- •I. Choose the right word.
- •II. Circle a), b) or c) to complete the sentence.
- •I. Match the beginnings of the sentences to their ends using the information from the text.
- •II. Replace the words and word combinations in italics (a) by their contextual synonyms
- •III. Answer the questions.
- •IV. Give the English equivalents.
- •V. With your partner, speak on the different aspects of architectural planning.
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •II. Choose the right term.
- •III. Choose the right preposition.
- •I. Find the false sentences using the information from the text. Correct them.
- •II. Match the beginnings of the sentences to their ends using the information from the text.
- •III. You misheard the information. Make it more exact putting the questions.
- •IV. Prove the following, using the information from the text.
- •V. Answer the following questions.
- •VI. Read the text and tell about the use of the Dork and Ionic orders in the architecture of the Acropolis.
- •VII. Ask your friend to describe one of the Orders of Architecture.
- •I. Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •III. Choose the right form of the verb.
- •IV. Choose the right preposition.
- •I. Fill in the gaps with the words from the text.
- •II. Match the beginnings of the sentences to their ends using the information from the text.
- •III. Find the false sentences using the information from the text. Correct them.
- •IV. Change into passive.
- •V. A) Find in the text the synonyms for the following words.
- •VI. Answer the following questions.
- •VII. Give the English equivalents.
- •I. Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the sentences.
- •III. Choose the right sentence.
- •I. Choose the right verb.
- •II. Choose the right form of the adjective.
- •III. Choose the right terms to the following definitions.
- •IV. Give the Russian equivalents.
- •V. Match the beginnings of the sentences to their ends.
- •VI. Increase your vocabulary. Make your own sentences using these verbs.
- •XI. Ask your partner which architectural monuments he would like to see being in Rome.
- •I. Complete the sentences.
- •II. Choose the right sentence.
- •III. Choose the right synonyms for the following words.
- •I. Suggest the Russian equivalents.
- •II. Replace the words in italics (a) by synonyms (b).
- •III. Match the beginnings of the sentences to their ends using the information from the text.
- •IV. Increase your vocabulary. Make some sentences of your own using these phrases.
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •II. Choose the right adjective.
- •III. Choose the right word.
- •I. Suggest the Russian equivalents.
- •II. Match the terms (a) and their definitions (b).
- •IV.Answer the following questions.
- •V. Paraphrase the following statements using the information from the text.
- •VI. Give the English equivalents.
- •VII. With your partner, make up a dialogue using the information from the text 1 and your own knowledge on the subject.
- •VIII. Read the text and speak on a typical example of the Renaissance style in England.
V. A) Find in the text the synonyms for the following words.
pharaohs; spectacular; gigantic, to protect; to plunder
B) Say in other way using the information from the text.
1. Artists and craftsmen were given orders by the pharaohs.
2. The pyramids of the 4th Dynasty are the most spectacular monuments of the Old Kingdom.
3. Many Royal monuments of the Middle Kingdom were plundered.
4. They built fortresses to protect the southern and eastern borders.
5. Techniques of working in stone, wood, and metal were used in gigantic monuments.
VI. Answer the following questions.
1. Into what periods could ancient Egyptian architecture be classified?
2. What typical structures did the architecture of Egypt produce?
3. What is the only remained wonder of the world?
4. When did the final revival of ancient Egyptian architecture take place?
5. What are the greatest examples of the period of revival?
VII. Give the English equivalents.
художники и ремесленники;
под покровительством царя и знати;
храмы солнца;
достигать новых вершин мастерства;
расцвет искусств и ремесел;
поощрять художников и ремесленников;
достижения, прославляющие царей и могущество богов;
погребальный храм царицы Хатшепсут;
преемники Александра Великого
Text B.
