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January Birthdays
04--Marsden Hartley, 1877
10--Barbara Hepworth, 1903
11--Alexander Calder, 1898
14--Berthe Morisot, 1841
19--Paul Cezanne, 1839
Clementine Hunter, 1887
Cindy Sherman, 1954
26--Barbara Kruger, 1945
28--Alice Neel, 1900
Richmond Barthe, 1901
Depressed Housing According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Tom Parker's Rules of Thumb, when you are planning a house, make the angle of the roof noticeably more or noticeably less than a right angle; otherwise, the appearance is depressing. Figurehead figurehead, carved decoration usually representing a head or figure placed under the bowsprit of a ship. The art is of extreme antiquity. Ancient galleys and triremes carried rostrums, or beaks, on the bow to ram enemy vessels. designs, SchoolArts, January, 1927 These faces, made from the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/9, 7, 8, and 0, were drawn by the seventh and eighth grade classes of the Roosevelt School Roosevelt School is a common name for schools. It can refer to the following properties on the National Register of Historic Places:
Tree House If you were given the chance to design a treehouse for the kids in your neighborhood, what would you do to make it stand out? Dream House If you could build a new home, where would you want it to be? What would you want it to look like? Looking Ahead "The architect must be a prophet ... a prophet in the true sense of the term ... if he can't see at least ten years ahead, don't call him an architect." --Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. (March 30,1890, Oak Park, Illinois – May 31, 1978, Santa Monica, California), commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American architect who did most of his work in Southern California. Looking to Nature "Go to nature, thou builder of houses, consider her ways...Let your house appear to grow easily from its site and shape it to sympathize with the surroundings." --Frank Lloyd Wright Trade Talk Architects use a vocabulary that is not a part of most people's everyday language. How well would you do in understanding these terms if you were conversing with an architect? Match the definition with the term. Term 1. pediment pediment, in architecture, the triangular gable end on a building of classic type or a similar form used decoratively. It consists of the tympanum, or triangular wall surface, enclosed below by the horizontal cornice and above by the raking cornice, which follows the 2. loggia loggia Hall, gallery, or porch open to the air on one or more sides. It evolved in the Mediterranean region as an open sitting room with protection from the sun. It is often a roofed, arcaded open gallery on an upper story overlooking a court, though it can also be a 3. keystone 4. facade 5. colonnade colonnade (kŏlənād`), a row of columns usually supporting a roof. Colonnades were popular with the Greeks and Romans, who employed them in the stoa and the portico; they have continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, the 6. buttress 7. vault 8. capital Definition a. the front of a building b. upper part of a column c. central block in an arch d. set of columns at regular intervals e. triangular roof gable f. arched, masonry structure forming a ceiling or roof g. projecting structure supporting a wall or building h. roofed, open gallery overlooking a courtyard (answers: 1e, 2h, 3c, 4a, 5d, 6g, 7f, 8b) |
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