Jumat, 20 Juni 2008

Terminology List


Main list: List of basic architecture topics
Acoustics
Air rights
Ancient lights
Architect
Architectural engineering
Architecture for Humanity
Architectural design values
Architectural history
Architectural lighting
Architectural journalism
Architectural photography
Architectural style
Architectural theory
Architecture timeline
Arcology
Building
Building biology
Building code
Building engineering
Building Envelope
Building materials
Civil Engineering
Computer-aided architectural design
Construction
Copyright in architecture
Energy-plus-house
Environmental design
Green building
Habitat for Humanity International
History of Architecture
Interior Design
Invention, e.g., scroll for Invention in Visual Art
Landscape Architecture
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
List of architecture magazines
List of buildings and structures
List of notable architects
Lighting
Mathematics and architecture
Low-energy house
Passive house
Passive solar
Passive solar building design
Passive cooling
Real Estate (Property) Development
Religious architecture
Sick building syndrome
Structural Engineering
Surveying
Sustainable design
Urban Planning
Urban design
Vernacular architecture

Architecture

Architecture is the activity of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures, primarily done to provide socially purposeful shelter. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment, from the macro level of how a building integrates with its surrounding man made landscape (see town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture) to the micro level of architectural or construction details and, sometimes, furniture. The term "architecture" is also used for the profession of providing architectural services.
Architects have as their primary object providing for the spatial and shelter needs of people in groups of some kind (families, schools, churches, businesses, etc.) by the creative organisation of materials and components in a land- or city-scape, dealing with mass, space, form, volume, texture, structure, light, shadow, materials, program, and pragmatic elements such as cost, construction limitations and technology, to achieve an end which is functional, economical, practical and often with artistic and aesthetic aspects. This distinguishes architecture from engineering design, which has as its primary object the creative manipulation of materials and forms using mathematical and scientific principles

Architecture

Separate from the design process, architecture is also experienced [1] through the senses, which therefore gives rise to aural [2] , visual, olfactory [3], and tactile [4] architecture. As people move through a space, architecture is experienced as a time sequence. [5] Even though our culture considers architecture to be a visual experience, the other senses play a role in how we experience both natural and built environments. Attitudes towards the senses depend on culture [6]. The design process and the sensory experience of a space are distinctly separate views, each with its own language and assumptions.
Architectural works are perceived as cultural and political symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations are often known primarily through their architectural achievements. Such buildings as the pyramids of Egypt and the Roman Colosseum are cultural symbols, and are an important link in public consciousness, even when scholars have discovered much about a past civilization through other means. Cities, regions and cultures continue to identify themselves with (and are known by) their architectural monuments
Separate from the design process, architecture is also experienced [1] through the senses, which therefore gives rise to aural [2] , visual, olfactory [3], and tactile [4] architecture. As people move through a space, architecture is experienced as a time sequence. [5] Even though our culture considers architecture to be a visual experience, the other senses play a role in how we experience both natural and built environments. Attitudes towards the senses depend on culture [6]. The design process and the sensory experience of a space are distinctly separate views, each with its own language and assumptions.
Architectural works are perceived as cultural and political symbols and works of art. Historical civilizations are often known primarily through their architectural achievements. Such buildings as the pyramids of Egypt and the Roman Colosseum are cultural symbols, and are an important link in public consciousness, even when scholars have discovered much about a past civilization through other means. Cities, regions and cultures continue to identify themselves with (and are known by) their architectural monuments

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