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INTRO ARCH quiz 1
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Architecture
Graduate
09/24/2014

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Ise Shrine
Emperor Temmu
690 AD Uji-Tachi, Japan
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Ball Eastaway House

Glenn Murcutt

Sydney AUS 1983
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Pantheon
Hadrian
Rome, Italy 126 AD
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Tempietto
Donato Bramante
Rome, Italy 1502
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San Carlo Alle Quatro Fontane

Fancesco Borromini

Rome, Italy 1641
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San Carlo Alle Quatro Fontane

Francesco Borromini

Rome, Italy 1641
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Cenotaph to Newton

Etienne-Louis Boullee

1784
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Staatsgalerie

James Stirling

Stuttgart, Germany 1983
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The Great Pyramid

Cheops

Giza, Egypt 2560 BC
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Diocletion's Palace

Emporer Diocletion

Split, Croatia 305 AD
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The Running Fence Project

Christo

California 1976
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Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson

Great Salt Lake, Utah 1970
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Parthenon

Ictinos and Callicrates

Athens, Greece 432 BC
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Loftin notes that Marc-Antonie Laugier writes that classical architecture arises out of the "primitive hut". What does Laugier mean?
Definition
How something is put together and stands up
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What is Vernacular Architecture?
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A particular local building pattern handed down.
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What did Heidegger mean by "Dwelling"?
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when you feel safety and contentment
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How can buildings "speak" to us?
Definition
When they make us feel something psychologically.
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Why Build with Straw-Bale?
Definition
it is a renewable resource and energy efficient (great insulation)
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Name three environmentally sensitive elements used at the Roaring Fork Valley Waldorf School.
Definition
1) straw-bale
2) south facing windows
3) solar hot water collectors
4) recycled cotton
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What are the three types of sheltering?
Definition
Sheltering from the Environment
Sheltering for "Dwelling"
Sheltering for Function
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What happens when shelter promotes feelings of safety and contentment?
Definition
a simple shelter becomes a "dwelling"
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The early definition for architect is "master builder".. why?
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Greek word Arch- master techne - builder

master of letting appear/letting us know who or where we are
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According to Laugier where does architecture begin?
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The primitive hut.. the most basic form of shelter based on simple construction
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German roots of building...
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baun - to cultivate woun- to be at peace in a place
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The treasury of Atreus is not actually shaped like a dome. What is it shaped like?
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A beehive
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How was the Tempietto, as proposed, a model of the world?
Definition
The tiny circular colonnade and dome recreated earth/sky and us/heavens
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What is one of the most prevelant models of the world in western culture?
Definition
the dome
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Asplund's Children's chapel models what?
Definition
The dome of Heaven
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The koran describes paradise as...? Why?
Definition
Two Gardens... to create a heaven on earth in anticipation of heaven.. earthly pleasures
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The first problem in understanding the Great Pyramid is: how was it built?
Definition
1st solution: straight ramp
2nd solution: switchback ramp
3rd solution: lever mechanisim
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When was the first entry to the Great Pyramid?
Definition
813 AD by Abdullah al Mamun
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The second problem of the Great Pyramid is its internal order..
Definition
26 degrees, 17min - descending path
three granite plugs (20 tons) [built as platform the sealed]
grand gallery - 28' high/ 26 degrees, 17 min
Kings chamber empty

"telescope"
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What is important about regulating lines?
Definition
They rationalize the placement of features in a building and integrate human proportions.
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How can building be like a tree?
Definition
Provides more to the environment than it takes away and it changes with the season.
Term
Name the (4) approaches to regionalism in architecture and give a brief example.
Definition
from territory for territory "design for place not time"

1) folkloric - using elements for symbolism

2)ideologic - using principals of modern architecture which have been justified through vernacular.

3) experimental - it echo's material qualities and spatial character of the vernacular.

4) anthropological - responds to the users perception
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Heschong says we should try for a more symbiotic relationship with natural forces. why?
Definition
relates to roman/Japanese baths and Islamic gardens
energy cost skyrocket->retouch to nature to find a better way to get thermal conmfort
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Buildings historically cultivate connections to the world by (2)
Definition
rustication - connection to ground
silhouette - connection to sky
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buildings cultivate connections to the world by (examples)
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Jasserie - operational cycles that allow no waste (cow shit)

Johnson Project by loftin- recognizing the natural and cultural history of the place (gun and river)
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Dwelling as defined by Heidegger means to be at peace in a place. It means to live with awareness of the "fourfold".. list them
Definition
The Earth
The Sky
The Mortals
The Gods
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Archie-tecture:
arch-techne ?
Arch-tikto ?

An architect does?
Definition
Master builder

Master of "letting appear"

an architect is a master of letting appear
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gathering/sparing?
Definition
gathering - focuses the landscape

sparing - broadens our awareness of the landscape
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Wines argues that every civilization has risen and fallen based upon a particular balance? what is that?
Definition
A balance with natural environment
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Dodge argues that Bioregional practice can be understood as existing in two broad categories. What are these categories and what are their characteristics?
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1) Importance of Natural Systems
-source of nutrition
- spiritual sustenance

2) Anarchy
- self independent regions (resource/consequence)
- self reliance people + communities
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Where does "Classical" come from
Definition
the latin word classici - highest level of roman society
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What were the Roman Thermae? who instituted them?
Definition
The roman baths*. Emperor Agrippae
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What was the meaning of the "Caryatid Porch"?
Definition
The women walk under the weight of their shame.
"to remember"
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Early greek temples were ________?
Definition
alters
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A _________ was a burial urn>
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