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ARC 308 Exam 3
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
04/25/2010

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Term
Stoughton House
Definition
H.H. Richardson
Cambridge, Massachussets
(Parlor room which all others branch off of)
Term
Glessner House
Definition
H.H. Richardson
Chicago, Illinois
(Square, has "invisible" worker hall)
Term
History Faculty
Definition
James Stirling
Cambridge, England
(Half glass pyramid, half brick for classes)
Term
Exeter Library
Definition
Louis Kahn
Exeter, New Hampshire
(Cube outside, circles inside)
Term
Indian Institute of Management
Definition
Louis Kahn
Ahmedabad, India
(Small scale city w/ library in center and classes/housing flanking it)
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Baker House Dorm
Definition
Alvar Aalto
MIT
(Looks like a wave, created neighborhoods, everything done to encourage interaction)
Term
Undergraduate Dormitory
Definition
Jose Luis Sert
MIT
(Private lifestyle, like little 60 person houses, kitchenettes at ground floor, courtyards in middle)
Term
La Tourette Montasory
Definition
Le Courbousier
Lyon, France
(Cement, colorless except in chapel)
Term
Paimio Sanatorium
Definition
Alvar Aalto
Finland
(Patients are horizontal, optimize sunlight and open air)
Term
Library, Viipuri Finland
Definition
Alvar Aalto
Viipuri, Finland/Now Russia
(Designs for completely even light source, lecture hall no amplification)
Term
Resurrection Chapel
Definition
Erik Bryggmann
Turku, Finland
(All pews angled towards conforting forest outside)
Term
Why we designate and organize uses (5)
Definition
1. Practical matter
2. Injecting social norms and religious taboos
3. Claiming a place
4. Convenience and Efficiency
5. Inclusion of machines
Term
Conforming uses
Definition
Designing something and using it for a specific use
ie: using a coffin to bury dead people
Term
Implied Uses
Definition
Design something, and it can be used for your idea or some other
ie: coffin to ship someone from one palce to another
Term
Accomidated uses
Definition
Never thought that the thing we designed could be used that way, but it works
ie: using a coffin as a flower pot
Term
Humanism definition (4 parts)
Definition
A doctrine or attutude (1)centered on human interests and values; (2)showing they have a capacity for self-realization (3)through reason; (4)asserting the dignity and worth of man
Term
How Architecture expresses Humanism (6)
Definition
1. Notion of using plain materials
2. Simple construction
3. Comfort
4. Practicality
5. Cleanliness
6. Absence of pretention or ornament
Term
8 ways to assure humanism in a large scale place
Definition
1. Have convenience
2. Combination of activities
3. Richness in the range of people accomidated
4. signs of human presence
5. personal or human scale
6. degree of variety but also with homogenity
7. freedom from intrusion or distration
8. periodic natural relief
Term
Kreseg College
Definition
Charles Moore
University of Santa Cruz
Term
Byker
Definition
Ralph Erskine, et al.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
(Took forever to build bc of humanistic building process; balconies w/ alternating sleeping areas)
Term
San Antonio Riverwalk
Definition
No Architect
Term
Crown (Face) Fountain
Definition
No Architect
Millennium Park, Chicago
Term
Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Definition
Looks like a house out of a horror movie
It is an 18th century house where two large wings accommodate its occupants’ daily activities and frame a Great Hall in the center for ceremonial functions.
Term
The Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier is used as a prominent example by the authors of The Place of Houses both in the chapter on “The Order of Machines” and the chapter on “The Order of Dreams.” Which of the following is an observation they make of the Villa Savoye?
Definition
It has a compelling relationship to one of the most appealing machines of the 1920s—the ocean liner.
Term
3 Ways to communicate through buildings
Definition
1. literal, direct communication- what we see is what we're supposed to think
2. literal, indirect communication- see an object that is a symbol for something (bevo is a symbol of UT)
3. abstract communication- where colors make us feel a certain way, shapes, light, etc. (Logos)
Term
Hindu Temples
Definition
No Architect
Khajuraho, India
(Sex carvings)
Term
University of Virginia
Definition
Thomas Jefferson
Charlottesville, Virginia
(Looks just like the panthenon but brick)
Term
Doge's Palace
Definition
No Architect
Venice, Italy
(2 layers of arcade, on the water and plaza)
Term
Town Hall Characteristics (5)
Definition
1. Tower
2. Focal balcony
3. Arcade
4. Courtyard
5. Stairs
Term
Campidoglio
Definition
Michelangelo
Rome, Italy
(very decorated center courtyard, looks "italian")
Term
Town Hall
Definition
Ragnar Otsberg
Stockholm, Sweden
(Built on a peninsula, also has an interior courtyard for cold times)
Term
City Hall Boston
Definition
Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles
Boston, Massachusetts
(Very Modern twist on the Town hall elements, looks a little like the FAC)
Term
St. Mary's Church
Definition
Pier Luiti Nervi and Pietro Belluschi
San Francisco
(White twisty sails go up to make a cross shaped top, inside light comes through the cross)
Term
LBJ Library
Definition
SOM
Austin; UT Campus
(Perfect place for a firing squad haha)
Term
Austin Bergstrom Airport
Definition
No Architect noted (but really Larry's firm)
Austin, TX
Term
Idea Store
Definition
David Adjae
London, England
(Looks like a glass cube from the outside, durable materials, bright colors, lots of different uses, natural light)
Term
Stata Center
Definition
Frank Ghery
MIT
COOlESt building eVER!!
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