WorksheetsTheory of Architecture
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Worksheet time: 1hrs 12mins
(a) is a framework or a process that helps to answer the
meaning and understanding of architecture vocabulary
such as the chosen element of architecture.
the three-dimensional field in which
objects and events occur and have relative
position and direction,
SPACE
SHAPE
AREA
In this type of
spatial relationship, the larger, enveloping
space serves as a three-dimensional field for
the smaller space contained within it
SPACES LINKED BY A COMMON SPACE
ADJACENT SPACES
SPACE WITHIN A SPACE
is the most common type
of spatial relationship. It allows each space to
be clearly defined and to respond, each in its
own way, to specific functional or symbolic
requirements.
SPACE WITHIN A SPACE
ADJACENT SPACES
INTERLOCKING SPACES
results from the
overlapping of two spatial fields and the
emergence of a zone of shared space
SPACES LINKED BY A COMMON SPACE
ADJACENT SPACES
INTERLOCKING SPACES
Two spaces that are separated by distance
can be linked or related to each other by a
third, intermediate, space
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
SPACES LINKED BY A COMMON SPACE
LINEAR
is a stable, concentrated
composition that consists of several
secondary spaces grouped around a large,
dominant, central space
LINEAR
CLUSTERED
CENTRALIZED
consists essentially of a series of
spaces. These spaces can either be directly
related to one another or be linked through
a separate and distinct linear space
LINEAR
GRID
RADIAL
combines elements of both
centralized and linear organizations. It consists
of a dominant central space from which a
CLUSTERED
RADIAL
CENTRALIZED
consists of forms and spaces whose
positions in space and relationships with one
another are regulated by a three-dimensional
grid pattern or field
CLUSTERED
RADIAL
GRID
relies on physical proximity to
relate its spaces to one another. It often
consists of repetitive, cellular spaces that have
similar functions and share a common visual
trait such as shape or orientation
LINEAR
CENTRALIZED
CLUSTERED
are treatises which aim at
the fulfillment of one principal goal, usually at
the cost of other customary goals of building
(a)
Two plausible reasons can be given for
according logical primacy in the Vitruvian
triad to (a) . The first is the notion that
architecture is essentially the “art of
building.” The second is that, since the uses
or functions of a building tend to change,
the structures serving such functions may
be considered as taking logical precedence
over them.
Firmness or physical strength secured the
building's structural integrity.
FIRMITAS
UTILITAS
VENUSTAS
The notion that a building is defective unless
the spaces provided are adequate and
appropriate for their intended usage would
seem obvious.
FIRMITAS
UTILITAS
VENUSTAS
VITRUVIAN TRIAD: Utility provided an efficient arrangement of
spaces and mechanical systems to meet the
functional needs of its occupants
UTILITAS
VENUSTAS
FIRMITAS
This Latin term for “beauty” (literally, the salient qualities possessed by the goddess Venus) clearly implied a visual quality in architecture that would arouse the emotion of love, but it is of interest to note that one of the crucial aspects of this problem was already anticipated by Alberti in the 15th century, as is made clear by his substitution of the word amoenitas (“pleasure”) for Vitruvius’s more anthropomorphic term (a) .
In 1418, a copy of the Vitruve was found among the manuscripts of the Monastery of (a) . The word about the manuscript spread fast to the circles of architects in Italy and was soon met with enthusiasm.
The person in charge of constructions
commanded by Pope
LEON BAUTISTA ALBERTI
PHILIBERT DE L’ORME
MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO
Leon Bautista Alberti wrote (a) (on painting) where it
included Brunelleschi’s theories of perspective and De Re Aedificatoria (On Building), the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance.
“Regole generall di architectura”
LEON BAUTISTA ALBERTI
SEBASTINO SERLIO
GIACOMO BAROZZI DA VIGNOLA
“Regola delle cinque ordini” / The Five Orders of
Architecture
ANDREA PALLADIO
SEBASTINO SERLIO
GIACOMO BAROZZI DA VIGNOLA
GIACOMO BAROZZI DA VIGNOLA based his design instructions on the idea of (a) that the proportions of small integers meant harmony
One of French theorist who are critical of Italians
ANDREA PALLADIO
PHILIBERT DE L’ORME
LEON BAUTISTA ALBERTI
The Father of modern picture books of
architecture
PHILIBERT DE L’ORME
ANDREA PALLADIO
LEON BAUTISTA ALBERTI
in (a) a stone vault with a span of over 20m has been standing well over two millennia and exists still today.
-Consists mostly of normative theory of design (based on practice)
-A collection of thematic theories of design with no method of combining them into a synthesis
(a)
Central figures in developing the mathematical
construction theory were
Robert Hooke
Jakob Bernoulli
Leonhard Euler
George Kinsley
Calvin Meyers
The methods of creating mathematical models and verifying them through experiments were adopted from
Galileo Galilei
Kristofer Pollonsky
Francis Bacon
Charles Darwin
The name "engineer", which comes form the Latin word genium = " (a) "
The word (a) was adopted by Marquise de Vauban
when he founded a building department, Corps des
ingénieurs, in the French army, in 1675.
in 1747, a special school, _____, was founded in Paris.
La Martiniere Lyon
Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées
L'Ensemble Scolaire Maurice-Tièche
Lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
He studied the methods of
exploiting an eternal source of architectural
forms: nature and especially the forms of
plants.
(a)
The example set by (a) encouraged some of
the most skillful architects of our century to create
their private form languages.
