ARCH 151 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Dome, Renaissance Architecture, Perspective (Graphical)

• School: UW
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARCH 151
• Professor: Kathryn Rogers Merlino

Document Summary

Intro to intro to the appreciation of architecture. All pictures taken from "1_introduction+to+architecture_wi19. pdf" on the course canvas website. What is architecture, and why should we care about it: not just isolated buildings, human settlement- physical settings for traditions, rituals, working, living, forming a community, relationship of humans to the natural world, architecture affects everyone. Uw architecture: kane hall is a brutalism version of suzzalo. Things to pay attention to while studying architecture: form and geometry, materials and texture, pattern and rhythm, scale and proportion, color and light, structure and function, space and place. All diagrams taken from "terms&structure_slides. pdf" on the course canvas website. Firmness, commodity, & delight: firmness: must be strong and stand up, commodity: must have a use, delight: must be aesthetically pleasing. Corbelled structures: limited by the materials, has less structural integrity, series of stones that slowly cantilever to make an arch, can make a dome with the same technique (eg. beehive tomb)