Reading the City: Architectural Styles

Recognising styles from classical to modern and reading a building in the street.

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What’s inside

  • Reading a facade: roof, windows, materials, ornament
  • The classical orders, Renaissance and Baroque
  • Byzantine, Anatolian Seljuk and Gothic
  • Ottoman classical, Art Nouveau and the First National Architecture Movement
  • Modernism, brutalism and contemporary architecture

Sample question

On Gothic cathedrals, which support stands outside the wall and carries the sideways thrust of the vault down to the ground through an arched arm?      
Flying buttressPendentiveMuqarnas

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How it works

  1. 1Start the programLeave your name and number; the first question reaches your WhatsApp within seconds.
  2. 2Two minutes a dayShort, interactive questions: fill in the blank, ordering, matching and more.
  3. 3Points and rankingEvery correct answer earns points, and the team ranking keeps people coming back.

What the manager sees

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