After the Gothic style, the first architectural style
independent of the tradition of antiquity in Europe was
Renaissance
Impressionism
Art Nouveau
The theoretical proposals of (a) , and his
sculptural buildings, received at first much attention
among Functionalist architects, but fresh theories were
soon put forward by other authors.
The (a) of architects are not necessarily
based on laws of nature or on logical reasoning.
The intended uses of new buildings have certainly influenced their architecture long before the emergence of first architects or theories.
FUNCTIONALISM
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
Despite the influential slogan of (a) , "Form follows function" no coherent theory of functionalism was created before the 1920s when it started to unfold in the Bauhaus school headed by Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969).
_____ of the building meant to the first developers
and supporters of the Functionalist theory mostly the
physical requirements (primarily dimensions) that
were necessary to carry out the practical corporeal
activities in the building.
Area
Function
Facade
_____ is based on the perfect mastery of all the scientific, technological, and formal prerequisites of the task.
Beauty
Comprehension
Proficiency
A manifesto by Adolf Loos (1908), _____, had great influence on architects.
Accessory and Transgression
Crime and Punishment
Ornament and Crime
Functionalist architects understood how essential it is
to base their design on ______.
theories of architecture
empirical research
thematic theories
The _____ which began around 1760 in England, led to enormous changes at each level of civilization throughout the world.
second industrial revolution
industrial revolution
progressive era
industrial material brought more new building materials which are cast _____ with which architects and engineers rearranged the concept of function, size, and form due to the impact of industrial revolution.
iron
steel
glass
cement
planks
The ______ movement originated in England in the mid-19th century as an antidote to the dehumanizing effects of the industrial revolution.
industrial
arts and crafts
london
Many Europeans, and Americans, dedicated themselves to the styles of ancient Rome and Greece, which we call (a) .
English landscape gardener and designer of hothouses, who was the architect of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London
SIR JORAH MORMONT
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON
SIR JAY GATSBY
, giant glass-and-iron exhibition hall in
Hyde Park, London, that housed the Great Exhibition of
1851.
Crystal Palace
Diamond Palace
Golden Palace
_____, was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails
Elisha Otis
Maeve Wiley
Ncuti Gueneva
A highly successful architect and the first Professor of
Architecture (1876-77) at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
DANIEL BURNHAM
WILLIAM LE BARON JENNEY
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON
He was
instrumental in the development of the skyscraper and was noted for his highly successful management of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and his ideas about urban planning
DANIEL BURNHAM
WILLIAM LE BARON JENNEY
OTTO WAGNER
is widely considered America's first truly modern architect.
OTTO WAGNER
LOUIS SULLIVAN
DANIEL BURNHAM
in one of the worst disasters in US history, the
city of Chicago - then constructed almost exclusively of
wood - was destroyed almost entirely by a great fire.
The rebuilding of the city in stone and steel marked a
revolutionary turning point in the history of
architecture: in particular, the history of (a) construction.
The _____ of 1893 was the first world’s fair held in Chicago.
World’s Columbian Exposition
World's Jamaican Exposition
World's American Exposition
The (a) City showcased chief architect Daniel Burnham’s ideas for a “City Beautiful” movement.
He was an Austrian architect and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.
OTTO WAGNER
DAVID OTTOMAN
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON
He was a European architect who became more famous for his
ideas and writings than for his buildings.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
PETER BEHRENS
ADOLF LOOS
was one of the most significant
European architects before World War I.
OTTO WAGNER
HENDRIK PETRUS BERLAGE
PETER BEHRENS
Wright is celebrated for developing a new type of American home, the Prairie house, elements of which continue to be copied. Streamlined and efficient, Wright's Prairie house designs paved the way for the iconic Ranch Style that became wildly popular in America during the 1950s and 1960s
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
OTTO WAGNER
architect noted for his influential role in the
development of modern architecture in Germany.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
PETER BEHRENS
German-born American architect whose rectilinear
forms, crafted in elegant simplicity, epitomized the
International Style of architecture.
LOUIS SULLIVAN
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
ADOLF LOOS
pioneered European modernism in architecture and laid the foundation for what became the Bauhaus Movement in Germany and the International Style in the US.
PETER BEHRENS
LE CORBUSIER
ADOLF LOOS
emerged in the early-20th century in Italy. It was motivated by anti-historicism and characterized by long horizontal lines and streamlined forms suggesting speed, dynamism, movement and urgency.
FUTURISM
CUBISM
is an Avant-Garde Art movement, which was
distinct in comparison as every other art style was
three-dimensional, this was two dimensional.
CUBISM
FUTURISM
The (a) was founded by the architect Walter Gropius, who combined two schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts
(a) style, architectural style that developed in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s and became the dominant tendency in Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century.
a movement that emerged in the 1960s, described first
in a book called ‘Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture’ by Robert Venturi and later in another
book by him and his wife Denise Scott Brown, ‘Learning
from Las Vegas’.
postmodernism
industrialism
post-industrialism
American architects who proposed alternatives to the functionalist mainstream of 20th-century American architectural design.
Robert Venturi
Denise Scott Brown
Philip Johnson
Daniel Burnham
American architect and critic known both for his promotion of the International Style and, later, for his role in defining postmodernist architecture.
PHILIP JOHNSON
ROBERT VENTURI
LE CORBUSIER
(a) building may be the single most important architectural detail
of the last fifty years.
The physical appearance of _____ is often dominated by large sloping panels which gather solar energy.
ecological architecture
biographical architecture
demographical architecture
