ARCH 420 Midterm UMD, Top Exam Questions and answers, rated A+

ARCH 420 Midterm UMD, Top Exam Questions and answers, rated A+ Subterranean Pit House - House built into the ground with a roof on the surface. Wickiup - Oval frame hut covered with brushwood, reed mats, or grass. Tipi (teepee) - Sioux word for dwelling place. Conical tent usually consisting of skins, used especially by Native Americans of the Great Plains. Only 1st American building that was dependent on constant sources of heat during cold weather. Oriented towards the east. Wigwam - A dome-shaped hut or tent made by fastening mats, skins, or bark over a framework of poles. Kiva - A Pueblo Indian ceremonial structure that is usually round and partly underground. Pueblo - The communal dwelling of an American Indian village of Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent areas consisting of contiguous flat-roofed stone or adobe houses in groups sometimes several stories high Viga - A rough-hewn beam, usually of fir, used to support the roof in adobe construction. Latilla - One of a number of sticks or small branches, usually of stripped pine, cedar, or aspen, laid across the main beams to form a ceiling. Hogan - Primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people constructed of logs and mud or sod. Laws of the Indies - Codified rules for laying out settlements in Spanish Colonial territories in the New World, to establish uniformity in towns which were laid with wide streets in an orderly grid. Presidio - Fortified military settlement. Mission - A plan of conversion. Buildings used by Christian mission. Corbel - A projection jutting out from a wall to support a structure above it. Atrio - Open-air chapel Campo Sancto - Walled burial ground