GREAT SPHINX
From the 15century AD European travellers carried home tales of the mysterious and amazing remains of the civilization of Egypt. One of its most remarkable monuments, which still evokes this sense of awe and might, is the Great Sphinx of Gizeh, the oldest surviving sphinx, dating from c2550 BC, carved from a rock with the crouching body of a lion and a human face
(74,4 m. long, 20,1 m. high, and 4,2 m. broad, at its widest point; the head is 8,7 m. high from chin to crown).
The human head was the means of individualizing the sculpture, so that the Great Sphinx probably bears the idealized features of Khephren whose pyramid is nearby.
The concept of the king as a powerful lion goes back into prehistoric times, and several ceremonial objects have survived which depict him in this guise, overthrowing his enemies. The sphinx was, therefore, a natural development, personifying the divine power of the king as a force protecting his land and repelling the power of evil.
The Great Sphinx is one of the most distinctive and dominant of all the images of ancient Egypt, which is perhaps the source of the misconception that sphinxes are of central importance in Egyptian culture. However, those that have survived are among the most impressive as well as intriguing examples of Egyptian sculpture.
Text C. Read the text and say what materials were used for the construction of beams; what material is used now?
BEAMS
Already in the early 3millennium BC, in Zozer's tomb complex at Saqqara, blocks of stone were being deliberately shaped for use as ceiling beams instead of just used as found. The fact that their undersides were cut to a rounded form suggests an even earlier use of cut timber, probably palm logs.
This is to be expected, since timber is easier to cut and transport. Apart from its inferior durability, it is also a more appropriate material because the structural action of a beam involves internal tension as well as compression. Besides, timber, unlike stone, has a tensile strength along the grain to match its compressive strength. With stone there was only one possibility — the use of metal reinforcement at the bottom to improve the tensile weakness.
Iron beams became structurally important elements only in the lafe 18century with the widespread introduction of cast iron.
Reinforced concrete became a highly versatile structural material, since the strength of the concrete, the overall geometry of the element, and the quantity and placement of the reinforcement rods were all under the designer's control.
Text D. Translate the text.
Antonio Gaudi was born in Reus (Cataluna) in a family of coppersmiths.
The most universal architect which Cataluna has given was the last of five brothers and although he did not follow the traditional occupation of the family he always proclaimed and recognized in the profession of his father his own personal conception of space and volume. Gaudi saw in the construction of boilers which his father produced a free treatment, almost immaterial, of space.
Gaudi worked at the moment of Modernistic outbreak, the movement of regeneration and replanting of the arts in which one can produce the person and his work. One must point out that Gaudi — always bound to his historic moment and his people — going forward to his era, never limited himself to some criterion of school. Therefore his figure and his work are the chapter apart in Modernism.
Among his first works were the "Cuidadela" Park of Barcelona, the niche of the Virgin of Monserrat, the street lamps in the "Plaza Real" of Barcelona, the Vicen's house, the furniture of the "Comillas" chapel, apart from other projects not always realized. These were the first tests which allowed him to find solutions — synthesis of Romanic-Gothic Medievalism, organic naturalism, orientalism, geometrism — which configured in all his posterior work.
The diversity of the assignments is evident and would also be maintained in all produced by this architect.
Antonio Gaudi is the author of such world renewed architectural products as the college of the Teresinas, the Guell Park, the "Botines" house, the Episcopal Palace of Astorga, the houses "Calvet" and "Battlo", the "Pedrera" (Mila house), the crypt of the "Colonia Guell", and many others. His greatest work is the New Cathedral of Barcelona — The "Sagrada Familia" (Holy Family).
Unit 4
Text A. Read the text and tell about the architecture of Residential and Public Structures of the Roman Empire.
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Modern knowledge of Roman architecture derives primarily from extant remains scattered throughout the area of the empire. Some are well preserved, and other are known only in fragments and by theoretical restoration. Another source of information is a vast store of records. Especially important is a book on architecture by the architect Vitruvius. His De Ar-chitectura (c.27 BC) is the only treatise survived from ancient times. It consists of ten books and covers almost every aspect on architecture.
