Architecture vocabulary

• Chroma refers to the degree a color differs from gray, considering lightness and brightness.
• Site is a delimited ground area where a building or project is located or proposed.
• Shade is darkening a hue by adding black, thus lowering the color's value.
• Mass relates to the size or physical bulk of a building, in actual or relative context.
• The Centre Pompidou, designed by Renzo Piano and Richards Rogers, is a 20th-century architectural marvel, known for exterior escalators and colored tubing.
• A square is a symmetrical figure with two equal, perpendicular axes.
• Yellow is associated with cheerfulness in the color spectrum.
• Primary colors cannot be created by mixing other colors.
• White is the purest color, offering mood, quietness and mental organization.
• Luis Barragán was the first Mexican architect to win an award for contributions to Latin American Modernism.
• Louis Ma. Araneta designed the Times Theatre in Quezon Boulevard, Quiapo, in the Art Deco style, constructed in 1939.

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• The Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia is known for its façade, gable with oversized chimney and mismatched windows, designed by Robert Venturi.

• Pritzker Family established the Nobel Prize for architecture to encourage public awareness and inspire greater creativity.

• Santiago Calatrava is a Spanish architect known for bridges supported by single leaning pylons, stations and museums resembling living organisms.

• Antonio Toledo's Legislative Building in the Philippines is an example of Neo-Classical architecture.

• Personal character in architecture results from the building's purpose or reason for construction.

• Contrast uses differences between elements to draw attention and guide the viewer's eye.

• Balance refers to the distribution and visual weight of elements in a composition, creating equilibrium.

• Centralized arrangements radiate from a center, like spokes in a wheel.

• Scale provides a feeling of grandeur, dignity, and monumentality.

• Rhythm in design is achieved through repeated lines, planes, and surface treatments.

• Regular sequence refers to elements of art repeated in a regular way to produce the look and feel of movement.

• Associated character is a character that came from impressions related to growing out of past experience, influenced by ideas.

• Proportion is evident by comparing the size, shape, and tone of different objects or parts of a composition.

• Anthropomorphic proportion systems are based on the dimensions and proportions of the human body.

• Visual scale is how the size and proportion of an element are related to other elements of known or assumed size.

• Color psychology studies how hues affect human behavior and perception.

• Hue is the basic and pure color, discernible by its unique attribute.

• The desire for self-expression urges individuals to assert themselves and do their own thing.

• Craftsmanship Period: An age of competition and mass production that lead to better working conditions and well-planned factories.

• Orientation refers to a position relative to the ground plane.

• Color and illumination are important visual elements in institutional buildings.

• Orange is a stimulating color that should be used relatively sparingly.

• Bright colors stimulate imagination and senses, producing joy and pleasure.

• Modulor is a system of measurement that governs length, surfaces, volumes, and maintains human scale, derived from human stature and Mathematics.

• Tropical climates require small windows to minimize the amount of light and glare.

• Santiago Calatrava's Oculus building symbolizes light continuing after tragedy, with an opening as a memorial.

• The Great Pyramid of Giza uses materials like blocks, limestones, granites and mortar made of mud and haystacks.

• Taj Mahal has a symmetrical plan, built by Shah Jahan for his wife.

• Antoni Gaudí Cornet designed La Sagrada Familia, with three iconic facades.

• Catalan Modernism and highly individualized sui generis style are attributed to Antoni Gaudí Cornet.

• The Guggenheim Museum is a monument to modernism, with unique architecture and spiral ramp.

• Stimuli-action are the forces in which it is the desires or impulses that need to be satisfied.

• Strength, beauty, and function are the three principles of architecture given by Vitruvius.

• Victorian houses have complicated and disorganized plans.

• Gothic churches were both places of worship and centers of education for those who couldn't read or write.

• Francisco Mañosa is associated with the saying "Everything started with the Nipa Hut".

• Contrast shows differences and is the opposite of similarity.

• Axis lines are established by two points in space, arranged regularly or irregularly.

• The simplest balance is symmetrical, with elements identically arranged on either side.

• Rhythm of opposition creates visual change through direct placement of opposing lines, shapes, or colors.

• Emphasis creates a focal point in design composition.

