ARLH 211 Midterm

Walls, Surroundings, Water, Vegetation, Shades, Geometry and viewpoint are fundamental features of

_____ evokes a representation of Amitabha Buddha's Western Paradise.

The temple’s tower______ is associated with Lord Shiva’s mountain home, Mt. Kailsha

What concept does Soswaewon Garden most embody in its design and spirit?

The design of a chahar bagh is an earthly representation of

Literati culture was incorporated into garden design. This type of garden architecture is called fang, which mimics ___

The main avenue that bisects Teotihuacán is called

Chinese dragon represents the concept of yang (male) while the phoenix represents yin (female). 

In ancient Mesoamerican cosmology tunnels provide access to ____, an aquatic place filled with riches & nourishing seed

This term indicates the gentry class, composed of individuals who passed the civil service exams in China

Kukulcan's Pyramid or El Castillo could be experienced as a connection from earth to sky, from humans to gods. How?

____ are meant to evoke large bodies of water, celebrate simplicity, abstraction, tranquility, and the monochromatic.

Song Yue Temple Pagoda is constructed out of

Todai-ji is elaborate and monumental because it was designed to be the central Buddhist temple of all of Nara Korea

Why would patrons be motivated to fund the creation of sacred Buddhist sites, monasteries, and temples?

Which narrative is dramatically depicted in a relief at the temple's north basement?

Rare sculptures like “Ravana Shaking Mt. Kailasha” are occasionally used to spread Hindu beliefs and practices

Kinkaku-ji/the Golden Temple was originally a Buddhist temple, reflecting a distant connection to the Indian stupa form

This is thought to be the oldest Persian garden

Kailashanatha is more precise and detailed than masonry or brick temples due to the flexibility of carving into basalt

The white roads that linked cities throughout the Maya empire are called

The walls of the Great Zimbabwe are built of rough blocks of granite fitted without the use of mortar

This is the oldest wooden building in the world

Like Teotihuacan, what urban sites encode understandings of the cosmos into the constructed environment

Classical principles of city planning payed careful attention to theoretical and philosophical understandings of

This is obviously the most important building in the Forbidden City

____ is the largest stone complex in Africa built before the modern era, aside from the architecture of ancient Egypt.

Access to the Imperial City depended upon your rank in society, down to what staircase you used or where you stood.

Which Hindu god was Angkor Wat dedicated to, and who was its royal patron?

What is the name of the sloping ramps that alternate with frieze bands seen here at Teotihuacán?

In the Yucatan peninsula there are no rivers. So instead Maya cities like Chichen Itza were settled

Persian gardens are often connected to water sources deep underground through

A Chinese scholar-official would really admire this rock

The key sites of Teotihuacán are the

The shikhara is

Why is the Garden of the Humble Administrator named after the phrase from Pan Yue’s essay "On Idle Living"?

Why did Yang San-bo create Soswaewon Garden?

At Horyu-ji the interior sculptures show

This Zen Buddhist garden exemplifies wabisabi. Refined rusticity. Simplicity, artlessness, lack of pretension are prized

Like the chattra, the shinbashira is symbolic of the axis mundi

Shahjuy = "the main waterway through which water flows into smaller, minor brooks directly from the main pool"

Main entrance to the Forbidden City. The emperor appears on the balcony during the New Year's ceremony + special events

They prided themselves on the mastery of __, poetry, and painting, all of which often engaged with the landscape garden.

What is distinctive about the construction of the Kailashanatha Temple at Ellora?

The temple's rich sculptural decoration includes stone carvings of the figure of ______, the feathered serpent.

What are the basic descriptive components Architectural Historians™ use when they describe a building?

The earliest imperial patron of Buddhism was Indian emperor Ashoka who built the ___ over the relics of the Buddha

Persian gardens are axial and symmetrical

What do the five central towers of Angkor Wat represent?

This is the Maya built Teotihuacán in present-day Mexico

What was the intended experience of walking along the curvilinear paths and zigzagging bridges in the garden?

Walking on a ___ path at Katsura Villa requires your full attention and prepares you mentally for the tea ceremony

What key structure in Aksum offers contemporary historians the most clues about the ancient architecture of Aksum?

Which aspect of the Shokin-tei teahouse’s design reflects the traditional Japanese appreciation for seasonal changes?

While most of the sites we examined have a stupa or pagoda, Buseoksa Temple does not

The Pyramid of the Sun and Moon...

What is a key feature of Sukiya-zukuri architecture as seen in this Japanese teahouse?

Buddhist visitors to the Song Yue Pagoda would originally have ascended into the interior of the tower to venerate icons

The massive reservoirs called barays at Angkor only served practical functions, such as irrigation and water supply.

_____ is used for major public ceremonies such as the New Year's Banquet and the accession of a new Emperor.

What makes the apsara carvings at Angkor Wat especially notable?