STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS IN ARCHITECTURE
Load-Bearing Construction
Post-and-Lintel Construction
Round Arch and Vault
Pointed Arch and Vault
Dome
Corbelled Arch and Dome
Cast-Iron Construction
Balloon-Frame Construction
Steel-Frame Construction
Suspension
Reinforced Concrete
Geodesic Domes
PURPOSES OF ARCHITECTURE
Three Museums
Three Office Buildings
Three Dwellings
RECENT DIRECTIONS: GREEN ARCHITECTUREArtists: Frank Lloyd Wright
Artists: Samuel Mockbee Key Terms- adobe
- architrave
- Art Deco
- bays
- buttresses
- cantilever
- capital
- coffered
- Corinthian
- cornice
- Doric
- drum
- entablature
- ferroconcrete
- flying buttresses
- frieze
- Gothic
- groin vault
- hypostyle
- Ionic
- International Style
- keystone
- lintel
- minarets
- oculus
- orders
- pediment
- pendentive
- piers
- portico
- Romanesque
- rotunda
- tensile strength
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