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