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The title of "architect" did not come about until late in the medieval period, thus a building designer in the Middle Ages was usually called
  • Aztec calendar
  • a master builder
  • security
  • Machu Picchu in Peru
According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, most wooden truss systems
  • a and b (correct answer)were often hidden behind elaborated decorated ceilings played a secondary supportive role
  • surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment containing about 250 drawings
  • amount of stained glass used in the walls
  • thin stone ribs that carried stress lines from the roof to the piers down into the foundations
According to Professor Tilson's lecture on Gothic architecture, structural vaults had been known for a millennia emerging from Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Romanesque architecture. However, gothic structures reduced the weight of the vaults through the use of
  • thin stone ribs that carried stress lines from the roof to the piers down into the foundations
  • a and b (correct answer)were often hidden behind elaborated decorated ceilings played a secondary supportive role
  • all of the above: particular deities, trees, colors
  • surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment containing about 250 drawings
Ancestral Pueblo architecture of tribes in the Southwest established
  • irrigation that allowed the inhabitants to cultivate a variety of crops
  • amount of stained glass used in the walls
  • methods for the conservation and management of water
  • all of the above: particular deities, trees, colors
The Fali compound was formed in the shape of a circle for the purpose of ____________.
  • security
  • a master builder
  • irrigation that allowed the inhabitants to cultivate a variety of crops
  • Aztec calendar
According to Professor Tilson's lecture on the Americas, most Mesoamerican cultures had a four- directional symbolic-spatial cosmology with the cardinal directions-each associated with
  • unfolded in the landscape
  • thin stone ribs that carried stress lines from the roof to the piers down into the foundations
  • all of the above: particular deities, trees, colors
  • amount of stained glass used in the walls
Teotihuacan and Oaxaca were both prominent cities during Pre-Columbian Mexico. Sharing many similarities, one aspect of their architecture was very different - the Olmecs built their religious center atop a leveled mountain while the religious center in Teotihuacan was
  • skeletal
  • present a building or a model for evaluation by the masters of his craft guild
  • coincided every 52 years
  • designed around a great horizontal causeway
One of the hallmarks of the Gothic Style is
  • a master builder
  • the rib vault
  • the reclining male figure
  • Aztec calendar
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