Architecture Quizes

What is this drawing meant to suggest about architecture? (kid with a circle around him on the ground)

This drawing suggests that human is indeed the center of architecture. By using 6 directions plus centre we discover the space and architecture around us.

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

Trees, Cave, High Place, Topography, Water

Ben Jacks identifies four "practices of walking: sighting, reading, measuring, and merging. What is the principle feature of merging as a walking practice?

When you walk around (travel) you meet design in actuality. Architecture and landscape are meaningful only in a full encounter with their details.

Draw a plan (top down) view of a social geometry that would encourage a small group (6 to 8 people) to come together socially:

a round table where people are eating dinner and talking to one another

Describe one possibile "attitude toward ideal geometry" (of the ten such attitudes unwind describes) and explain how that attitude may affect the work of the designer?

-Belief that ideal geometry produces beauty and harmony (beauty and harmony) -when creating a building the architects goal is to reach ideal geometry and the reason for this is because it produces beauty and harmony, and so this will make the designer work as hard as possible to get this. -Certainty that ideal geometry is "right," that it produces perfect form (correct, perfect form) -Submission to ideal geometry's authority (submission to perfection) -Use of ideal geometry as an expression of control ... and subjection of material and people to an abstract ordering principle -Dependency on its legibility, predictability and consistency -Gratitude for the ready-made intellectual structure it offers -Use of it as a counterpoint to irregularity -Investment of it with symbolic or mystical significance -Love of the difficulty and cost of realizing it and expression of power, sacrifice, and status -Playing with it as a game of alignments and coincidences

In modern architecture, as represented by the Villa Savoye (1929) and mies van Der Rohe's Barcelona pavilion (1929), what is the relationship between structural order and spatial order

-Both of these buildings are well organized and show spatial and structural orders in harmony???

what kind of geometry did Maya Lin use in her design of the Vietnam veterans memorial? why?

-Social geometry (social geometry can increase the level of confrontation and she wanted people to interact with other people at the memorial.) -Geometry of making (use of granite to create 2 very straight walls combining in the middle to make a an inviting 'V')

Trace a path demonstrating transition, hierarchy, heart in the plan below of the palace of Tiryns, as unwin describes it.

-Start from the right side and go through long hallway (transition), pass through two court yards (hierarchy), then you get to the throne (heart). -Transition: always that are dynamic and you never are sitting still in usually -Hierarchy: the static rooms between the entrance and the heart, these zones/rooms are usually static to provide maximum privacy. -Heart: center of the building, doesn't need to be the biggest room nor does it have to be the exact central room.

List four possible relationships between structural order and spatial order

-Structural order is dominant -Spatial order is dominant -Spatial and structural orders in harmony -Spatial and structural orders are separated: they co-exist, each obeying their own logic

In architecture one has to deal with a number of different conditions. Identify five of the ten or more conditions Unwin lists that the architect needs to address: (all architects must deal with)

-The ground -Gravity -The weather -Materials -Sizes of people -Bodily needs and functions -Human behavior -Other architecture and places -Functional requirements -The past: history, tradition, etc. -The future: visions of 'utopia' or 'apocalypse' -Processes of time

What do the unwin diagrams below show about the thermal baths at Vals

-Zumthor uses subtraction with the baths at Vals in order to eliminate space and make the experience more intimate.

Identify the six "geometries of being" discussed during the last lecture:

1. Circles of presence 2. Lines of sight 3. Lines of passage 4. Measuring 5. Six directions plus center 6. Social Geometry

Describe several ways that architecture can be considered to be an art of "making frames." Be as specific as possible: 4

1. In a church right above the alter is usually something that architecturally sticks out 2. Structure of a building is made of frames 3. Frames help identify place 4. In nature frames outline the area in which buildings are built upon

Unwin writes: "works of architecture are instruments for managing/manipulating/orchestratingrelationships with the world (with topography, climate, our gods, each other, time . . .) rather than merely sculptural objects. Did the temporary architecture of the clotheslines project affect your experience of the quadrangle around the university seal? how so? "Why does Unwin consider this the best possible definition of architecture?

