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According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Rome, roman builders used a volcanic ash know as pozzolana which proved to be far superior to that of lime mortar. Ancient Roman concrete was called pozzolana The central core of Egret’s Castle is the donjon According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Rome, the precursor to the Italian Piazza, the Spanish Plaza and North American Square was the round table Seating at the Colosseum was raised atop masonry vaults Roman baths included a: frigidarium, natation, caldarium, and tepidarium A traditional Beijing house made use of: lateral rooms for children and guests, a series of courts, a central axis, a range of front servants’ rooms The Temple of Diana in Nîmes is unusual in having an interior space barrel-vaulted Ise Shrine roofs include Katsuogi, which are tapered wooden logs According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Rome, the layered squares seen in Panini’s painting of the interior of the Pantheon are called coﬀers which, beyond creating depth and visual interest to the curvature of the dome, significantly reduce the overall weight of the building. According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on China and Japan, the Forbidden City in Beijing is the clearest example of an application of a diagram which creates what some scholars call a “holy ﬁeld” organizing material space with cosmic space. Domitian’s Palace in Rome is located on the Palatine Hill Module 3 According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Medieval and Romanesque architecture, the baptistery at Piza is a simple cylindrical volume which at about 180 feet high, 116 feet in diameter, makes it the largest Baptistery in Italy. The play with space and light as well as the shift in decoration to pointed register over the openings, is a distinct transition to Gothic. Sculpture in the west-front tympanum at St. Lazare in Autun depicts the last judgement A Külliye is a vast complex with multiple functions adjacent to a mosque In a Byzantine church, an iconostasis is a screen dividing the nave from the chancel A bazaar is a street linking merchants’ stalls and small shops According to Professor Kara’s lecture on Islamic architecture, while mosques were the center of religion, they also served other functions of society to include markets, higher education, and cemetery According to Professor Kara’s lecture on Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, the most signiﬁcant example of Christian architecture that combined the domed roof with the basilica plan was Hagia Soﬁa According to Professor Kara’s lecture on Islamic architecture, the Great Mosque at Cordoba incorporates an open courtyard with a domed fountain primarily for the ritual of cleansing before the prayer and social interaction The Great Mosque at Cordoba includes arches atop columns, horseshoe-shaped arches, polychrome arches, and stacked arches Masonry at the Baptistry of the Orthodox in Ravenna displays the work of Lombard craftsmen

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