Vocabulary 3

Architecture 200 with Moore at Ohio State University - All Campuses

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By: Katie Ashbaugh
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Ideas of Order: A Formal Approach to Architecture

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History
Created: 2011-11-08
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Antiquities Act

authorized the president to to set aside by proclamation, as a national monument, any area of historic or scientific importance on land already controlled or owned by the US approved June 8, 1906

architecture parlante

speaking architecture; architecture whose form is a direct expression of its content

Baroque

a style developed in sixteenth century Italy, characterized by multiplicity of centers, exaggerated pictorial, ornamental, and scenographic effects, the bold use of light, the dynamic interplay of forms and masses, and complex columnar rhythms

casino

a small garden house

dematerialization

reduction of mass in the wall the tendency or a wall to become skeletal rather than solid

Enlightenment

philosophy in the eighteenth century which initiated the questioning of political authority, the virtue of nature, scientific empiricism and rationalism

folly

a garden building meant to be looked at as part of the landscape rather than occupied

Grand tour

Neo-Classical time period after Baroque and going back to mathematical and scientific ideas; exploring antiquities of Greece and Rome

grotto

Italian for 'cave', a highly rusticated, cave-like space in a garden, often underground and containing water

Jeffersonian grid

a surveying project put into effect by Thomas Jefferson; a regular grid was laid over the un-colonized land of the United States to allow the surveying of unmapped territories

nympheum

an abode for nymphs, or a building or area in a garden with cool running water and foliage

obelisk

a tall sectioned shaft which tapers upwards and ends with a pyramid

piazza

a city square or figural void

picturesque

resembling a painting, visually charming or interesting

rustication

masonry with a rough surface finish

sublime

inspiring awe or lofty, immense, immeasureable, or unfathomable

tabula rasa

Latin for "blank slate"