ARC 308 COMMONLY ASKED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
(RATED A+ ).
Reasons to learn architecture
Familiarize
Increase Awareness
Become advocate
Effects in Architectural Value
Personality
Experiences
Time Period
Judgement/Intention
Things Architecture Provide
Shelter
Climate control
Usefulness
Beauty
Meaning
Hugo Haering's Global Values
1. Maximize value of each individual
2. Nature is man's great teacher
Hugo Haering's Architectural Values
1. Design is intuitive, inspired by nature and music
2. Beauty is relative
3. Every building is unique
4. Function is primary determinant of architecture
5. Expression related to function
6. Believed buildings should fit like second skin
7. Function first, then form will follow
Mies Van Der Rohe's global values
1. society depends on institutions, business is very important
2. Collective thought and past knowledge of mankind is our teacher
Mies Van Der Rohe's Architectural Values
, 1. Design is a rational process; order, specific
2. Beauty is universal (standard)
3. Architecture should be an expression of its time
4. Construction and materials are primary; structure is a determinant
5. Buildings aren't unique to one another, all based of one another
6. Less is more
Albert Speer's Global Values
1. Society depends on its charismatic, visionary leaders
2. Fate is a determinant
Albert Speer's Architectural Values
1. Design is a tool for communicating ideas
2. Each building type has its own rules and criteria
3. Richness, wonder and drama = good architecture
4. Immortal
5. Classical times are teachers
Vitruvian Triad
Delight (form)
Firmness (physical considerations)
Commodity (human factors)
you get delight from firmness and make it a commodity
Elements of Form
Balance
Proportion
Symmetry
Scale
Shape
Space
Texture
Light
Color
Rhythm
Line
Material
BP, SSSS, TLC, RLM
Reasons for using geometry/numbers
mysticism
prestige
structural sense
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
(RATED A+ ).
Reasons to learn architecture
Familiarize
Increase Awareness
Become advocate
Effects in Architectural Value
Personality
Experiences
Time Period
Judgement/Intention
Things Architecture Provide
Shelter
Climate control
Usefulness
Beauty
Meaning
Hugo Haering's Global Values
1. Maximize value of each individual
2. Nature is man's great teacher
Hugo Haering's Architectural Values
1. Design is intuitive, inspired by nature and music
2. Beauty is relative
3. Every building is unique
4. Function is primary determinant of architecture
5. Expression related to function
6. Believed buildings should fit like second skin
7. Function first, then form will follow
Mies Van Der Rohe's global values
1. society depends on institutions, business is very important
2. Collective thought and past knowledge of mankind is our teacher
Mies Van Der Rohe's Architectural Values
, 1. Design is a rational process; order, specific
2. Beauty is universal (standard)
3. Architecture should be an expression of its time
4. Construction and materials are primary; structure is a determinant
5. Buildings aren't unique to one another, all based of one another
6. Less is more
Albert Speer's Global Values
1. Society depends on its charismatic, visionary leaders
2. Fate is a determinant
Albert Speer's Architectural Values
1. Design is a tool for communicating ideas
2. Each building type has its own rules and criteria
3. Richness, wonder and drama = good architecture
4. Immortal
5. Classical times are teachers
Vitruvian Triad
Delight (form)
Firmness (physical considerations)
Commodity (human factors)
you get delight from firmness and make it a commodity
Elements of Form
Balance
Proportion
Symmetry
Scale
Shape
Space
Texture
Light
Color
Rhythm
Line
Material
BP, SSSS, TLC, RLM
Reasons for using geometry/numbers
mysticism
prestige
structural sense
