Forms Flashcards
Architecture
give us insight into the nature of our own culture because it is so bound up with the life of a culture as a whole
Persia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt
places where their architecture is characterized by surface decoration unrelated to the structural function of the bearing members
Egypt
The place where the column was shaped as a decorative element first and as a structural member second
Crete
The place where the columns were separated elements which tapered
downwards
Greece
The place where the column was more deliberately expressed as an active element
in the load bearing system
Rome
The place where the arc and vault enormously enlarged the scope of the building and allowed much more expansive spaces
Arc and Vault
This type of construction became a dominant theme in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic architecture
Gothic Architecture
An architecture where the creative expression was inspired by the art
of transferring forces
Renaissance
Form of architecture where the ultimate goal was a harmonious composition of
the geometrical shapes in the façade
Renaissance
The period where there was a tendency to express forces by means of building forms
Baroque
The architecture where space
expressed movement in excessive undulating forms
Modernism
the first style that did not permit eclecticism
Form
the primary identifying characteristic of a volume, it is determined by the shape and interrelationships of the planes that describe the boundaries of a volume
Shape
The principal identifying characteristic of form
Shape
results from the specific configuration of a form’s surface and edges.
Size
the real dimensions of form, its length, width, and depth
Color
the hue, intensity, and total value of form’s surface
Color
the attribute that most clearly distinguishes a form from its environment
Color
It also affects the visual weight of a
form
Texture
the surface characteristics of a form
Texture
affects both tactile and light-reflective qualities of a form’s surfaces
Position
a form’s location relative to the environment or visual field
Orientation
a form’s position relative to the ground plane, the compass points, or to the person viewing the form
Visual Inertia
the degree of concentration and stability of a form
Visual Inertia
depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative to the ground plane and our line of sight
Conditions that affect the properties of forms
perspective, distance, lighting, visual surrounding
Properties of Form
Shape, size, color, texture, position, orientation, visual inertia
Shape
a plane’s primary identifying characteristic
Shape
It refer to the edge of a plane or the silhouette of a volume
Shape
It is the primary means by which
we recognize and identify the
form of the object
Circle
A plane curve every point of which is equidistant from a fixed point within the
curve
Triangle
A plane figure bounded by three sides and
having three angles
Square
A plane figure having four equal sides and four right angle
Circle
s a centralized, introverted figure that is normally stable and self-centering in its environment.
Triangle
signifies stability
Square
represents the pure and the rational
Surface
refers to any figure having only two dimensions, such as a flat plane
Surface
allude to a curved two dimensional locus of points defining the boundary of a three dimensional solid.
Classes of curved surface
Cylindrical, transitional, ruled, rotational, paraboloids, hyperbolic
Cylindrical Surfaces
are generated by sliding a straight line
along a plane curve, or vice versa
Translational Surfaces
are generated by sliding a plane curve along a straight line or over another plane curve.
Ruled Surfaces
are generated by the motion of a straight line
Rotational Surfaces
are generated by rotating a plane curve about an axis
Paraboloids
are surfaces all of whose intersections by planes are either parabolas and ellipses or parabolas and hyperbolas
Parabolas
are plane curves generated by a moving point that remains equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point not on the line
Hyperbolas
are plane curves formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane that cuts both halves of the cone
Hyperbolic Paraboloids
are surfaces generated by sliding a parabola with downward curvature along a parabola with upward curvature, or by sliding a straight line segment with its ends on
two skew lines.
Sphere
A solid generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center.
