Quiz 4

The Maya developed two calendars, a solar calendar and a religious calendar. These two calendars

coincided every 52 years

The layouts of the Dogon villages in Mali are based upon

the reclining male figure

Ancestral Pueblo architecture of tribes in the Southwest established

methods for the conservation and management of water

According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on the Americas, the ________ is considered by most scholars to be an astronomical observatory aligned to key point in the Maya calendar.

Caracol

According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on the Americas, Mesoamericans were never compelled to invention were structural spans were concerned. All major civic and religious rituals

unfolded in the landscape

According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on the Americas, this sculpture, called the Sun Stone depicts the

Aztec calendar

The structural system that helped to define Gothic architecture can be referred to as

skeletal

In order to advance to the level of master builder, a building designer was required to

present a building or a model for evaluation by the masters of his craft guild

In medieval city planning, the church was typically located

away from the town square

According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Gothic architecture, Villard de Honnecourt’s fame rests entirely on his

surviving portfolio of 33 sheets of parchment containing about 250 drawings

According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Gothic architecture, structural vaults had been known for a millennia emerging from Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and Romanesque architecture. However, gothic structures reduced the weight of the vaults through the use of

thin stone ribs that carried stress lines from the roof to the piers down into the foundations

According to Professor Tilson’s lecture on Gothic architecture, most wooden truss systems

a and b (correct answer) were often hidden behind elaborated decorated ceilings played a secondary supportive role