WorksheetsArch 161 Midterms Study
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 35mins
It is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings.
Engineering
Carpenter
Construction
Architecture
It's the conscious use of skill, craft, and creative imagination in the production of what is beautiful, appealing.
Architecture
Art
Aesthetics
Beauty
The branch of Philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgements.
Art
Delight
Aesthetics
Beauty
The aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives intense pleasure to the senses or deep satisfaction of the mind or spirt.
Beauty
Aesthetics
Art
Taste
A high degree of pleasure or enjoyment.
Aesthetics
Delight
Taste
Art
It's the critical judgement, discernment, or appreciation of what is fitting, harmonious
or beautiful prevailing in a culture or personal.
Taste
Art
Delight
Aesthetics
The aspect of architecture and interior design that deals with the planning, layout. design, and furnishing
of spaces within a proposed or existing building.
Engineering
Technology
Interior Design
Space Planning
The art, business, or profession of planning the design and supervising the
execution of architectural interiors.
Urban Design
Environmental Design
Interior Design
Exterior Design
The aspect of architecture and city planning that deals with the design
of urban structures and spaces.
Urban Design
Interior Design
Environmental Design
Technology Design
The ordering of the physical environment by means of architecture, engineering, construction,
landscape architecture, urban design, and city planning.
Urban Design
Environmental Design
City Design
Interior Design
A branch of knowledge dealing with a body of facts or truths obtained by direct observation, experimental
investigation, and methodical study, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.
Mathematics
Chemistry
Science
Engineering
Applied science: the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical methods and materials,
and their Interrelation with life, society, and the environment.
Science
Architecture
Engineering
Technology
The art and science of applying scientific principles to practical ends in the design and
construction of structures, equipment and systems.
Engineering
Architecture
Behavioral S]tesss mommmy
Any of the sciences, as sociology and anthropology, that seek to discover general truths
from the observation of human behavior in society.
Engineering
Behavioral Science
Chemistry
It's the Greek word for architecture.
Arkitekkon
Arkitekton
Arkhetekton
Arkhitekton
A purposeful activity aimed at devising a plan for changing an existing situation into a future preferred state.
Schematics
Programming
Design Process
Design Development
Which does this fall under?
Determining client needs, preferences, operations and aspirations
Programming
Schematics
Contract Documents
Construction
Which does this fall under?
Determine project constraints, parameters
Construction Administration
Programming
Schematics
Design Development
Which does this fall under?
Problem definition
Construction Administration
Design Development
Schematics
Programming
Which does this fall under?
Concept getting towards solution
Schematics
Design Development
Contract Documents
Programming
Which does this fall under?
Collaboration of different disciplines as demanded by the design
Design Development
Schematics
Contract Documents
Construction Administration
Which does this fall under?
Formulating schemes with client involvement
Construction Administration
Contract Documents
Programming
Schematics
Which does this fall under?
Production of working drawings, estimates and specifications
Programming
Design Development
Contract Documents
Schematics
Which does this fall under?
Making the scheme definitive and realistic
Programming
Schematics
Design Development
Contract Documents
Which does this fall under?
Decision making on specific concerns
Design Development
Contract Documents
Construction Administration
Programming
Which does this fall under?
Preparation of bid documents and selection of contractors
Schematics
Contract Documents
Construction Administration
Design Development
Which does this fall under?
Application of various government permits
Construction Administration
Design Development
Programming
Contract Documents
Which does this fall under?
Design implementation
Contract Documents
Programming
Design Development
Construction Administration
Which does this fall under?
the architects' role vary depending on the demand of the project and client
Construction Administration
Schematics
Contract Documents
Programming
Which does this fall under?
Management and administration of construction
Programming
Contract Documents
Schematics
Construction Administration
It is a form that is proportionally similar in all dimensions (base or plinth).
Shape
Form
Plane
Mass
It is a form that is proportionally similar in two dimensions and significantly smaller in the third (wall).
Plane
Shape
Form
Void
A system for the way generic forms are assembled in order to define the space.
Architecture
Tectonics
Arcadia
Tertiary Architecture
the Greek word "tektonikos" meaning what?
sketching a layout
power in the pen
making a sketch
pertaining to construction.
It refers to the physical character of architecture. It defines the limits of space and determines ways it might be inhabited.
Void
Visual Weight
Form
Shape
It is a form that is proportionally similar in two dimensions and significantly longer in the third (beam).
Mass
Frame
Plane
Hearth
Your Mom
It is any formal element that acts as a focal point.
Hearth
Mass
Plane
Frame
The characteristic outline or surface configuration of a particular form. It's the principal
aspect by which we identify and categorize forms.
