Intro to Architecture Midterm October
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
Vers un Architecture
