ART 110 Final Exam

A wedge shaped stne block used in the construction of an arch.

In a latin cors plan, the area above the triforium in the elevation of the nave, which contains windows to provide direct lighting for the nave.

The wedge shaped stone put in the center of an arch to keep it together.

A hemispheral structure that is round when viewed from beneath.

In architecture, a spherical triangle that fills the wall space b.w the four arches of a groind vault in order to provide a circular base on which a dome may rest.

In architecture, a columnlike support with a rectilinear rather than cylindrical profile. piers generally support arches.

A rigid, traiangular frame used for spporting structures such as roofs and bridges.

In architecture, a wooden skeleton of a building constructed from prefeabricated studs and nails.

a hard alloy of iron caontaining silicon and coaron that is made by casting.

In architecture, to build beforehand at a factory rather than building at a site.

A method of building that capitalizes on the strenght of steel by picing together slender steel beams to orm the skeleton of a structure.

The form of an objects design must support its function.

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A strong cable composed of multiple intertwined stell wires.

The earlierst and simplest oof the greek architectural syles, cosisting of relatively short, squat columns, sometiems unfluted, and a simple, square shaped capital. the dorice frize is usually dividd into triglyphs and metopes.