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60 Cards in this Set
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Farnsworth House |
Ludwig Miles Van der Rohe |
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Glass House |
Phillip C. Johnson |
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Fredrick C. Robie residence |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Parthenon |
Athens, Greece |
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Hypostyle Hall |
Karnak, Egypt |
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Precinct at Ise, Japan |
4 fences, built every 20 years |
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Louvre |
I.M. Pei |
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Skara Brae |
Neolithic settlement, Orkney Islands, coast of Scotland |
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Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple |
Deir el Bahri |
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Stonehenge |
Neolithic England |
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Adobe |
sun dried brick made of clay |
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Crook Frame |
Curved timber, supports the roof "A" shape |
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Fujian |
SE China |
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Lascausx Cave |
Paleolithic wall paintings |
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Menhir |
Stand up |
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Transom |
above door, window |
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Cairn |
Lump of rocks |
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Catenary Arch |
upsidedown chain's |
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Dolmen |
Burial, Big rocks |
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Henge |
Circle of stones |
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Lintel |
Bearing in replace of transom |
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Oculus |
Apex of Dome |
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Vault |
... |
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Cantilever |
Overhangs, projects verticle support |
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Corbel |
Ghost Busters, on columns |
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Enfilade |
Straight arrangment |
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Khirokatia |
Preserved at Eastern Mediterrainean |
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LongHouse |
wood |
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Trabeated |
Post and Beam |
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Wattle and Daub |
African houses |
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Acropolis |
Parthenon's home |
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Clerestory |
Transom X2, on the walls for light |
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Hypostyle Hall |
Roof with columns usually in rows |
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Mastaba |
Egyptian tomb, 1/4 of a Pyramid |
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Pylon |
Tower that forms an entrance to Egyptian temples |
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Ziggurat |
Kinda like a pyramid, Multiple stories |
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Axis Mundi |
Heaven and Earth connection |
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Heb-Sed |
Ceremony to the rule of pharaoh |
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Impluvium |
Square hole in ceiling |
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Mohenjo-Daro |
Earliest major urban setlements, Indus Valley |
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Tell |
Accumulated remains of ancient civilizations, go tell it on the mountains over the hills.... |
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citidel |
fortress |
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Geomancy |
Divination (Supernatural) by geographical features |
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Ka |
Lives in body during life and survives after death |
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Obelisk |
Menhir with a pyramid on top |
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Temenos |
Piece of land dedicated to gods/kings |
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Akhenaten |
Egyptian king who moved from thebes to tell el Amarna |
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Glacis |
Slope for fortification |
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Megaron |
Square living place, with columns |
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Propylaea |
Entrance to a temple, Parthenon |
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Tholos |
Domed Tomb |
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Amarna Period |
Akhenaten and Nefertiti |
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Hatshepsut |
Queen of 18th century |
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Minoan |
Island of Crete, Artwork |
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Rameses II |
King of egypt, Rock temple at Abu Simbel; Floods |
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Tiryns |
Cyclopean wall's, rocks as a vault, fortress city |
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Dromos |
Racetrack, passagway into subterranian tomb |
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Ineny |
Pyramid trincket placed on private tombs |
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Mycenae |
S. Greece, Argolis |
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Senmut |
18th century architect/gov. official. Morturary temple of hatsheptsut |