Architecture Flashcards
The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, which a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgements concerning works of art.
Aesthetics
The aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives intense pleasure to the sense or deep satisfaction to the mind or spirit, whether arising from harmony or form or color, excellence of craft truthfulness, originality, or other, often unspecific property.
Beauty
Critical judgement, discernment, or appreciation of what is fitting, harmonious, or beautiful prevailing in a culture or personal to an individual.
Taste
A high degree of pleasure or enjoyment
Delight
The ordering of the physical environment by means of architecture, engineering, construction, landscape architecture, urban design, and city planning
Environmental Design
The aspect of architecture and city planning that deals with the design of urban structures and spaces
Urban Design
The activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and conditions of a community, involving an appraisal of the current conditions, a forecast of the future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for legal, financial, and constructional programs to implement the plan
City Planning, Town Planning, Urban Planning
The art, business, or profession of planning the design and supervising the execution of architectural interiors, including their color schemes, furnishings, fittings, finishes, and sometimes architectural features
Interior Design
The aspect of architecture and interior design that deals with the planning, layout, design, and furnishing of spaces within a proposed or existing building.
Space Planning
A branch of knowledge dealing with a body of facts or truths obtained by direct observation, experimental investigation, and methodical study, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws
Science
The conscience use of skill, craft, and creative imagination in the production of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance
Art
Applied science: the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical methods and materials, and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment
Technology
The science of an art or the arts in general
Technics
The science or art of shaping, ornamenting, or assembling materials in building construction
Tectonics
The unifying structure or concept of an artistic work
Architectonics
The state or quality of being solidly constructed
Firmness
The art and science of applying scientific principles to practical ends in the design and construction of structures, machines, and systems.
Engineering
Any of the sciences, such as sociology and anthropology, that seek to discover general truths from the observation of human behaviours in society.
Behavioural Science
The science of human social institutions and relationships, specifically the study of the origin, development, structure, functioning, and collective behaviour of organized groups of human beings
Sociology
The science of human beings specifically the study of the origins, physical and cultural development, and environmental and social relations of humankind
Anthropology
The art, business, or profession of designing, arranging, or modifying the features of a landscape for aesthetic or practical reasons
Landscape Architecture
An approach to architecture that strives to counter a lack of identity or sense of place by utilizing the geographical context of a building to guide its design response to topography, climate, light, and tectonic form
Regionalism
