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Architecture
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- 1What is architecture?The art or science of building/construction.
- 2What were the earliest forms of architecture?The Ancient societies (eg Romans, Greeks, Egyptiasn) building places of worship.
- 3What were the earliest building materials?Bone, stone, wood, mud, cement and plants (eg grasses or vegetable fibres.)
- 4What were the earliest techniques for supporting a roof?Corbelling, post and lintel and dome on rotunda.
- 5What is reinforced concrete?concrete in which metal bars or wire is embedded to increase its strength
- 6What is post and lintel?Where a horizontal member is supported by two vertical posts at either end.
- 7What is corbelling?Offsetting successive courses of stone at the springline, until the courses meet at the apex of the archway.
- 8What is a dome?The hollow uppere half of a sphere as a roof which is supported by cylindrical walls.
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- Mid term exams Art Flashcards on Architecture, created by sophia.thompson on 04/05/2014.
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