RANDOM Flashcards
These constituted the barriers to migration since the earliest periods of civilization
(mountains; deserts; seas…)
Geography
Visible architecture is composed of:
Volume & Depth
Primary shapes that can be extended or rotated to generate volume whose forms are
distinct, regular and easily recognizable
Platonic Solids
One of four basic possibilities for two forms to group together. This requires that the two
forms be relatively close to each other or share a common visual trait.
Face to face contact
Defined geometrically as a line that is divided such that the lesser portion is to the greater as
the greater is to be the whole.
Golden section
One type of cues used in depth perception where in one object appears to cut off the view of
another
Juxtaposition
Is the attribute that most clearly distinguishes a form from its environment.
Color
The most important kind of character in architecture is that which result from the purpose of
the building or reason of erection.
personal character
Most elementary means of organizing forms and spaces in architecture.
Balance
Characterized by an arrangement where all the part radiate from a center like the spikes in a
wheel.
centralized
It means equality
balance
It gives a feeling of grandeur, dignity and monumentality.
scale
When lines, planes, and surface treatments are repeated in a regular sequence.
rhythm
A kind of character that came from the influence of ideas and impressions related to or
growing out of past experience.
assoc. character
It is evident by a comparison which the eye makes between the size, shape and tone of a
various object or part of a competition.
proportion
Deals with the relationship between the different parts of the whole to the various parts.
balance
It bears a certain relation to the same attribute to the life of an individual.
personal character
This refer to the manner in which the surface of a form come together to define its
shape and volume.
articulation of form
Who said “The will of the epoch translated into space’
adolf hitler
A collection of forms grouped together by proximity or the sharing of a common
visual trait.
grid form
Architecture is generally conceived, designed and realized.
design process
Is a commercial building with several small scale entrepreneurs who sell their commodities
in a limited space or
modules that provide them low rentals for the buyers to avail cheaper merchandize, both to
retail and wholesale.
tiangge
human factor engineering
ergonomics
Early type of settlement in America taken after the “baug”
(military town) and “fauborg” (citizen’s town) of the medieval ages.
medieval organic city
Le Corbusier planned a high density building that was a “super
building” that contained 337 dwellings in only acres of land. What is
the structure that supposed to be located in Marseilles?
unite d’ habitation
It is the first Development Garden City where it is a combination
of landscaping, informal street layouts, and main axis focusing on
town center
letchwork
A British pioneered in regional Planning for the Doncaster area
(1920-1922) and East Kent; Involved in greater London Plan; Use of
open space as structuring element
leslie patrick abercrombrie
He is remembered for his “Ideal Cities” – star shaped plans with
street radiating from central point, usually proposed for a church,
palace or castle
leon battista alberti
Whose theory is the explanation of residential land uses in terms
of wedge-shaped sectors radial to the city center along established
lines of transportation.
homer hoyt
Published the book called “Fields, Factories and Workshops; or
Industry Combined with Agriculture with manual work”.
peter kropotkin
Often enclosed and secluded the street, whose high density and
variety of planning conveys a garden image. It sometimes includes
flower planters and a water feature and usually supplies a variety of
seating possibilities.
garden oasis
A wide area of parks of undeveloped land surrounding a community.
greenbelt
The process in which a piece of land, referred to as the parent tract, is subdivided into two or more
parcels.
platting
Angles measured clockwise from any meridian, usually north; however, the National Geodetic Survey
uses south.
azimuths
