ARCH 249 Final Exam and Answers.
cantilever - Answer a long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used chiefly in
bridge construction.
bracket (duo gong system) - Answer is a unique structural element of interlocking wooden
brackets, one of the most important elements in traditional Chinese architecture.
Buddhist temple hall - Answer
pagoda - Answer a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower,
in India and East Asia.
Shinto - Answer a Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the
worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power ( kami ) in both animate
and inanimate things. It was the state religion of Japan until 1945.
kami - Answer a divine being in the Shinto religion.
torii - Answer the gateway of a Shinto shrine, with two uprights and two crosspieces.
abbey - Answer the building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns.
alternate support system - Answer The use of alternating wall support in the nave, usually
piers and columns.
ambulatory - Answer a place for walking, especially an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a
church or monastery.
barrel vault - Answer a vault forming a half cylinder
belfry - Answer a bell tower or steeple housing bells, especially one that is part of a church.
campanile - Answer an Italian bell tower, especially a freestanding one.
Carolingian - Answer of or relating to the Frankish dynasty, founded by Charlemagne's father
(Pepin III), that ruled in western Europe from 750 to 987.
, Charlemagne - Answer King of the Franks. He united most of Western Europe during the early
Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany.
choir - Answer he area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church
choir. It is in the western part of the chancel between the nave and the sanctuary which houses
the altar and Church tabernacle.
cloister - Answer a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a
wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other.
cloister vault - Answer is a vault with four concave surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a
point above the center of the vault.
colonnette - Answer a small or thin column or shaft
diagonal ribs - Answer one of the ribs in a groined arch springing from the corners in a
diagonal direction.
diaphragm arch - Answer a transverse wall-bearing arch forming a partial wall dividing a vault
or a ceiling into compartments.
groin vault - Answer s produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.
Holy Roman Empire - Answer A major political institution in Europe that lasted from the ninth
to the nineteenth centuries. It was loosely organized and modeled somewhat on the ancient
Roman Empire. It included great amounts of territory in the central and western parts of
Europe. Charlemagne was its first emperor.
horseshoe arch - Answer an arch with the intrados widening above the springing and then
narrowing to a rounded crown
lintel - Answer a horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door
or window.
Lombard bands - Answer a decorative blind arcade, usually located on the exterior of building.
It was frequently used during the Romanesque and Gothic periods of Western architecture.
cantilever - Answer a long projecting beam or girder fixed at only one end, used chiefly in
bridge construction.
bracket (duo gong system) - Answer is a unique structural element of interlocking wooden
brackets, one of the most important elements in traditional Chinese architecture.
Buddhist temple hall - Answer
pagoda - Answer a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower,
in India and East Asia.
Shinto - Answer a Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the
worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power ( kami ) in both animate
and inanimate things. It was the state religion of Japan until 1945.
kami - Answer a divine being in the Shinto religion.
torii - Answer the gateway of a Shinto shrine, with two uprights and two crosspieces.
abbey - Answer the building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns.
alternate support system - Answer The use of alternating wall support in the nave, usually
piers and columns.
ambulatory - Answer a place for walking, especially an aisle around the apse or a cloister in a
church or monastery.
barrel vault - Answer a vault forming a half cylinder
belfry - Answer a bell tower or steeple housing bells, especially one that is part of a church.
campanile - Answer an Italian bell tower, especially a freestanding one.
Carolingian - Answer of or relating to the Frankish dynasty, founded by Charlemagne's father
(Pepin III), that ruled in western Europe from 750 to 987.
, Charlemagne - Answer King of the Franks. He united most of Western Europe during the early
Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany.
choir - Answer he area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church
choir. It is in the western part of the chancel between the nave and the sanctuary which houses
the altar and Church tabernacle.
cloister - Answer a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a
wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other.
cloister vault - Answer is a vault with four concave surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a
point above the center of the vault.
colonnette - Answer a small or thin column or shaft
diagonal ribs - Answer one of the ribs in a groined arch springing from the corners in a
diagonal direction.
diaphragm arch - Answer a transverse wall-bearing arch forming a partial wall dividing a vault
or a ceiling into compartments.
groin vault - Answer s produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.
Holy Roman Empire - Answer A major political institution in Europe that lasted from the ninth
to the nineteenth centuries. It was loosely organized and modeled somewhat on the ancient
Roman Empire. It included great amounts of territory in the central and western parts of
Europe. Charlemagne was its first emperor.
horseshoe arch - Answer an arch with the intrados widening above the springing and then
narrowing to a rounded crown
lintel - Answer a horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door
or window.
Lombard bands - Answer a decorative blind arcade, usually located on the exterior of building.
It was frequently used during the Romanesque and Gothic periods of Western architecture.
