Architecture: fill in the blanks · Grade 11

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• dome · keystone · cantilevers · truss · buttresses · Pritzker orders · Barcelona
• 1 Antoni Gaudi designed the Sagrada Familia in ____.
• 2 Doric, Ionic and Corinthian are the three classical Greek ____.
• 3 The Pantheon in Rome has a giant unreinforced concrete · with an open oculus.
• 4 A · uses triangles because they hold their shape under load.
• 5 Zaha Hadid was the first woman to win the · Prize.
• 6 Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater uses dramatic · over a waterfall.
• 7 Gothic cathedrals used flying · to support tall walls and huge windows.
• 8 The · is the last stone placed at the top of an arch.