Pervasive Roman predilection was for spatial composition — the organization of lines, surfaces, masses, and volumes in space. In this the Romans differed from their predecessors in the ancient Mediterranean world, and, however freely they used the elements of earlier styles, in Rome or in the provinces they recast them according to their own taste.
In Roman architecture there were three types of houses: the domus, the insula, and the villa.
The domus, or town house, consisted of suites of rooms grouped around a central hall, or atrium, to which were often added further suites at the rear, grouped around a colonnaded court, or peristyle. The atrium, a rectangular room with an opening in the roof to the sky, and its adjoining rooms were peculiarly Roman elements; the peristyle was Greek or Middle Eastern. There were few windows on the street, light being obtained from the atrium or peristyle.
In Rome the chief examples of domus are the House of Vestals in the Forum in Rome and that of Livia on the Palatine Hill.
Great blocks of flats or tenements were called insulae. Excavations at Ostia, Italy, have revealed the design of these blocks. Planed on three or four floors with strict regard to economy of space, they depended on light from the exterior as well as from a central court. Independent apartments had separate entrances with direct access to the street.
The Latin word villa pertained to an estate, complete with house, grounds, and subsidiary buildings.
Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, began about AD 123, was a sumptuous residence with parks and gardens on a large scale. The unevenness of the site necessitated large terraces and flights of steps. There are remains of great brick and concrete structures. All the buildings are Roman in style and method of construction, though with Greek names.
The Romans were great builders and engineers famous for their factories, roads, aqueducts and bridges, grand thermae and amphitheatres, theatres, and temples.
The greatest surviving circular temple of antiquity, and in many respects the most important Roman building, is the Pantheon in Rome. It consists of rotunda about 142 feet in diameter surrounded by concrete walls 20 feet thick, in which are alternate circular and rectangular niches. Light is admitted through a central opening, or oculus, about 28 feet across, at the crown of the dome. In front is a porch with an inscription commemorating an earlier building of Marcus Agrippa (12 BC—AD 14) but built with the existing rotunda (AD 120—124) under the emperor Hadrian. The rotunda and dome are among the finest examples of Roman concrete work. The interior was lined with precious marbles, the coffers (decorative recessed panels) of the dome itself once was covered externally with bronze plates.
The largest and most important amphitheatre of Rome was the Colosseum, built by the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian in about AD 70/75 —82. Covering six acres (2.4 hectares), it had seating for about 50,000 spectators, and its 80 entrances were so arranged that the building could be cleared quickly. The whole is built of concrete, the exterior faced with travertine and the interior with precious marbles.
Other important amphitheatres are those at Verona, Italy; Pula, Yugoslavia; and Aries, France.
Imperial thermae were more than baths. They were immense establishments of great magnificence, with facilities for every gymnastic exercise and halls in which philosophers, poets, rhetoricians, and those who wished to hear them gathered.
The best preserved are the Baths of Caracalla (begun c. AD 217), which covered an area about 1,000 feet square, and those of Diocletian (c. AD 298—306), with accommodation for 3,200 bathers.
Vocabulary
to derive — происходить
remains — (зд.) руины
store — запас
treatise — трактат
pervasive — проникающий, распространяющийся повсюду
predilection — предпочтение
spatial — пространственный
surface — поверхность
to recast — придавать новую форму, переделывать
to consist (of) — состоять (из)
rear — расположенный сзади, задний
peculiarly — oco6eHHo
to obtain — получать, приобретать
tenement — многоквартирный дом, сдаваемый в аренду
excavations — раскопки
to reveal — показывать, обнаруживать
with strict regard — со строгим учетом
to depend (on) — зависеть (от)
access — доступ
to admit — допускать, принимать
opening — отверстие
inscription — надпись
concrete — 6eTOH
precious — драгоценный
marble — мрамор
establishment — учреждение
magnificence — величие
facility — приспособление
accommodation — размещение