
ECHINUS- MOULDING RESEMBLING THE SHELL OF SEA URCHIN
122M- WHOLE SPAN OF THE PALACE OF KING MINOS
THE PALACE TIRYNS- IS A HILL TOP CITADEL
THOLOS- A SUBTERRANEAN STONE VAULTED CONSTRUCTION SHAPED LIKE AN OLD FASHIONED SKIP BEEHIVE
HELLENIC PERIOD (650-323 BC)
GREEK ARCHITECTURE SOMETIMES HAS BEEN CALLED A CARPENTRY IN MARBLE
DADO- THE PORTION OF A PEDESTAL BETWEEN ITS BASE AND CORNICE.
ENTASIS- A SWELLING OR CURVING OUTWARDS ALONG THE OUTLINE OF A COLUMN OR SHAFT
ETRUSCANS- DEVELOPED THE TUSCAN
IDENTIFY FIGURE 5. CAVETTO

VOUSSOIRS- THE TRUNCATED WEDGE SHAPED BLOCKS FORMING AN ARCH

EXEDRAE- A RECESS OR ALCOVE
MNESICLES- ARCHITECT OF PROPYLEA
PINACOTHECA- A PICTURE GALLERY OR A BUILDING TO CONTAIN PAINTED PICTURES
NAOS-THE PRINCIPAL CHAMBER IN A GREEK TEMPLE CONTAINING THE STATUE OF DEITY
IDENTIFY THE PICTURE? AMPHI-ANTIS

TENIA- A FLAT PROJECTING BAND CAPPING THE ARCHITRAVE OF A DORIC ENTABLATURE

ANNULETS- A SMALL FLAT FILLET ENCIRCLING A COLUMN
ARRIS- THE SHARP EDGE FORMED BY THE MEETING OF TWO SURFACES
TELAMONES- CARVED MALE FIGURES SERVISNG AS PILLARS ALSO KNOWN AS ATLANTES
69.54 X 30.89- AREA OF PARTHENON, ATHENS
PLINTH- LOWEST SQUARE MEMBER OF THE BASE OF THE COLUMN
DENTILS- TOOTH LIKE BLOCKS IN IONIC AND CORINTHIAN CORNICES
PROCSCENIUM- CAME TO BE BUILT IN FRONT OF THE SKENE
TEMPLE OF APOLLO, NEAR MILETUS- FINE EXAMPLE OF DIPTERAL DECASTYLE
LIBON- ARCHITECT TEMPLE OF ZEUS OLYMPIUS
POLYCLEITOS THE YOUNGER- ARCHITECT THOLOS, EPIDAUROS
APTERAL- NO SIDE COLONNADES
TOWER OF THE WINDS- ALSO KNOWN AS THE HOROLOGIUM OF ANDRONIKOS CYRRHESTES
LOGEION- “SPEAKING PLACE” STAGE OF THE GREEK THEATER