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Stuff to memorize (not everything!!)
Flashcards do conjunto (46)
- 1What type of surface does the brise soleil on the Santiago Calatrava designed Milwaukee Art Museum produce?Ruled Surface
- 2Name the 5 levels of mediation of an idea into a representation•Hand Drawing
•Cad Drafting
•3D and Nurbs Modeling
•Rendering/Virtual Environments
•Parametricism/BIM - 3Which author wrote about the fact that architects rarely work directly with the object of their invention and instead must translate their ideas into built form through drawing?Robin Evans
- 4What is the defining characteristic of Karl F Schinkel’s painting "The Origin of Painting" as compared to David Allan’s "The Origin of Painting"? (Those no life naked people that draw shadows)The drawing exists before architecture
- 5What are the 3 types of projection?•Perspective
•Oblique
•Orthographic - 6Which architect uses axonometric drawings to show the transformations on a cube in his House series?Peter Eisenman
- 7What method of creating complex forms does J. Mayer H’s "Metropol Parasol" project in Seville, Spain use? (similar to the Doubly Curved model we created)Contouring
- 8Egyptian "Hypostyle Halls" are defined by what?Cutting space out of a solid mass
- 9What is stereotomy? (Remember that assignment?)The art or technique of cutting solids
- 10Where might you find stereotomy used on a gothic cathedral like Notre Dame de Paris? (This one is hard like a brick smh)The Flying Bukresses
- 11What does the Nolli Map represent?Public space in Rome, Italy
- 12Which famous church by Tadao Ando uses a cut/subtraction in the concrete walls to create a religious symbol? (This one is EZ) "Z" as in american English pronunciation not British just saiyanChurch of the Light
- 13What project by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) inverts the typical process of architectural production by subtracting public spaces out of a tower of books?Tres Grande Bibliotheque
- 14What is topology? (That assignment we did man, do you remember? Donut to Coffee mug)The study of properties of space that are preserved under continuous deformations including stretching and bending, but
not tearing or gluing. - 15What mathematical problem is credited with the origination of the study of topology?The seven bridges of Konigsberg
- 16What architecture firm uses the topological form of a trefoil knot in their Mercedes-Benz Museum project?UN Studio
- 17Which project by Foreign Office Architects (FOA) uses a topologically defined landscape?Yokohama International Port Terminal
- 18Which artist/designer uses unitized cast concrete blocks to create topologically complex patterns, screens, and walls? (Ohh that assignment)Erwin Hauer
- 19What is the primary defining characteristic of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s (OMA) Parc de la Vilette proposal?Program is organized into linear bands
- 20Neutelings Riedijk Architects uses a skin pattern that resembles shipping containers to do what for their Shipping and Transport College project in Rokerdam, Netherlands? (Nikki should know this well i think)Unify disparate forms and shapes into a singular composition
- 21Buckminster Fuller developed and named what kind of dome structure?Geodesic Dome
- 22Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto of RUR Architecture are interested in what, as it relates to pattern in their architecture?A combination of structure and ornament
- 23Herzog and De Meuron attempt to do what to materials and patterns in much of their architecture?Make it appear opposite to its inherent nature
(For ex. that building that looking hella heavy but actually aint) - 24Name Charles Sanders Pierce’s 3 types of signs•Icon (Looks like its object)
•Symbol (Represents an agreed upon construct)
•Index (References something else) - 25What type of sign is a diagram, according to Charles Sanders Pierce?Icon
- 26Which architects invented the terms Duck and Decorated Shed?Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
- 27According to Stan Allen, the diagram’s primary utility is as an abstract means of what?Producing new models of organization
- 28SANAA’s Toledo Glass Museum is an example of what type of diagram in plan?Bubble Diagram
- 29How do you create tertiary colors?By mixing one primary and one secondary color; or two secondary colors
- 30How do you create a Tint?By adding WHITE to a pure hue
- 31How do you create a Shade?By adding BLACK to a pure hue
- 32How do you create a Tone?By adding GREY to a pure hue
- 33Where are complimentary colors on a color wheel?Opposite one another
- 34Where are analogous colors on a color wheel?Next to one another
- 35What shape does a tetradic color scheme create if drawn on a color wheel?Rectangle
- 36What is the difference between typical colors of ink and colors of light?Ink = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black (CMYK)
Light = Red, Green, & Blue (RGB) - 37According to Alfred Korzybski, a map may have a structure similar or dissimilar to the territory but....A map is not the territory
- 38Buckminster Fuller created a map of the world that could be unrolled in many different ways and differed from the typical Mercator Map that we are used to. What was his map called?Dymaxion Projection
(That weird map bruh) - 39What characteristic defined Joaquin Torres Garcia’s map of South America that was different than what we are used to?He inverted the map and placed the Southern tip of the continent where we typically draw North
(Such a weirdo he is) - 40What are James Corner’s 4 themes of mapping?Drift, Layering, Game Board, Rhizome
- 41According to the art historian Clement Greenberg, each art form tends to mimic what?The dominant art form of its age
(Realism vs abstract paintings) - 42In Marshal McLuhan’s Understanding Media he lays out 2 types of media: Hot and Cold, what are they?•Hot media requires no participation from the observer (TVs)
•Cool media requires participation and that the observer fill in the gaps (Radios) - 43What is a composite drawing?A drawing that combines 2 or more drawing types with 2 or more drawing techniques
- 44Which house by the architects Diller & Scofidio is characterized by a series of continuous sections that align with a lever that rotates around a fixed point defining the section cut as it relates to the plan of the house?Slow House
(Dat one drawing that looks like a paper fan lmao) - 45Which Japanese architecture firm uses composite drawing techniques that combine orthographic and perspective drawing types with technical/construction information and aesthetic/experiential information?Atelier Bow Wow
- 46Which architect is known for his immaculately hand drawn section perspectives?Paul Rudolph
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