Architecture II Midterm Review
History of Architecture:
English Influence In America (A.D. 1608 - Present)
Slide 1
What is this type of chimney?
Answer: Buttressed Chimney
Slide 2
What style of architecture is this structure and what
type of construction?
Answer: Seventeenth-Century English Medieval Style, and Brick,
Stone, Timber with Daub and Wattle or Nogging, and Clapboard Siding.
Slide 3
What is this type of pitched roof?
Answer: Steeply Pitched Gabel Roof
Slide 4
What is this type of chimney?
Answer: Columned Chimney
Slide 5
What is this type of window called?
Answer: Small Casement Windows with Leaded Panes
Slide 6
What style of architecture is this structure and what
type of construction?
Answer: Early Georgian as a two-story rectangular block, built of
brick, clapboard, or stone, symmetrical façade with five or more
bays, hipped roof (gabled or gambrel roof optional), often with
dormer windows, tall end chimney, sash windows, pediment with
pilasters at doorway or windows (optional)
Slide 7
What is this architectural feature called separating the
first story from the second?
Answer: Stringcourse or Beltcourse
Slide 8
What is this architectural feature called?
Answer: Cupola
Slide 9
What is this architectural feature called?
Answer: Balustrade or Railing
Slide 10
What is this corner architectural feature called?
Answer: Quoins
Slide 11
What is this under the eaves architectural feature called?
Answer: Cornice with Dentils
Slide 12
What style of architecture is this structure?
Answer: Late Georgian
Slide 13
What is this two story wall projecting architectural
feature called?
Answer: Projecting Pavilion or Breakfront
Slide 14
What is this architectural feature called?
Answer: Small Portico over doorway
Slide 15
What is this type of window called?
Answer: Palladian Windows
Slide 16
What is this architectural feature called?
Answer: Doorways with Roundheaded Fanlights, bracketed Cornices,
or Pilasters and Pediments
Slide 17
What is this architectural feature called?
Answer: Crown Lintels
Slide 18
What is this architectural window called?
Answer: Sash Windows
Slide 19
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Federal Style and Five-bay, three-story, box-shaped façade
of brick, stucco, or clapboard, smaller windows on upper story
Slide 20
What is this architectural feature called?
Answer: doorway with fanlights and sidelights
Slide 21
Which type of roof is this?
Answer: Flattened Hipped roof with shallow eves
Slide 22
What style of architecture is this structure and its
indicators other than doorways and siding?
Answer: Vernacular Tradition, and Small half-three quarter-full size
house, one or some two-story versions with gabled roofs and sash
windows directly under the eaves
Slide 23
What is unique about the vernacular style doorway?
Answer: Doorway with simplifies pilasters and entablature
Slide 24
What type of siding and eaves are of the Vernacular
Tradition?
Answer: Shingle or Clapboard Siding with Shallow Eaves
Slide 25
What style of architecture is this and overall appearance
or emphasis?
Answer: Greek Revival / American Empire Style, depicting bold forms
or strength by using Greek Temple forms and pediments with gable
end oriented toward the front
Slide 26
What architectural feature is predominate in Greek
Revival/American Empire and what types of windows
are commonly used?
Answer: Second story Portico and colonnades with with two-story
Greek columns (some Roman Tuscan), Sash Windows
Slide 27
Name and describe the Greek Revival doorway?
Answer: Door openings with oblong transoms or flanked with
pilasters and crowned with an entablature
Slide 28
What type of architecture are these structures?
Answer: Victorian Design
Slide 29
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Italianate Style, and low pitched hipped or gabled roofs,
wide overhanging cornices with large brackets, belvedere, square
tower (optional), round headed windows (optional), classical details
such as modillions and pediments.
Slide 30
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Egyptian Revival, and not philosophically used for
residential design, sed for prisons and churches, slopping walls and
wide cornices.
