Design Flashcards
The state or quality of being solidly constructed.
Firmness
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
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 condition of a community, involving an appraisal o the current conditions, a forecast of 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 interior, 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
The art and science of applying scientific principles to practical ends in the design and construction of structures, machine, and systems.
Engineering
The art, business, or profession of designing, arranging, or modifying the features of a landscape for aesthetic or practical reasons.
Landscape architecture
The shape and structure of something as distinguished from its substance or material.
Form
The outline or surface configuration of a particular form or figure. While form or figure. While form usually refers to the principle that gives unity to a whole and often includes a sense of mass or volume.
Shape
The visual and esp. tactile quality of a surface, apart from its color or form.
Texture
The edge or contour of a shape.
Line
A mark or figure having a conventional meaning and used in place of a word or phrase to express a complex notion.
Sign
A method or manner of jointing that makes the united parts clear, distinct, and precise in relation to each other.
Articulation
A unified composition of two-dimension shape or three-dimensional volumes, esp. one that has or gives the impression of weight, density, and bulk.
Massing
An individual, minute, or subordinate part of a whole.
Detail
The creation and organization of formal elements in a work of art.
Design
An artistic or decorative design, esp. one having a characteristic arrangement and considered as a unit, of which an idea can be given by a fragment.
Pattern
Characterized or produced by addition, accumulation, or uniting, often resulting in a new identity.
Additive
Characterized or produced by removal of a part or portion without destroying a sense of the whole.
Subtractive
A fundamental and comprehensive concept of visual perception for structuring an aesthetic composition.
Design principle
The state or quality of being combined into one, such as the ordering of elements in an artistic work that constitutes a harmonious whole or promotes a singleness of effect.
Unity
A condition of logical. harmonious os comprehensible arrangement in which each element of a group is properly disposed with reference to other elements and to its purpose.
Order
The state or quality of being identical, homogeneous, or regular.
Uniformity
Uniform in structure throughout or composed of parts that are all of the same nature or kind.
Homogeneous
Uniformly or even formed or arranged.
Regular
The state or quality of lacking variety.
Monotony
The state or quality of having varied or diverse forms, types, or characteristics.
Variety
Stress or prominence given to an element of a composition by means of contrast, anomaly, or counterpoint.
Emphasis
Opposition or juxtaposition of dissimilar elements in a work of art intensify each element’s properties and produce a more dynamic expressiveness.
Contrast
A deviation from the normal or expected form, order, or arrangement.
Anomaly
The state or quality of being a whole composed of complicated, intricate, or interconnected parts.
Complexity
An artistic composition of often diverse elements in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition.
Collage
The orderly, pleasing, or congruent arrangement of the element or parts in an artistic whole.
Harmony
The state or quality of being alike in substance, essentials, or characteristics.
Similarity
Nearness in place, order, or relation.
Proximity
Arrangement in or adjustment according to a straight line.
Alignment
A system of elements ranked, classified, and organized one above another, according to importance or significance.
Hierarchy
The state or position of being placed close together or side by side, so as to permit comparison or contrast.
Juxtaposition
A state of rest or balance between contrasting elements or opposing forces.
Equilibrium
An equal distribution of weight, relationship, or forces.
Equipoise
A counterbalancing weight or force.
Counterpoise
The pleasing or harmonious arrangement or proportion of parts or elements in a design or composition.
Balance
The exact correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane, or about a center or axis.
Symmetry
Symmetry resulting from the arrangement of similar parts on opposite sides of a median axis.
Bilateral symmetry
Symmetry resulting from the arrangement of similar, radiating parts about a center point or central axis.
Radial symmetry
Movement characterized by a patterned repetition or alteration of formal elements or motifs in the same or a modified form.
Rhythm
The act or process of repeating formal elements or motifs in a design.
Repetition
A space between two objects, points, or states.
Interval
A process or change taking place by degrees or through a series of gradual, successive stages.
Gradation
The comparative, proper, or harmonious relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
Proportion
A certain proportionate size, extent, r degree, usually judged in relation to some standard or point of reference.
Scale
A unit of measurement used for standardizing the dimensions of building materials or regulating the proportions of an architectural composition.
Module
The size or proportion of a building element or space, or an article of furniture, relative to the structural or functional dimensions of the human body.
Human Scale
An applied science concerned with the characteristics of people that need to be considered in the design of devices and systems in order that people and things will interact effectively and safely.
Ergonomics
The measurement and study of the size and proportions of the human body.
Anthropometry
To conceive, contrive, or devise the form and structure of a building or other construction.
Design
A purposeful activity aimed at devising a plan for changing an existing situation into a future preferred state, esp. the cyclical, iterative process comprising the following phases.
Design process
A systematic series of actions or operations leading or directed to a particular end.
Process
A particular stage in a process of change or development.
Phase
A procedure for solving a problem, such as a statement setting forth the context, conditions, requirements, and objectives for a design project.
Program
Identifying a problem and its social, economic, and physical context.
Initiation
Collecting and analyzing relevant information and establishing goals and criteria for an acceptable solution.
Preparation
Discovering constraints and opportunities, and hypothesizing possible alternative solutions.
Synthesis
Formulating a tentative assumption in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences.
hypothesis
One of the propositions or courses of action to be chosen from a set of two or more mutually exclusive possibilities.
Alternative
A preliminary versions of a plan or design.
Draft
Simulating, testing, and modifying acceptable alternatives according to specified goals and criteria.
Evaluation
The process of changing in form or structure through a series of discrete permutations and manipulations in response to a specific context or set of conditions without a loss of identity or concept.
Transformation
A bend, angle, or similar change in the shape of a configuration, by means of which a change of relationship to some context or condition is indicated.
Inflection
To express, convey, or interchange ideas, information, or the like by writing, speaking, or through a common system of signs or symbols, esp. in a way that is clearly and readily understood.
Communicate
The offering of a plan for consideration, acceptance, or action.
Proposal
The natural or proper action for which something is designed, used, or exists.
Function
A full-sized model of a building or structure, built accurately to scale for study, testing, or teaching.
Mock-up
A miniature representation usually built to scale, to show the appearance or construction of something.
Model
Abstract thought or speculation resulting in a system of assumptions or principles used in analyzing, explaining, or predicting phenomena, and proposed or followed as the basis of action.
Theory
Thought of without reference to a concrete reality or a particular instance.
Abstract
Actual performance or application of principles, as distinguished from theory.
Practice
A system classification or study of types according to structural features.
Typology
A number of things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes or characteristics.
Type
An original model or pattern on which all things of the same kind are copied or based.
Archetype
A reproduction of an original.
Ectype
An early and typical example that exhibits the essential features of a class or group and on which later stages are based or judged.
prototype
An example serving as a pattern for imitation or emulation in the creation of something.
model
Contextual, casual, or logical relations or associations of something observed or imagined.
Connection
The ability to transcend traditional ideas, patterns, or relationships and to initiate meaningful new ideas, forms, or interpretations.
Creativity
The creative ability to imagine or express in an independent and induvidual manner.
Originality
A thought or notion resulting from mental awareness, understanding, or activity.
Idea
A mental image or formulation of what something is or ought to be, esp. an idea generated from particular characteristics or instances.
Concept
A concept for the form, structure, and features of a building or other construction, represented graphically by diagrams, plans, or other drawings.
Design concept
An underlying organitional pattern or structure for a design.
Scheme
The original scheme for a design presented in the form of sketch outlining its specific character, to be developed in detail in later studies.
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