Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these buildings by the structural problem each is famous for solving.
- Hagia Sophia: a dome on a square plan
- A Gothic cathedral: thrust carried outward from a ribbed vault
- A Greek temple: many short stone spans
- An early steel-framed tower: load carried by a skeleton
- The Pantheon: a concrete dome on a circular drum
Hints
- The sequence runs from the shortest spans to the freest plan.
- The dome on a square plan follows the dome on a round one.
Show the answer
- A Greek temple: many short stone spans
- The Pantheon: a concrete dome on a circular drum
- Hagia Sophia: a dome on a square plan
- A Gothic cathedral: thrust carried outward from a ribbed vault
- An early steel-framed tower: load carried by a skeleton
Why
Each building in the sequence is a solved problem, and the solution is what the building looks like. That is the argument of the lesson in one list: the structure is not behind the architecture, it is the architecture seen from inside.
Practise Architecture I: Structure and What It Permits
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