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This is the horizontal beam that rests on top of columns, forming a key structural element in classical architecture.
- Pediment
- Capital
- Architrave
- Cornice
This pointed arch style dominated European cathedral construction from the 12th to 16th centuries, featuring flying buttresses and ribbed vaults.
- Romanesque
- Gothic
- Baroque
- Renaissance
This Italian city is famous for its leaning bell tower, which began tilting during construction due to soft ground.
- Florence
- Venice
- Rome
- Pisa
This is the decorative top portion of a column, often featuring scrolls or leaves depending on the architectural order.
- Capital
- Base
- Shaft
- Plinth
This American architect designed Fallingwater, a house built over a waterfall in Pennsylvania.
- Louis Sullivan
- Philip Johnson
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- I.M. Pei
This external support structure transfers the weight of a roof or vault away from a wall, commonly seen in Gothic cathedrals.
- Buttress
- Flying buttress
- Pier
- Pilaster
This curved ceiling structure distributes weight evenly downward and outward, used since ancient Roman times.
- Beam
- Truss
- Lintel
- Arch
This term describes the triangular space formed by a sloping roof at the end of a building.
- Gable
- Dormer
- Eave
- Soffit
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