What is the difference in the organization of information, point of view, analysis, emphasis, visualization, and use of sources between your print textbook and the online media?

Architecture by Geoffrey

Choose five of the study questions to answer.
1. Choose two case studies from the Study Guide for this unit. Find their sections
in A Global History of Architecture, and then examine two online resources
covering each of these cases. What is the difference in the organization of
information, point of view, analysis, emphasis, visualization, and use of
sources between your print textbook and the online media?
2. Annotate a ground plan or map of Chang’an, China, and explain how the city

developed to accommodate and express the interests of Buddhist belief, civic
administration, commerce, and imperial power.
3. In note form, describe the main architectural elements of the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. Then note the practical
and symbolic functions of these elements, and the role each plays in
accommodating the pilgrim visitors, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
4. Using ground plans of the actual abbey church and monastery of St. Riquier,
France, and the ideal plan of St. Gall, compare and make notes on how
pilgrims might have been received, accommodated, and circulated through
these sites, as well as what these plans reveal about the life (work, commerce,
ritual observances, etc.) of the monks who lived there or who would have lived
there.
5. In illustrated note form, explain how cosmological belief systems were “built
into” the temple complexes at Akapana, Bolivia, and Shwezigon Dagoba
(pagoda), Burma.
6. Using sketch plans of Borobudur, in Indonesia, indicate how traffic flow and
the sequencing of the ritualistic experience were designed into this site.
7. Drawing on any three case studies from this unit, explain in a short essay
(500–750 words) how architectural form and decorative (i.e., sculptural)
iconography reveal how religious beliefs serve political ideologies