Architectual Sites Ch7.1-8.2

What is this site?

Sant’ Apollinare

What is this site?

Great Mosque, Damascus

What is the name of this site?

Saint-Deni Basilica

What is this portals name

The last judgment

What is the name of this site?

Amiens Cathedral

What is the name of this site?

Sainte - Chapelle

What is the sites name?

Altneushchul (old new synagogue)

What is the name of the site?

Great mosque of cordoba

What is this? and from where is it from?

Its a hypostle hall and its from the great mosque of cordoba

What is the cites name? and what is crepissage?

Great mosque of Djenne and crepissage is a ritual maintenance to the exterior of the building

What is the name and what is an Iwan

Masjid-i-Shad, And an iwan is a dead end wall

What are muquarnas

Honeycomb moldings on the roof that make the transition from arches to squares more smooth

What is the name of this? and if its not a mosque than what is it?

The Taj-Mahal, and its a burial ground for an empress

Key text: Ibn jubary is about?

His pilgrimage to mecca

what is this place?

Capella palatina, Palazo

What is the name of this site?

Hagia Sophia, Constantinople

Where is this located into?

Hagia Sophia

What is this site?

Suleymaniye Mosque

What is this?

Muquarnas

What is this site?

Citadel and Walled City, Cairo, 10th-15th centuries

what is it?

Wikala al-Ghuri, Cairo, Egypt, 1504-1505 CE

What is Caravanserai?

an inn for travelers and traders across the Middle East and North Africa, typically organized around a central courtyard

What is the name of this site?

Piazza del Campo and Palazzo Pubblico

Three part plan reflects structure of the city

counci

• Left – residence of the Podesta

• Center – offices and council rooms

• Right – apartments for the Nine

Key Text: Leon Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria, (published posthumously 1485)

Alberti was a scholar, artist, architect, philosopher, priest in

Renaissance Italy. His Alberti’s De re aedificatoria (On the art of

building) is the first theoretical text on architecture written in the

Renaissance

What is the name of this site?

Leon Battista Alberti, Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy,

What does Leon Battista Alberti Design do?

His design tackles the problem of unifying a prior gothic structure with a classicizing façade

What are the parts of the Temple front

What is this classical order?

Doric order

What is the classical order?

Ionic order

What is the classical order?

Corinthian order

What is the name of the site?

Andrea Palladio, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy, 1560-1610

What is this?

Interior view of nave, San Giorgio Maggiore

What is the name of this site?

Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy, 1638-1641 CE

What is this place?

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

What is the site?

Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, 1446-1451, Florence, Italy

The Palazzo Rucellai was built for whom?

Alberti patron Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai and his family

What is the name of the site?

Andrea Palladio, Villa Barbaro, Maser, Italy, 1557-1558

What are the descriptions of the Villla Barbaro?

• Built for brothers Daniele and Marcantonio Barbaro

• Multi-functional building combining practical spaces for farming with elegant residence

• Makes unusual move of using temple form for residential architecture

Where is this located at?

Villa Barbaro

What is the name of this site?

Andrea Palladio, Villa Capra “La Rotonda,” Vicenza, Italy, 1566-70

Which retired priest was this made for?

Paolo Almerico

Where is this site from?

La Rotonda

What is this site from?

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta, Il Gesù, 1568-1580 CE, Rome, Italy

What is this site?

St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City (Rome), Italy, begun 1506, completed 1621

Who was St. Peter’s Basilica commisioned by?

Commissioned by Pope Julius II in

1506

What does St. Peter’s Basilica plan combines?

Final plan combines High

Renaissance ideal of centralized plan

with practical advantages of basilica

plan and dramatic visual language of

Baroque architecture

Where is this from?

St. Peters Basilica

What is the name of this site?

The Palace of Versailles

Key Text: Leon Battista Alberti, On the art of building

15th-century architectural treatise that systematized classical Roman principles—such as proportion, symmetry, and harmony—and applied humanist theory to architecture, becoming the foundational text of Renaissance architectural practice.

What is the name of the site?

Teotihuacan

The architectural feature pictured at right is known as:

Talud-Tablero

What is the name of the site?

Chichén Itzá, [Mexico], 8th–12th century

Mayan architecture as a device of some sorts?

Mayan architecture as ritual time-keeping device

Tawantinsuyu is?

“The four regions together.”

What is the site called?

Qosqo [Cusco, Peru], from 13th century

The four roads that meet in Cusco’s

Huacaypata (Central Plaza)

What is the name of this site?

Machu-Pichu

Machu-Pichu is a?

A royal estate for the first Inka emperor, Pachacuti Inka Yupanqui

What is this site?

Qorikancha, Cusco

What is the Tambo?

structure along roads for storage supply, temporary lodging, and accounting records

What is the Huaca?

Sacred site, Landscape feature, or shrine

Pedro Sancho, “Description of the City of Cuzco” (1556 CE)

Sancho records events of these years in his account of the Spanish conquest of Peru

What is the name of this site?

Tenochtitlan/Mexico City, [Mexico]

Where was Mexico City established?

Atop the ruins of Tenochtitlan.

Spanish planning guided by “The Laws of the indies”

a set of rules laid out by the spanish crown to govern the process of colonization

What is the name of this site?

Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus, Arequipa, Peru

Which church is the oldest in Arequipa?

Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus

Iglesia de la compania de Jesus was a reinterpretation of ?

European models by local artisans, using indigenous techniques and motifs

What is this place called?

Zhuozheng-yuan (The Humble Administrator’s Garden)

Design premised on balance of opposing features:

Water and hills, Light and Dark, Nature and Structure

What do Liberati themes and values expressed in the garden?

• Appreciation of nature

• Moral focus on self cultivation

• simplicity

• Peaceful, Humble, Quiet and meditative mindset

garden in chinese?

Yuanlin

What is the name of this?

Stowe House, Stowe, ENgland

What is Picturesque?

• Asymmetry

• Variety

• light and dark

• smooth and rough surface

• Natural and artificial structures

• Focal point that guides the eye back and forth across the landscape

• Harmonious integration of various elements

What do these pictures show?

A “chinese pavillion” and Pavilions and “follies”

What is the name of the site?

Xiyang Lou, Yuanmingyuan

Definition of Tianxia

All under heaven

What is the name of this site?

The Great Town of boston in New England

What is the name of the site?

United States Capitol

What is the name of the site?

Monticello

What is the name of the?

Royal Saltworks, Arc-et-Senans

Whats is the name of the site?

The Crystal Palace

What is the name of the site?

Houses of Parliament and Palace of Westminster

What is the name of the site?

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus

What is the name of the site?

Bauhaus School

What is the name of the site?

Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin

What is the name of this site

Brasilia

Name the axis

Monumental Axis, Residential Axis

What is the name of this site?

Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water

What is the name of this?

National Congress Building, Oscar Niemeyer

What is the name of this site?

Tadao Ando, Honpuku-ji “Water Temple,” Awaji Island

What is the name of this site?

Guggenheim

What is the name of this site?

Burkina Institute Of Technology

Palazzo

Large urban residence of wealthy merchant families, symbolizing civic power

Villa

Country estate combining agriculture, leisure, and classical design ideals.

Humanism

Renaissance belief emphasizing classical learning, human potential, and rational design.

Baroque

Architectural style emphasizing movement, drama, ornament, and emotional impact.

Basilica

Longitudinal church plan derived from Roman civic buildings.

Nave

Central aisle of a church where the congregation gathers.