Slide 31
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Gothic Revival, and steeply pitched roofs, Parapets or
battlements, towers, stone or vertical wood siding, pointed gothic
and flattened Tudor arches, and leaded pane windows
Slide 32
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Mansard Style and mansard roof crested with a low,
wrought-iron railing, dormer windows that rest on or break through
the line of the eaves, and Quoins (optional)
Slide 33
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Oriental Revival and pointed and horseshoe Moorish arches
used for doorways, windows, and porches, with bulbous onion
domes used to crown towers or belvederes
Slide 34
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Stick Style and Victorian version of Late English Medieval
house with steep gables, stick work pattering applied to represent
vertical, diagonal, and horizontal timber construction, and jetties or
overhangs
Slide 35
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Queen Ann Style and a variety of surface embellishments
and strong horizontal lines or bands, gable and steep-hipped
rooflines, turrets, rounded gazebos and moon gate arches as part of
the veranda, with some use of stained glass
Slide 36
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Shingle Style and covered with shingles, and small paned
windows
Slide 37
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are its characteristics?
Answer: German / Pennsylvania Dutch Design and large, simple,
rectangular construction, built of roughly finished fieldstone or brick,
transoms over front door, sash windows, gable or gambrel roofs,
pentroof and a cantilevered triangular portico (optional).
Slide 38
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are its characteristics?
Answer: Dutch Design and made of stone, brick, or clapboard,
gambrel roof with a line that breaks near the ridge, flaring eaves that
give the roof a bell shape, sash windows and doors
Slide 39
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are its characteristics?
Answer: French Design and a galerie, French doors, French
windows, bonnet roof with sometimes dormer windows, and
frequently built over a raided basement
Slide 40
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are its characteristics?
Answer: Southwest Adobe Design and thick, irregular, adobe walls
with round corners, mud colored stucco exterior wall finish, deep-set
windows and doors, vigas, flat roofs, portals with wooden posts and
lintels decorated with carved corbels called zapatas
Slide 41
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Monterey Design with two stories, hipped or gabled roof of
tile or shingles, second-story balcony, cantilevered or supported with
posts, sash windows, and generally stucco covered
Slide 42
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Spanish Missions, depicting vernacular designs
incorporating Spanish details contributed by missionary priests,
together with local materials and construction methods employed by
the indigenous peoples
Slide 43
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: California Ranch House, flat-roofed structures built of
adobe, but soon gave way to the low-pitched, gabled, red tile roof,
generally not enclosed with a walled court but open and rambling
with covered porch running the length of the house
Slide 44
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Swedish Influence, Log Cabin
Slide 45
What style of architecture is this structure and what are
its characteristics?
Answer: Beaux Arts Influence according to style of the building such
as French Renaissance, Late Medieval (Tudor) style, Italian
Renaissance, Dutch Colonial, Spanish, Gothic and so forth
Slide 46
What type of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Skyscrapers with the weight of the building being carried on
a steal skeleton reaching incredible heights
Slide 47
What type of architecture are these structures?
Answer: Modern Architecture
Slide 48
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Organic Design using materials that harmonize with nature
and the setting with a well established relationship from the inside of
the house to the outdoors, and a flexible floor plan.
Slide 49
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: International Style with an open floor plan, simple, logical,
rectilinear structural forms, generally flat roofed, asymmetrical, large
areas of glass, use of concrete, stucco, and metal, long,
uninterrupted white wall planes, contrasts with setting.
Slide 50
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Art Deco with rigid geometric forms, zigzags, chevron
designs, stepped pyramid forms, stylized billows of clouds, and
stylized human and animal forms in metals, smooth cut stone or
marble, and etched mirrors and glass, typically skyscrapers and
government buildings
Slide 51
What type of trend in architecture are these structures?
Answer: Contemporary
Slide 52
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: High-Tech with structural members left exposed on exterior
and interior designed for industrial use
Slide 53
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Post-Modern show updated classical elements with a
decidedly modern twist of columns, pediments, domes, and arches,
often in a simplified or stylized form borrowing art deco style
Slide 54
What style of architecture are these structures and what
are their characteristics?
Answer: Deconstructivism using raw materials to show instability,
confilict, and disharmony using raw materials like corrugated steel
plywood, and chipboard