Intro to Architecture Midterm October

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53% live in cities

What percentage of the earth's population live in cities?

The figural volume

A figure that is concerned with one thing; shape

Place

Can be spatial or non-spatial. Typically the result of humanity assigning meaning to one part of a larger territory. Only requires x & y coordinates.

Stourhead Estate

Colin Campbell

Space

Deliberate in form -- and geometrically determined by x, y, & z coordinates

1900: 10%, 2007: 50%, 2030: 75%

How many people lived in cities in 1900 and 2007, and how many people will live in cities by 2030?

The Sunlit Hours

Les Heures Claires

The elemental building

Many different things; a still life composed of many forms

The open-ended system

Many similar things; the element of systematic replication

The figural volume The elemental building The open-ended system

Mode refers to three compositional types

Rachofsky House

Richard Meier

Cover only 2% of the earth's surface yet account for 76% of all economic activity and 85% of all scientific innovation.

The 40 largest mega-city regions in the world only cover [what?] of the earth's surface yet account for [what?] of all scientific innovation

Image

The appearance of a building (e.g. temple, factory)

Tiananmen Square

The screen that simulates clear weather

Parti

The way or method that develops s building, largely understood as an arrangement in plan

A Machine for Feeling

Une Machine a Emouvoir

A Machine/Instrument for living

Une Machine a Habiter

Blenheim Palace

Vanbrugh

Towards an (one) Architecture

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