Humanities Ch. 6 – Flashcards
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Four Types of Architecture
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Earth-rooted, sky-oriented, Earth-resting, and Earth-dominating
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Four necessities
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Technical requirements, function, spatial relationships, and content
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Centered space
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the arrangement of things around some paramount thing (Piazza in the Vatican)
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Space and Architecture
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there is a relationship between inner and outer space, and the architect builds it so that the relationship is interesting
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Architecture Orders Senses
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Puts us in harmony with sounds, smells, temperatures, breezes, volumes, masses, colors, etc
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Chartre
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Many aspects of the church building provoke strong emotions, holiness, harmony
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Living Space
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the feeling of the comfortable positioning of things in the environment
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Four Necessities of Architecture
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architects must perform a social function by fullinng technical requirements, function, spatial relationships, and revelatory requirements
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Technical Requirements of Architecture
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Buildings must be able to stand and withstand, know their limits, and hold up against time
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Functional Requirements of architecture
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Buildings stand so they can reveal their function or use
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Cantilever
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a structural principle in architexture in which one end of a horizontal form is fixed - usually in a wall - while the other end juts out over space
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Spatial Requirements of Architecture
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to fix the technical and functional requirements of a building
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Revelatory Requirements of Architecture
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The form of a building reveals its function (subject matter), preserves the past, and is a reflection of society in the state of the architect's mind
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Earth-rooted Architecture
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the architecture is rooted in the earth's rich resources - allowing buildings to act as a "natural symbolism"
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Site
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the place where a building rests, with its submission to gravity, its raw materials, and centrality in outer space
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Earth dominating architecture
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Architecture that makes it seem like humans dominate everything.
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Sky-oriented architecture
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Structures that seem to defy gravity
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Earth-resting architecture
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the earth appears as a stage, seems to "sit on" the earth
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Post-and-lintel
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Column and horizontal piece that goes across it
