Arch Hist 1301 Blinn Exam 1 Questions
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Coffer - ✔✔series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or
octagon in a ceiling.
India was developed on the ___ River - ✔✔Indus
Labyrinth - ✔✔any Maze-like structure with a single differentiating path
Pro-style - ✔✔A Temple plan with columns in front of the Cella only
Dentil (teeth-like pattern) - ✔✔Small, closely spaced rectangular blocks used to
decorate a Cornice (self-like ledge)
Pediment - ✔✔Triangular entablature
Bracket Set - ✔✔Elaborate, inter-locking supports in Chinese ARCH that
provides a roof over-hang.
Corbel - ✔✔Structural stone protruding from wall to bear weight
"Feng Shui" - ✔✔A religious claim that "using energy forces can harmonize
individuals with there surrounding environment"
A Garbhagriha is also known as a womb chamber. T/F? - ✔✔True
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, Doric "Abacus" (top) - ✔✔upper-most portion of a Doric Capital (column).
Above the 2. Echinus and .3 Necking.
Stoa - ✔✔Long, covered Greek Portico (columns) used as a public walkway
Heel Stone - ✔✔Single, large upright stone on the outside of Stonehenge (1200
x 1563)
Ionic "Volute" (spiral) - ✔✔Decorative scrolls in the "Capital" of an "Ionic
Column"
Live Loads - ✔✔vertical forces of gravity created by people, animals, and other
moving objects.
Zuggurat - ✔✔an ancient "Mesopotamian" rectangular-stepped tower,
sometimes surmounted by a temple.
Mortise - ✔✔the peg part, used in "mortise and tenon" joints.
Egypt was developed on the ____ River - ✔✔Nile
Kodo - ✔✔In Japanese Buddhist architecture, the name given to the "lecture
hall" of Toji Temple.
"Jian" house - ✔✔a module (style) used in Chinese wooden houses, (measuring
12 ft x 20 ft.)
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Coffer - ✔✔series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or
octagon in a ceiling.
India was developed on the ___ River - ✔✔Indus
Labyrinth - ✔✔any Maze-like structure with a single differentiating path
Pro-style - ✔✔A Temple plan with columns in front of the Cella only
Dentil (teeth-like pattern) - ✔✔Small, closely spaced rectangular blocks used to
decorate a Cornice (self-like ledge)
Pediment - ✔✔Triangular entablature
Bracket Set - ✔✔Elaborate, inter-locking supports in Chinese ARCH that
provides a roof over-hang.
Corbel - ✔✔Structural stone protruding from wall to bear weight
"Feng Shui" - ✔✔A religious claim that "using energy forces can harmonize
individuals with there surrounding environment"
A Garbhagriha is also known as a womb chamber. T/F? - ✔✔True
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, Doric "Abacus" (top) - ✔✔upper-most portion of a Doric Capital (column).
Above the 2. Echinus and .3 Necking.
Stoa - ✔✔Long, covered Greek Portico (columns) used as a public walkway
Heel Stone - ✔✔Single, large upright stone on the outside of Stonehenge (1200
x 1563)
Ionic "Volute" (spiral) - ✔✔Decorative scrolls in the "Capital" of an "Ionic
Column"
Live Loads - ✔✔vertical forces of gravity created by people, animals, and other
moving objects.
Zuggurat - ✔✔an ancient "Mesopotamian" rectangular-stepped tower,
sometimes surmounted by a temple.
Mortise - ✔✔the peg part, used in "mortise and tenon" joints.
Egypt was developed on the ____ River - ✔✔Nile
Kodo - ✔✔In Japanese Buddhist architecture, the name given to the "lecture
hall" of Toji Temple.
"Jian" house - ✔✔a module (style) used in Chinese wooden houses, (measuring
12 ft x 20 ft.)
2|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
