Architecture: A Window to Our Lives

The word design describes the big picture in

• Buildings

• Structure

• Architecture

• Creativity

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is NOT a principle of design in architecture?

• Durability

• Stainability

• Utility

• Beauty

Architecture should delight people and be attractive to look at

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How many principles of designs are there?

• 5

• 2

• 1

• 3

Shapes are two-dimensional, which means they’re not flat.

• True

• False

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CCSS.1.G.A.1

CCSS.2.G.A.1

Architecture is most often made up of geometric forms

• True

• False

Which principle of design is promoted by the “golden ratio”?

• Stability

• Durability

• Utility

• Beauty

Cubes look like the building blocks that many kids—and many future designers—play with when they are growing up!

What is the author trying to help the reader do by including the sentence above?

• understand that any design that includes a cube is just a toy

• use principles of architecture to imagine designs of the future

• understand that playing with blocks has no relationship to design

• use what they already know to help them picture a cube

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Nomadic people have a permanent home

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Easy to carry or move around

(a)  

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4