Around the seal there are usually people talking and socially interacting. During they day the t shirts were up there was sadness and it was quiet because people were admiring the bravery of the people who made the shirts -why best def of arc???

How does the Beyeler foundation (1997) and the student chapel (1957) best exemplify the spatial organization theme of parallel walls

Both of these pieces of architecture are based off two main parallel wall and inside that is where it gets complex. The student chapel spatially organizes the building in three main parts; entrance, social area, worship area. The beveler foundation creates a uniform room that every room is based off, then walls are collapsed to make more rooms stick out in order to give off poetic mood.

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

Front (an in front), a back (a behind), two sides (a left and a right), a top (the above), and sits on the ground (the below) It challenges the authority of the four horizontal directions at right-angles to each other by distortion. It does the same with the vertical dimension. Six directions normally are in reference to the earth and are congruent with a distinct center and right angles.

According to Unwin and the lecture, you could say there are approximately nine "basic elements of architecture." Name 9

Ground, Roof, Opening, Marker, Pit, Platform, Pathway, Wall, Focus

What is ideal geometry

Ideal geometry is trying to reach perfection when it is nearly impossible.

what does unwin say about the location of the throne room?

It is the heart and the heart doesn't need to be the biggest room nor does it have to be the exact central room.

Why is the throne room the heart?

It is the place where people gather most therefore it is the most important room

According to the lecture given last time, there are a number of "modifying elements" of architecture. Name as many of the ten presented as you can: 10

Materials (texture), Use, Smell, Time, Sound, Air Movement, Light (shadow), Temperature, Color, Scale

The primitive place types such as _____, _____, _____, _____ first arose out of human __________________.

Neccessity

one basic element in the image above and name two things that it is doing

Opening; Lets the right amount of light through, the different colored windows reflects different colors displayed indoors

Make a comparative list of attributes of:The archetypal "temple" and The archetypal "cottage"

Temple: Large, Symmetrical, Not submissive, Articulate, Aloof Cottage: Small, Asymmetrical, Submissive, Simple, Not aloof (friendly)

How does Alvar aalato's house at muuratsalo exemplify the idea of occupying the in-between?

The courtyard, although there is no roof, is a room of the house. it is neither completely outside or completely inside so therefore it is in-between

How does the high line shed exemplify the idea of occupying the in-between

There is a large cement slab next to a building with benches, tables, etc. and then this massive awning can go over this area and make the area "indoors" (in between the outdoors and indoors)

The word analyse comes from the Greek analyein, which means to

break apart

How does the geometry of making affect the work of the designer?

by deciding starting materials the deviation of the building will come from the shape that these materials make???

primitive places

hearth, bed, alter, and theatre

what is the difference in attitude toward the position of the human body in II tempieto and Vietnam veterans memorial?

in II tempieto the person is surrounded by geometries of being and more resembles a temple where one would worship and the place is significant. In the Vietnam veterans memorial it is simple and focuses on social geometry as well as geometry of making because it is a memorial. (not so significant)

According to Unwin, architecture is the identification of ___________.

place

How and why does Zumthor's zinc mine museum best exemplify the spatial organization theme of stratification

stratification cannot be confined to spatial organization alone because it is the beauty of the relationship the person shares with the place and how the place relates to the area around it. The mine museum is appropriately placed in a remote location, on the side of a hill so the person can fully experience the 'picture' (environment) the architect is trying to 'paint' (portray)

what is "geometry of making"?

the materials and the way they are put together impose or suggest geometry, and the geometry of buildings conditions the shapes of the spaces they define. (ex. when using bricks, one tends to make rectangular walls, retangular openings, and rectangular enclosures. When using this material it requires a definite decision to deviate from a rectangle.)

"elements such as walls and doorways, roofs and markers are the architectural equivalents of _________________________________" (as in parts of speech in language)

verbs