ARC 188 Mid-Term

How is time interpreted in Zumthor's Thermal Baths at Vals?

Time is suspended because there are only 2 clocks in the whole building

Form does NOT equal....

function

Examples of why primitive places were created

Warmth/Dry Food Storage Sleeping Teaching Fighting Socializing Worship Politics Death Wealth

What is the principle feature of sighting as a walking practice?

While we walk we make visual connections between parts of the landscape

The word analyse comes from the Greek word analyein, with means...

to loose or break apart

Why does Unwin consider "place" the best possible definition of architecture?

Because architecture is a place any one can stay, accommodate life, a focus point or a pit. All of these things are places.

Why does Unwin discuss the Vitra Fire Station in his discussion of "six directions plus center"

Because of the weird angles and diagonals of the fire station it makes you aware of the six directions plus center more intensely

Name five "things that are there" that humans have used to make architecture

Cave Other buildings Trees Topography Water

Circles of presence includes what three types of circles....

Circle of visibility-Distant Circle of Place-Intermediate Circle of Touch Ability-Intimate

Name the four geometries of being

Circles of Presence Lines of Passage Lines of Sight Measuring

List two examples of social geometry

Confrontation-arm wrestle Togetherness-sit on coach together

Describe four different ways that architecture can be considered to be an art of "making frames"

Dinner Table Church Fences Soccer Field Flags

What are the primitive place types?

Heart Bed Altar Theater

"6 directions plus center can be seen to be inherent at 3 levels of being..." what are the 3 levels?

In ourselves as humans Original Nature of the world Places we make through architecture

What is the principle feature of measuring as a walking practice?

Involves ordinary walking to determine the dimensions of land and relative locations of objects

What are the ten modifying elements?

Light Smell Uses Temperature Scale Time Sound Air Management Color Materials LUS(3)T(2) CAM

Characteristics of an archetypal cottage

Local materials used Community/family activities Non-Symmetrical Attributes Not raised up Woven into the environment

Characteristics of an archetypal temple

Non-local materials used Worship Symmetrical Attributes Raised up (hill or platform) Separated from the environment

What is the principle feature of merging as a walking practice?

Plunging into the immediate environment around you, it involves the weighted awareness of time and consciousness as a social quality distant from everyday life.

What are the nine basic elects of architecture?

Roof Floor Openings Pit Platform Focus Marker Wall Path

What are the four practices of walking?

Sighting Reading Measuring Merging

What is the principle feature of reading as a walking practice?

The traveler navigates the landscape using stories as a guide and landscape helps traveler to remember stories

Our social interaction is ________________ (social geometry)

architectural

exercises in architecture by simon unwin book cover (child encircling himself in dirt)

architecture is for everyone of all ages, it starts when we are young with our creative pure minds as seen in this drawing

________ is the essential burden of language and _______ is the essential burden of architecture

meaning place

The primitive place types such as hearth, bed, altar, and theater first arose out of human __________.

necessity

According to Unwin, architecture is the identification of....

place

Unwin writes: "works of architecture are instruments for managing/manipulation/orchestrating relationships with the world (with topography, climate, our gods, each other, time...) rather than merely ______________ objects"

sculptural

All architecture must deal with: (list)

the ground gravity weather materials sizes of people bodily needs and functions human behavior other architecture and places functional requirements history/tradition the future/visions processes of time

An element doing one or more things can lead to ______________________. An example of this includes _____________.

unintentional consequences skateboards using ramps

"Elements such as walls and doorways, roofs and markers are the architectural equivalent of ________" (as in parts of speech in language)

verbs

Six directions plus center-cell of Space

where a person is in a horizontal 3d box with a flat roof

Six directions plus center-space like us

where a person is standing in a horizontal 3d box with a cone roof