Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Preservation/Post-modern
Preservation/Post-modern
18
Architecture
Undergraduate 1
12/17/2011

Additional Architecture Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Preservation
Definition
Keeping a building maintained in is original state.
Term
Restoration
Definition
Putting a building back to the state it was at at a particular time.
Term
Rehabilitation
Definition
The process of adding and/or altering an older building that focuses on changing needs.
Term
Relocation
Definition
Moving a building to a place where it better serves its function, avoiding its removal.
Term
Reconstruction
Definition
Re-creating a built form that has not survived with time.
Term
Gentrification
Definition
Rehabilitation of architecture that changes the local economy, therefore changing the social demographic.
Term
Campus
Definition

Latin for the word field.

Where buildings for a college or university are situated.

Term
quadrangle (quad)
Definition
Populated cluster of buildings on a college campus.
Term
fast track
Definition
Design process where documents were delivered in distinct packages to provide an early construction start.
Term

Change order

Definition
Work that is added to or deleted from the original scope of work of a contract, which alters the original contract amount or completion date
Term
Zoning
Definition
Device of land use planning used by local governments in most developed countries.
Term
International style
Definition

Architectural style that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, the formative decades of modern architecture.

The expression of volume rather than mass, the emphasis on balance rather than preconceived symmetry, and the expulsion of applied ornament

Term
Curtain Wall
Definition
An outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep out the weather.
Term
Open Plan
Definition
makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of small, enclosed rooms such as private offices.
Term
Duck
Definition
A sculpture like building
Term
Decorated shed
Definition
Ornamental decoration on the walls of a building.
Term
Post modern
Definition

Next biggest style after post modernism.

Multiplicity and desire to communicate.

Term
Architectural competition
Definition
When a bunch of architectural designs are looked at for one building.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!