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Class COMPRE
EXAM FINALS MIDTERMS
Status Not started
Subject HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
PULGUK-SA TEMPLE - A temple built during the Three Kingdoms Period
representative relic of Buddhist culture from the Silla kingdom
KHMER PERIOD - The famous Angkor Wat was built during this era by King
Jayavarman II as a devotion to Hindu god, Vishnu
BAKONG TEMPLE - The first of the large mountain temples in Angkor. It
belongs to the Roluos group, build at the end of the 9th century.
GOPURA/GAPURA - An entrance gate or entrance pavilion in the wall that
surrounds a temple of Khmer
MOUNT MERU - The mountain that is considered as the center of the
universe in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.
WEST BARAY - A giant, man-made water reservoir of Khmer kingdom.
TA KEO - A temple in Cambodia of more fundamental significance, it may
be said to epitomize the results of two hundred years of development of the
Khmer temple-mountain.
BAYON, ANGKOR THOM - It symbolizes the god-king cult, originally
consisted of a system of vaulted galleries and small pavilions disposed in a
cruciform plan
PRASAT LOLEI - An island temple built in 893 by King Yasovarman I, to
honor his ancestors
GARUDA - A creature from Hindu and Buddhist mythology, half bird, half
man. In Hindu mythology it is the mount of Vishnu. In Angkor they are often
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, found in carvings on walls and lintels.
PRAMBANAN TEMPLES/COMPLEX - Located in Yogyakarta, it is considered
as the finest example of Hindu architecture; It has tall and pointed roofs that
feature elaborate carvings, dedicated to the Trimurti - the worship of
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as the three gods/processes that complete life
on earth
RUMAH GADANG - An Indonesian house distinctive for their multiple gables
with dramatically upsweeping ridge ends
HONAI - They look like mushrooms. They are circular huts with thatched
dome roofs.
RUMAH ADAT - These homes in Indonesia are known as traditional
architecture which is varied across regions and cultures but also had
certain similarities
TONGKONAN HOUSE - They are houses built on piles and dwarfed by
massive exaggerated-pitch saddle roofs. It has the typical in the “buffalo
horn”, design of roof and the rich decoration on the walls
SALANGKO - The wall enclosing space under the rumah gadang that has
been built on stilt
BALE KULSKULS - It acts as a watchtower or drum tower in Indonesian
temples
BOROBUDUR TEMPLE- A World Heritage site built by the Sailendra Dynasty
between 750 and 850 AD, but it was abandoned shortly after its completion
as a result of the decline of Buddhism and a shift of power to eastern Java
LUMBUNG - A pile-built bonnet-roofed rice barns, that are often more
distinctive and elaborate than Sasak people houses
JAVANESE KRATON - A Javanese Royal palace with tumpang sari
ornamentation that are elaborate but based on common Javanese forms
WAT MAHADHATU TEMPLE - Restored in the fifteenth century, it is a
building of the Khmer-Angkor type. It stands in a walled court, and
comprises a sanctuary tower and attached portico raised on a high
moulded plinth.
WAT KUTKUT TEMPLE - The temple was founded around 1150 when
Lamphun was the capital of the Mon Dvaravati Kingdom of Hariphunchai.
Local legend tells that the spot where the temple was to be erected was
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Class COMPRE
EXAM FINALS MIDTERMS
Status Not started
Subject HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
PULGUK-SA TEMPLE - A temple built during the Three Kingdoms Period
representative relic of Buddhist culture from the Silla kingdom
KHMER PERIOD - The famous Angkor Wat was built during this era by King
Jayavarman II as a devotion to Hindu god, Vishnu
BAKONG TEMPLE - The first of the large mountain temples in Angkor. It
belongs to the Roluos group, build at the end of the 9th century.
GOPURA/GAPURA - An entrance gate or entrance pavilion in the wall that
surrounds a temple of Khmer
MOUNT MERU - The mountain that is considered as the center of the
universe in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.
WEST BARAY - A giant, man-made water reservoir of Khmer kingdom.
TA KEO - A temple in Cambodia of more fundamental significance, it may
be said to epitomize the results of two hundred years of development of the
Khmer temple-mountain.
BAYON, ANGKOR THOM - It symbolizes the god-king cult, originally
consisted of a system of vaulted galleries and small pavilions disposed in a
cruciform plan
PRASAT LOLEI - An island temple built in 893 by King Yasovarman I, to
honor his ancestors
GARUDA - A creature from Hindu and Buddhist mythology, half bird, half
man. In Hindu mythology it is the mount of Vishnu. In Angkor they are often
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, found in carvings on walls and lintels.
PRAMBANAN TEMPLES/COMPLEX - Located in Yogyakarta, it is considered
as the finest example of Hindu architecture; It has tall and pointed roofs that
feature elaborate carvings, dedicated to the Trimurti - the worship of
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as the three gods/processes that complete life
on earth
RUMAH GADANG - An Indonesian house distinctive for their multiple gables
with dramatically upsweeping ridge ends
HONAI - They look like mushrooms. They are circular huts with thatched
dome roofs.
RUMAH ADAT - These homes in Indonesia are known as traditional
architecture which is varied across regions and cultures but also had
certain similarities
TONGKONAN HOUSE - They are houses built on piles and dwarfed by
massive exaggerated-pitch saddle roofs. It has the typical in the “buffalo
horn”, design of roof and the rich decoration on the walls
SALANGKO - The wall enclosing space under the rumah gadang that has
been built on stilt
BALE KULSKULS - It acts as a watchtower or drum tower in Indonesian
temples
BOROBUDUR TEMPLE- A World Heritage site built by the Sailendra Dynasty
between 750 and 850 AD, but it was abandoned shortly after its completion
as a result of the decline of Buddhism and a shift of power to eastern Java
LUMBUNG - A pile-built bonnet-roofed rice barns, that are often more
distinctive and elaborate than Sasak people houses
JAVANESE KRATON - A Javanese Royal palace with tumpang sari
ornamentation that are elaborate but based on common Javanese forms
WAT MAHADHATU TEMPLE - Restored in the fifteenth century, it is a
building of the Khmer-Angkor type. It stands in a walled court, and
comprises a sanctuary tower and attached portico raised on a high
moulded plinth.
WAT KUTKUT TEMPLE - The temple was founded around 1150 when
Lamphun was the capital of the Mon Dvaravati Kingdom of Hariphunchai.
Local legend tells that the spot where the temple was to be erected was
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