Contextual questions for architecture:
What is the function?
In which era or period was it built?
Who was the patron?
What type of plan?
What is the structure or engineering system?
What is the aesthetic? (ornamentation, style, vocabulary)
How is the building sited? (reason for orientation, cardinal pts, direction, relationship to other structures, etc.)
How did one enter the building?
Describe special features of the interior space.
How does one move through the building?
Complete the chart to use as a study guide for important architecture:
Building |
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Patron |
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Structure type |
Entry & Movement through building |
Special features/ |
Stonehenge |
Neo-lithic |
Salsbury Plain, |
2550-1600 |
Solar calendar/ |
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Towards the East |
central |
Post & lintel trilithons |
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Summer solstice |
Ziggurat at Ur |
Mesopotamia |
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Great Pyramids |
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Hypostyle Hall |
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Vault of the tholos |
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Parthenon |
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Pont du Gard |
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Don't stop here! Open Word and add more rows. The complete chart up to the 20th century will be due April 2012.
links of interest:
http://faculty.ulv.edu/~clarka/dlc/hum290/gratart.html