GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BA – SEMESTER– VI EXAMINATION – SUMMER 2020
S ubject Code: 1055003 Date: 10/11/2020

Subject Name: History of Architecture – III
Time: 10:30 AM TO 12:30 PM Total Marks: 50
Instructions:
1. Attempt any five questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Use suitable sketches wherever required

1. Differential between early Gothic, high Gothic and late Gothic. 5×2 (10)

Explain structural innovations of any three of that time- flying buttress, pointed arch, Rib

vault, plate tracery, four storey bay, complex vault.

2. Explain design of Hagia Sophia, elaborate the pendentive dome. (10)

3. Explain any one colonial building in India? (10)

4 Discuss the influence of Roman architecture on early Christian architecture? (10)

5. Write about the architectural characteristics of Renaissance time? 5×2 (10)

Explain important works of Fillippo Brunelleschi or Leon Battista Alberti

6. Write Short notes on any two 5×2 (10)

Curving facades, Illusion, spatial complexity, classic domes, dramatization of designs in

classic time, classic gardens

7. Fill in the blanks

(a).The elements used as a water spout in gothic churches are ……………………. 2×5 (10)

(b).An example of a Romanesque church in France is………………………………

(c). The types of crosses used in church (plan) design are………..and ……………..

(d). …….. and ……. materials are used for decorating the interior of the S. Sophia

(e). Perspective the formation of an image in a picture plane of a scene viewed from a fixed

point, and its modelling in geometry was idealized in which time…………………

(Hints: Gargoyles/catacombs, Saint Sermin/Saint Miniaco, Latin/Greek/English/French/

German, Marble/ Mosaic/rubble/concrete/glass, Renaissance / Mannerism)