• Formal balance approaches absolute symmetry but lacks some of its essentials.

• Accented rhythm arranges openings or details such that some are more important, drawing the eye.

• Unity the culmination of all the previously mentioned elements of design.

• Movement is the visual flow through a composition.

• Ken is the modular grid of Japanese that is use as a way of their own proportioning.

• Furnicube based form Le Corbusier's Modulor, was a formula discovered by Salvan.

• Human scale relates building elements to the dimensions and proportions of the human body.

• 1/7th dia is the base proportion of Tuscan Column.

• 1/8th dia is the base proportion of Doric Column.

• 1/9th dia is the base proportion of Ionic Column.

• 1/10th dia is the base proportion of Corinthian Column.

• 1/10th dia is the base proportion of Composite Column.

• Point marks a position in space, static, centralized, and directionless.

• Linear members articulate surface planes and perform structural functions.

• Colonnade is a row of columns supporting an entablature, often defining the public face of a building.

• Andrea Palladio designed the Basilica Palladain, a two-story loggia designed in 1545.

• Shape refers to the characteristics outline of a plane figure or the surface configuration.

• The Robbie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, exhibits low-sloping roof planes and broad overhangs.

• Dolmen are prehistoric monuments of two or more upright stones supporting a horizontal stone slab.

• Gestalt psychology suggests the mind simplifies visual environments to understand them.

• Triangles signify stability when one of its sides is resting.

• A cube bounded by six square sides with all right angles.

• The Gwathmey House is an example of subtractive transformation.

• Dimensional transformation alters a form by changing its dimensions while retaining its identity.

• Cumulative compositions, according to Le Corbusier are additive, picturesque, and full of movement and/or completely disciplined by classification and hierarchy.

• Face to face contact requires two forms to have corresponding parallel planar surfaces.

• Articulation refers to how surfaces come together to define a form's shape and volume.

• Clustered forms relate spaces physically, consisting of repetitive cellular spaces.

• Cones are generated by revolving right triangles about one of their sides.

• Form denotes the structure of a work, and how elements are arranged.

• Texture determines the degree to which a surface reflects or absorbs incident light.

• Pyramid is a polyhedron with a polygonal base and triangular faces at a common vertex.

• Movement is visual flow which intends the viewer's eye to follow.

• Scale refers to the size of an object in relation to another.

• Frank Gehry designed the Disney Concert Hall at Los Angeles?

• The Swiss Architect of the Chapel Notre Dame du Haut created a place of silence.

• The national artist created St. Andrew the Apostle Parish 1968 , a butterfly shaped floor plan from cruciform.

• .Locsin designed and build the The Holy Sacrifice also known The “Flying Saucer”.

• Pritzker- Prize winning American-Chinese Architect of the Bank of China has a 315 meters high is located in near Central Meter Station

• Leoh Ming Pei 1968 built The John Hancock Tower a trapezoid and noted for his designed forms is based upon arrangements of simple

• Norman Robert Foster is a British Architect rebuild Reichstag in Berlin and also designed the 30 St. Mary Axe known as the "The Gherkin tower

• London City Hall was designed by the Architect in No. with a with the government of London. The building is unusual bulbous .shape, purposely intended to reduce energy on it's surface area.

• This L'Hemisferic building was created to represent the "All-Seeing" for the humans eye & the wisdom.

• The Bahai Lotus Temple-house in part of Worship dedicated in December 1986.

• Fariborz Shahba is in Architect who designed the building is the one in the works

• Mental Ideation the mental process helps the thinking in the design

• worst possible idea design. It is Design Thinking.

• Implementation of creative ideas is in practice is Imagineering in a Engineering

• The process is where several people gather to discuses is the Brain storming

• The most lifetime achievement is the Architecture award from received Frank Gehry and the Pritzker

• Always helping for mankind lead Buckminster Fuller to aim address for the disease and global thinkers

• Correcting Architecture values Aato to humanize by machine

• Beherens called the Master where is architect is the student for Goupis, Brewer and Van de Pohe

• The Architect Burnham to relocate the building in reliance

• The dictum is the religious not religion and social for Lucio Costa

• Le Corbusier -A house is a machine is to live and a Magnificent display of volume

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