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triangular cap to a temple

triangular cap to a temple

pediment

base of the temple

stylobate

most sculptural part of the temple, second of the horizontal bands above the columns

frieze

shift from the frieze to the pediment on a temple

cornice

first of the horizontal bands above the columns

architrave

cave like space in a garden

grotto

central most location in a Frank Lloyd Wright home

hearth

How is Hagia Sophia circular dome supported by 4 piers?

pendentives

floor one level up from ground level, where most important functions located

piano nobile

tour one would take after their formal education to visit the antiquities of Greece and Classical Roman empire

Grand Tour

vocab word for the bulge in column

entasis

vocab word for the spacing between columns

intercolumniation

How is the stylobate adjusted?

stylobate curved UP

Where are the columns closer in a Greek Temple?

corners

Why are the columns closer at corners?

NOT for structural reasons, optical reasons because light comes through at the corners visually dematerializing corner of the temple

column in the shape of a woman

caraytid

spirit in Egyptian culture

by proclomation of the President only, declaring land as a national monument for historic or scientific purposes

Antiquities Act

ecozone between water (river or stream) and land

Riparian

Italian for canopy

Baldachino

large house in rural area

villa

large house in urban area

palazzo

garden designers imitating paintings

picturesque

optical manipulation appearing as if items are either closer or farther away

foreshortening

2 distinguishing items defining the Corinthian capital

acanthus leaves and volutes

name two styles coined/named by FLW

Prairie Style and Usonian

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