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ARCH 2315 Exam 2 Review
• The Review images and informa;on are forma<ed to fit 3x5 note cards.
• Print the review by choosing the op;on to print 6 per page, and you’ll have the images and informa;on ready to make notecards.
• The slides are numbered consecu;vely in order to help you arrange them in proper order.
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ARCH 2315 Exam 2 Review
• Exam 2 will follow the format of Exam 1.
• You must iden;fy sites and buildings and write short and long essays.
• You must iden;fy the images exactly as they are indicated in this review.
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St. Peter’s, From the Nolli Map of Rome, 1748
Centralized plan, Michelangelo, 1546
Nave and facade, Carlo Maderno,1606
Piazza Retta and Piazza Obliqua Bernini, 1657
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Urn depositing waste produced by the salt-refining process.An example ofArchitecture ParlanteChaux Saltworks1775Claude Nicholas Ledoux
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The use of devices such as light, painting, ornament to obscure the structure of an interior in order to give an
ethereal [look it up] quality to a space.
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Directional device, such as an avenue or boulevardIn an oval, there is a short axis, indicating a secondary
direction.
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Directional device at an angle to the main axis, creating multiple axes and thus emphasizing to greater degree the
terminus of movement or a sight line. Viewed from the terminal point, the diagonal and straight axes offer multiple
choices for experiencing the landscape or urbanscape. Note examples of Rome, Versaille, and Washington, DC.
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Rough-surfaced masonry blocks, having beveled or rebated edges and pronounced joints. Commonly used
on the ground floor of buildings. During the mannerist and neo-classical periods, rustication was used also on
selected elements and motifs, for example, columns, door and window architraves, and arches.
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1.Concantenation: the building up of parts to the center.2.Sense of movement, energy, tension.3.Chiaroscuro (key-ra-skew-row): strong contrasts of light and shadow, without regard to color.4.Dematerializatioin of Space: the use of devices such as light, painting, ornament to obscure thestructure of an interior in order to give an ethereal [look it up] quality to a space
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1. Rejection of fluid, Baroque forms and a search for simple, expressive tectonics2. Emphasis on bold horizontal profiles3. Massing of elements in cubic and rectangular form4. Emphasis on stereotomy, the cutting of stone
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Study Questions:
First: Do NOT assume that I will “know what you mean.” Be specific in both your explanations of ‘spear’ and of your formal analysis.
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1. What is the architectural and liturgical significance of St. Stephen’s, Walbrook?2. Can you make a succinct and clear formal analysis of the buildings, landscapes, and cityscapes we have covered in class? 3. Can you compare Sixtus V’s plan for Rome to Versailles and Washington D.C. as a progression through time of the appropriation and transformation of both form and symbol?4. Using “Vitruvain Man” and “Cartesian Man” as ‘manifestations’ of their respective periods, can you explain the transformation of worldviews from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment? 5. Can you name the major authors and their writings that provided the foundation for the Enlightenment?6. What is the significance of Laugier’s Primitive Hut?7. Can you explain how and why the French rejected the Italian Baroque? Use specific examples of buildings.8. St. Paul’s Cathedral, by Wren, is both structurally conservative and innovative. Explain this statement, then explain how Renaissance classicism adapted (again) as it moved into England.9. Can you compare Bernini’s proposal for the Louvre to Perrault’s?10. What is the significance of Soufflot’s St. Genevieve, aka ‘the Pantheon’?11. Can you explain mercantile capitalism?12. Can you explain how mercantile capitalism differs from the Medieval social order?13. What is “neo” about Neo-classicism?
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14. Using Gondoin’s school of surgery as an example, can you explain how neo-classicism is a manifestation of the Enlightenment?15. Traditionally, when do we date the beginning of the Renaissance? Of the Enlightenment?16. Can you name and explain the formal characteristics of the Baroque and the French Neo-Classical?17. Do you know the terms in this study review and can you use them correctly in a formal analysis?18. Can you define “appropriation” as it applies to ancient buildings types during the Baroque and Neo-Classical periods?19. Can you explain the Enlightenment as a period in which ‘systemization and categorization’ became important? What were the major writings that led to these ideas? Can you site examples of how Enlightenment architects incorporated this idea in their work?20. What is the significance of Ledoux’s work at Chaux?21. What is the significance of Ledoux’s work on the Barrier’s of Paris?22. What is the significance of Gondoin’s School of Surgery?23. What is the significance of a comparison among Sixtus V’s plan for Rome, Le Notre’s garden plan for Louis XIV’s Versailles, and L’Enfant’s plan of Washington, DC?25. Can you explain the French rejection of the Baroque?26. What is meant by the phrase “the secularization of the Baroque”?
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