New Vernacular Flashcards
It was a later Roman theorist, ????, who categorised the classical architecture of Greece into the orders’
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The term Gothic for architecture of medieval Europe as a term of abuse invented by the Renaissance historian ????? In 1550.
Vasari
For most of history architects have not set out to design a certain ?????
Style
Who is the architect?
Santiago Calatrava
A photo of the prototype of the main structural system of the building. Who is the architect?
Renzo Piano
It is not possible to understand a modern building without knowing its ????
Plan
This is the ground floor plan of which famous building by Le corb?
Villa Savoye
One is that architecture as a social phenomenon will have to cater to increasing populations… the other area that cannot be ignored is the fantastic????? Development
Technological
Two basic ways of building?
Stacking and framing
The commonest is making a frame of wood and covering it with material keeping our sun and rain. But the most primitive is to lay stones of the walls on top of one another gradually curving the walls inwards to meet at the top.
What is this called?
Corbelling
1st fundamental form is lost and lintel.
2nd fundamental form is ?????
Arch