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Architecture Vocabulary Exam Queasy and Correct Answers (Already Passed) Architecture - Answers the art of designing buildings Architect - Answers a person who designs buildings Blueprint - Answers the drawings an architect does of a building Plan View - Answers The top view drawing, looking do...

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Architecture Vocabulary Exam Queasy and Correct Answers (Already Passed)

Architecture - Answers the art of designing buildings

Architect - Answers a person who designs buildings

Blueprint - Answers the drawings an architect does of a building

Plan View - Answers The top view drawing, looking down on a building

Elevation View - Answers The side view, looking at the side of the building

Scale - Answers a standard by which something can be measured

Construction - Answers the act of building

Load Bearing - Answers The walls carry the load, weight, of the building

Structural - Answers A structure of wood, iron, ext. carry the load, weight of the building

Curtain Wall - Answers a non-load-bearing wall which hangs on a framed structure

Post - Answers Upright support in a building, a column

Lintel - Answers a horizontal beam across the top of an opening in a building

Capital - Answers the top of a post, or column, often carved

Counter Balance - Answers to have an equal weight at the end to hold up the unsupported end

Cantilever - Answers a horizontal beam that sticks out with no support under the end that sticks out

Arch - Answers a curved structural element spanning an opening and serves as support

Roman Arch - Answers a round arch

Gothic Arch - Answers a pointed arch

keystone - Answers center stone in an arch, holds it together, last stone to go in place

Buttress - Answers a solid stone projection perpendicular out from a wall which supports the roof

Flying Buttress - Answers an open arched stone projection perpendicular out from a wall which supports
the roof

Vault - Answers a space covered by a straight row of arches

Dome - Answers Arches in a circle, a hemispherical roof or ceiling

Pediment - Answers a low-pitched triangle, sometimes over doors and windows

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