Architecture 101 Midterm

the matrix of components of architecture is used to illustrate how __________ works in architecture

"concept"

Friedrich Kiesler

-"endless house"

Frank Gehry

-Contemporary -Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (subjectivity)

Thomas Jefferson

-Enlightenment/Neo-Classicism

Thomas Jefferson

-Enlightenment/Neo-Classicism -library at UVA

Le Corbusier

-Modernism -Notre Dame du Haut de Ronchamp -Villya Savoye (Vers un Architecture)

Andrea Palladio

-Renaissance -Villa Rotunda

Roman Emperor Hadrian

-antiquity

Le Corbusier's modular system

-belief that you can take the human body as a system of measuring anything in architecture

the image of the "primitive hut" by Laugier shows that...

-classical orders depend on a prototype -columns and beams are more important than walls -researching this idea is a way to find architectural truth -that the rhythm or spacing between columns was just as important as the columns

inspiration for subjective architecture in modern period:

-modern paintings and sculptures -living nature -theater -non-living nature

2 types of modernism

-orthodox -expressionism

Antonio Gaudi

-used unusual structural support systems -Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

Doric

This style of column features simple, heavy columns without bases.

Corinthian

This style of column has elongated capitals that are decorated with leaves.

concept

a form of communication from the built environment to the citizen using it

golden rectangle

a rectangle that can be divided into a square and a rectangle that is similar to the original rectangle

analytique

multiple image drawing that contains as many images the person drawing wants to use

the important thing about how the one square "diagram" related to the matrix of components was...

that a process based on the idea of "diagram" represents the actual purpose of the matrix ("diagram" is the matrix itself)

Which building has a major rounded space in it that was exactly as high as it is wide, thus you could put a sphere in it?

the Ancient Roman Pantheon by Emperor Hadrian in 125 AD

favela

type of uncontrolled slum-like growth (which shows how the future of architecture will have to depend on the fast growing population)