Shape
Form
Plane
Your Mom
It is the physical dimensions of length, width, and depth of a form.
Size
Form
Scale
Dimensions
It is a phenomenon of light and visual perception that may be described in terms
of an Individual's perception of hue, saturation, and tonal value.
Tint
Hue
Color
Texture
It is the visual and especially tactile quality given to a surface by the
size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of the parts.
Saturation
Contrast
Color
Texture
It is the location of a form relative to Its environment or the visual field within which it is seen.
Position
Visual Inertia
Visual Weight
Orientation
It is the direction of a form relative to the ground plane, the compass points,
other forms, or to the person viewing the form.
Plane
Orientation
Shape
Position
It is the degree of concentration and stability of a form.
Visual Inertia
Visual Stability
Visual Weight
Your Mom
It refers to any figure having only two dimensions, such as a flat plane. It can also allude to a curved two-dimensional locus of points defining the boundary of a three-dimensional solid.
Texture
Surface
Plane
Form
A form can be transformed by subtracting a portion of its volume.
Addictive Transformation
Dimensional Transformation
Transformation
Subtractive Transformation
A form can be transformed by the addition of elements to its volume.
Your Mom is transforming
Addictive Transformation
Subtractive Transformation
Dimensional Transformation
This type of relationship relles on the close proximity of the forms or their sharing of
a common visual trait, such as shape, color, or material.
Spatial Tension
Edge to Edge Contact
Face to Face Contact
Interlocking Volumes
In this type of relationship, the forms share a common edge and can pivot about that edge.
Edge to Edge Contact
Interlocking Volume
Spatial Tension
Surface Articulation
This type of relationship requires that the two forms have corresponding planar
surfaces which are parallel to each other.
Spatial Tension
Interlocking Volumes
Face-to-Face Contact
Edge to Edge Contact
In this type of relationship, the forms interpenetrate each other's space.
Spatial Tension
Interlocking Volumes
Face to Face Contact
Edge To Edge Contact
Our perception of the shape, size, scale, proportion, and visual weight of a plane is
influenced by its surface properties as well as its visual context.
Texture
Visual Inertia
Visual Weight
Surface Articulation
Which categories of concern in concept getting does this fall under?
space organization, space relationship and arrangement; Client operations.
Building envelope
Functional Grouping and Zoning
Architectural space
Response to Context
Which categories of concern in concept getting does this fall under?
Quality of space, interiors. Provision of comfort and enhancement of function and experience.
Architectural space
Circulation and Building form
Response to Context
Functional Grouping and Zoning
Which categories of concern in concept getting does this fall under?
exterior façade, roof, fenestrations, materials and utilities involved.
Functional Grouping and Zoning
Architectural space
Circulation and Building form
Building envelope
Which categories of concern in concept getting does this fall under?
Building character, accessibility, efficiency of layouts and utilities
Building envelope
Response to Context
Functional Grouping and Zoning
Circulation and Building form
Which categories of concern in concept getting does this fall under?
site planning, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, landscape concerns, environmental and ecological considerations
Functional Grouping and Zoning
Response to Context
Circulation and Building form
Architectural space
It's moving in or forming a straight line and is characterized by straight lines.
Rectilinear
Curvilinear
Linear
Radial
The arranging of parts or elements into proper proportion or relation so as to form a unified whole.
Perspective
Position
Orientation
Composition
volume is the largest element, the most interesting and dramatic in character.
Dominant
Subdominant
Subordinate
Lei is Dominant
complements the dominant in character.
Dominant
Subdominant
Subordinate
Lei is Dominant
makes the design still more interestingly by introducing a third visual element and axis.
Dominant
Subdominant
Subordinate
Lei is Dominant
It refers to the proportion within a form: length to width to thickness.
Comparative Proportions
Inherent Proportion
Overall Proportion
They are the proportions of one form in relation to another, think of a tall, thin person
compared with a short, stocky one.
Comparative Proportions
Inherent Proportion
Overall Proportion
It refers to the character or overall configuration of a group of forms.
Comparative Proportions
Inherent Proportion
Overall Proportion
It refers to an imaginary line through the center of the longest dimension of the
form and indicates the strongest movement of form.
Parallel lines
Perpendicular lines
Skew lines
Axis
It describes a situation in which the axis of a volume, plane, or line need the axis (axes) of other volumes.
Interdependent Balance
Dependent Balance
Independent Balance
Precarious Balance
It refers to the condition in which a line or volume in a static composition is independently
related to the vertical and or the horizontal axis.
Independent Balance
Interdependent Balance
Dependent Balance
Precarious Balance
It describes the situation in which one gets the feeling of balance but ever so slightly-
Interlocking Balance
Dependent Balance
Precarious Balance
Independent Balance
