Chapter Thirteen
Architecture
THINGS TO KNOW:
Tensile strength
Load-bearing construction
Adobe
Post-and-lintel
Capital
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Roman Arch
Romanesque
Keystone
Gothic
Buttress, flying buttress, pier
Cast-iron construction
Balloon-frame construction
Steel-frame construction
International style
Suspension
Reinforced conctet
Geodesic dome
Buckminster Fuller
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Cantilever
Rural Studio
Samuel Mockbee
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Great Friday Mosque Mali, 1907 Load-Bearing Construction
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Greek Orders |
Byodo-In Temple Japan, 1053 |
Pont du Gard France, 1st Century, A.D. Roman arch |
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Sainte-Foy Cathedral France, 1120 Romanesque |
Reims Cathedral France, 1290 Gothic |
Reims Interior Stained Glass |
Buttress Flying Butress Pier |
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Pantheon Rome, 125A.D. Concrete with stone veneer |
Pantheon Interior |
Parthenon Acropolis, Athens Greece 432 B.C., Doric |
Parthenon Nashville, Tennessee, 1900
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Nashville Parthenon |
Taj Mahal India, 1653 Islamic |
Eiffel Tower Paris, France, 1889 Cast-Iron |
Wainwright Building St. Louis, Missouri, 1891 Louis Sullivan
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Lever House NYC, 1952 International Style |
Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco, 1937 Suspension |
Sydney Opera House Australia, 1972 Reinforced Concrete |
Geodesic Dome Montreal, Canada, 1967 R. Buckminster Fuller |
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National Gallery of Art West Bldg. Washington, DC, 1941 |
Chrysler Bldg. NYC, 1930 Art Deco |
Fallingwater Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936 Frank Lloyd Wright |
Rural Studio Project Alabama Samuel Mockbee |
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Bryant House |
Lucy House
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Antioch Baptist Church |
Samuel Mockbee 1944-2001 |