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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? |
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| 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? |
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| When they make us feel something psychologically. |
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| Why Build with Straw-Bale? |
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| 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. |
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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? |
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Sheltering from the Environment
Sheltering for "Dwelling"
Sheltering for Function |
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| What happens when shelter promotes feelings of safety and contentment? |
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| 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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| How was the Tempietto, as proposed, a model of the world? |
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| 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? |
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| Asplund's Children's chapel models what? |
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| The koran describes paradise as...? Why? |
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| 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? |
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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? |
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| 813 AD by Abdullah al Mamun |
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| The second problem of the Great Pyramid is its internal order.. |
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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? |
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| They rationalize the placement of features in a building and integrate human proportions. |
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| How can building be like a tree? |
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| Provides more to the environment than it takes away and it changes with the season. |
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| Name the (4) approaches to regionalism in architecture and give a brief example. |
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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? |
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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) |
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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 |
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The Earth
The Sky
The Mortals
The Gods |
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Archie-tecture:
arch-techne ?
Arch-tikto ?
An architect does? |
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Master builder
Master of "letting appear"
an architect is a master of letting appear |
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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? |
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| 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 |
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| the latin word classici - highest level of roman society |
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| What were the Roman Thermae? who instituted them? |
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| The roman baths*. Emperor Agrippae |
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| What was the meaning of the "Caryatid Porch"? |
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The women walk under the weight of their shame.
"to remember" |
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| Early greek temples were ________? |
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| A _________ was a burial urn> |
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