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Flashcards by Thavixay Senthavy, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Thavixay Senthavy
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| Question | Answer |
| What type of surface does the brise soleil on the Santiago Calatrava designed Milwaukee Art Museum produce? | Ruled Surface |
| Name the 5 levels of mediation of an idea into a representation | •Hand Drawing •Cad Drafting •3D and Nurbs Modeling •Rendering/Virtual Environments •Parametricism/BIM |
| Which 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 |
| What 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 |
| What are the 3 types of projection? | •Perspective •Oblique •Orthographic |
| Which architect uses axonometric drawings to show the transformations on a cube in his House series? | Peter Eisenman |
| What 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 |
| Egyptian "Hypostyle Halls" are defined by what? | Cutting space out of a solid mass |
| What is stereotomy? (Remember that assignment?) | The art or technique of cutting solids |
| Where 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 |
| What does the Nolli Map represent? | Public space in Rome, Italy |
| Which 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 saiyan | Church of the Light |
| What 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 |
| What 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. |
| What mathematical problem is credited with the origination of the study of topology? | The seven bridges of Konigsberg |
| What architecture firm uses the topological form of a trefoil knot in their Mercedes-Benz Museum project? | UN Studio |
| Which project by Foreign Office Architects (FOA) uses a topologically defined landscape? | Yokohama International Port Terminal |
| Which artist/designer uses unitized cast concrete blocks to create topologically complex patterns, screens, and walls? (Ohh that assignment) | Erwin Hauer |
| What is the primary defining characteristic of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s (OMA) Parc de la Vilette proposal? | Program is organized into linear bands |
| Neutelings 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 |
| Buckminster Fuller developed and named what kind of dome structure? | Geodesic Dome |
| Jesse 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 |
| Herzog 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) |
| Name Charles Sanders Pierce’s 3 types of signs | •Icon (Looks like its object) •Symbol (Represents an agreed upon construct) •Index (References something else) |
| What type of sign is a diagram, according to Charles Sanders Pierce? | Icon |
| Which architects invented the terms Duck and Decorated Shed? | Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown |
| According to Stan Allen, the diagram’s primary utility is as an abstract means of what? | Producing new models of organization |
| SANAA’s Toledo Glass Museum is an example of what type of diagram in plan? | Bubble Diagram |
| How do you create tertiary colors? | By mixing one primary and one secondary color; or two secondary colors |
| How do you create a Tint? | By adding WHITE to a pure hue |
| How do you create a Shade? | By adding BLACK to a pure hue |
| How do you create a Tone? | By adding GREY to a pure hue |
| Where are complimentary colors on a color wheel? | Opposite one another |
| Where are analogous colors on a color wheel? | Next to one another |
| What shape does a tetradic color scheme create if drawn on a color wheel? | Rectangle |
| What is the difference between typical colors of ink and colors of light? | Ink = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black (CMYK) Light = Red, Green, & Blue (RGB) |
| According to Alfred Korzybski, a map may have a structure similar or dissimilar to the territory but.... | A map is not the territory |
| Buckminster 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) |
| What 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) |
| What are James Corner’s 4 themes of mapping? | Drift, Layering, Game Board, Rhizome |
| According to the art historian Clement Greenberg, each art form tends to mimic what? | The dominant art form of its age (Realism vs abstract paintings) |
| In 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) |
| What is a composite drawing? | A drawing that combines 2 or more drawing types with 2 or more drawing techniques |
| Which 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) |
| Which 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 |
| Which architect is known for his immaculately hand drawn section perspectives? | Paul Rudolph |
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