[ARTHIST 225] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 23 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Duke University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTHIST 225
• Professor: caroline Bruzelius

Document Summary

How can i make this ? complicated question that depends on a long heritage of building tradition: amiens cathedral (begun 1220) 137 feet tall. Transcendental ideas have formed over many years. Elevation, clerestory, triforium, arcade (look athe the lecture slides online) Design is all about how you are going to articulate your thoughts. Like a sandwhich where the triforium is the salami between two thick pieces of bread. In a normal cathedral, the triforium is on the inside face of the building and has a passageway there. Roof over the aisles to drain water during the winter, if the mortar is wet it will freeze and expand. External support from the flying buttresses creates a counterforce to the vault in the lowest third of the vault (the most vulnerable part) More buttresses for extra support on the upper wall. The architecture hides the reality of the weight and mass of the wall. If the buttress is in the wrong place.