HISTORY - IDLE 2019

intercolumniation

What is the spacing between columns in a colonnade and it is measured at the base of the shaft ?

Rose Window

What is a large round window usually in the façade of a Gothic church ?

Embossed

What is a type of decoration where the design is raised from the background of the material ?

Linenfold

What is a Gothic pattern that looks like folded linen ?

Moorish

What is a Spanish decorative style developed under Islamic influence in the 13th to 17th centuries ?

Stonehenge

What is a CIRCLE of large upright stones probably the setting for religious ceremonies in prehistoric England ?

Batter

What is an inward slope of a vertical wall surface ?

Groin

What is the edge between the intersecting vaults ?

Rosette

What is an ornamental motif formed by a series of leaves arranged around a central point ?

Vernacular

What is a term to describe rural architectural in its simplest and purest form ?

Tudor House

What is the other name for Half Timber construction ?

Lancet arch

What is a pointed arch having two centers and radii greater than the span ?

Art Deco

What was the period style of the famous landmark in New York City , the Chrysler Building ?

Sphinx

What is a support that is tapering towards the bottom portion ? It is usually crowned with head or bust and has ornamental human or animal feet .

Quatrefoil

What is the four-lobed ornamentation in Gothic architecture ?

Atrium

What is a courtyard with a central opening in the roof ?

Fauvism

What is the barrowing of design from various earlier periods common in the first half of the 20th century ?

Stave

What is an early mecieval church in Finland using massive vertical structural members ?

Miter

What is a joint between two pieces , with each cut at an angle to fit at a corner of the intersection ?

proudwork

What is a stone that stand out from the combination of the same flat plane of flint and ashlar stone ?

Battlement

What is a parapet thatconsist of solid part and open spaces designed for defense ?

Versailles Palace

Where can the " Hall of Mirror " be found ?

Loo

What is a European term for bathroom ?

skewback

What is a block from which the diagonal ribs of a vault starts?

Voussoir

What is a wedge - shaped block or keystone used in the construction of a true arch ?

Temple

What is a house built in the form of a Greek place of worship ?

Clerestory

What is a window or opening in the upper part of a wall ?

Abacus

What is the slab that forms the uppermost part of the capital of a column ?

Post Modernism

What is a 20th century design succeeding modernist work characterized by historicism and use of decorative elements ?

Lapis Lazuli

What is a deep blue stone used as an ornamentation but later used as a blue pigment ?

Cusping

What is the pointed termination of a trefoil or quatrefoil in Gothic architecture ?

Art Nouveau

emphasizes on decoration What is a period approximately from 1880 to 1920 that the style derived from construction techniques and hand made products with the tool marks lefts intact ?

Onyx

What is a type of stone that is fine-grained with a smooth milk - white surface? It is also slightly translucent.

Keystone

What is a wedge - shaped stone which retains its place in the completed arch structure ?

Atrium

An inner court open to the sky is

Portico

What is a colonnade supporting a roof to form a porch usually at theentrance to a building ?

Palladian Window

What is a window with two central arched section flanked by two tall , narrow rectangular sections , this is popular along the landing of the staircase ?

Atlantes

What is the series of male form that serves as a column in the Greek architecture ?

Coffer

What is a hallowed out panel in a ceiling , vault or dome ?

Centering

What is a wooden framework built to support an arch , vault or dome during construction ?

Philip Johnson

The glass house that depicts a modern architecture in America was designed by

Aedicule

What is a miniature shrine or temple generally consisting of a pediment and entablature supported on a pair of columns or pilasters ?

San Agustin Church

What is the Manila Catholic Gothic church in the area of Malacañan ?

Baldacchino

What is a canopy supported by columns usually above an altar or tomb ?

Gesso

What is smooth mixture of ground chalk of plaster and glue used for the basis for tempera painting ?

Unicorn

What is the symbol of chastity of an imaginary animal often featured in the arts ?

Oculus

What do you call the great eye in Pantheon ?

Bastion

What is the projecting part of the fortification , typically forming an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main fortress ?

Impluvium

What is a pool or cistern in the center of a courtyard open to the sky in ancient Roman architecture ?

Shoji

What are sliding screen panels used to divide space in traditional Japanese house architecture ?

Marble/Colored glass mosaic

What is the decorative materials used in Hagia Sophia are made out of two combinations which are ?

Stylobate

What are the stone blocks or steps where the column stand and this is the lowest architectural feature of a Greek temple ?

Ballflower

What is a 13th and 14th century ornamentation that looks like a ball in a circular flower where the petals form a cup around it ?

Pylon

What is a massive masonry element as used on either side of the entrance . front of ancient Egyptian temples ?

Corner block/wooden block

- cap?

What is a wood block that forms as a junction on the head and side strip of the door trim or window trim ?

Orchestra

In Greek theater it is the round space in front of the stage and below the front seat . This is reserved for the chorus or musicians . This space is known as

Medallion

What is a circular or oval frame having within it an ornamental motif ?

Pablo Picasso

Who is the artist who did Three Musicians in Summer 1921 ?

Sail

What is a vault of flattened curvature forming ceiling of an interior space ?

Portiere

What is a curtain hung at the sides of a doorway or other opening and then drawn across ?