history of the designed environment final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 melon dome | dome made of segmented pieces pushed in and out. resembles a melon. |
| Churrigueresque | Spanish baroque named after the family that started the style |
| chateau | an impressive country house (or castle) in France |
| mansard roof | M, a roof that has two slopes on all sides, with the lower slope being steep and the upper slope almost flat. (created by Francois Mansart) |
| forcer la nature | french term for reshaping nature showing the dominance of man |
| topiary | term for making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees |
| parterre | term for an ornamental flower garden / low to the ground |
| King Louis XIV | absolute monarchy, believed god chose him to rule and only god could punish him, (divine rights), people couldn't be trusted to govern themselves |
| tri-vium | latin for "three ways" |
| allee | term for a carved corridor through trees/ walkway through trees or shrubs |
| in situ | term meaning - in the original or natural place or site (Arch: Inigo Jones studied architecture on site) |
| popery | an offensive term for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church |
| industrial revolution | the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850. |
| didactic architecture | architecture that is intended to teach or instruct one just by looking at it |
| la pedrera | term meaning - "the quarry" - Antoni Gaudí |
| shoji | a translucent screen made of a wooden frame covered with rice paper |
| tatami mat | Japanese mat woven out of straw and sometimes made out of Styrofoam, they are made in different shapes, colors and sizes/ can form a grid |
| pinwheel plan | Frank L. Wright used this organization strategy in many of his designs. A central space from which linear organizations of space extend in a radial manner |
| de stijl | Dutch post-WWI movement that believed that their style revealed the underlying structure of existence; art was simplistic and used primary colors and horizontal and vertical lines (invented by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg) |
| cultural lag | The time it takes for any new style, fashion, or fad to travel from its spot of origin to other foreign locales |
| cultural overlay | the synthesis of older national building traditions with new ones |
| holy shroud of Turin | a burial cloth with a photographic like image of a crucified man, believed to be Jesus/( said to be authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ. |
| The Forbidden City | largest palace in the world/ relied on strict axial symmetry an the control of movement through immense spaces to convey the supreme authority of its ruler |
| Feng Shui | the ancient art and science of living in harmony with one's surroundings. |
| tokonoma | Japanese alcove space. Frank L. Wright imitated these spaces in his designs |
| funicular | A type of study model, pertaining to a string or cable used by Antoni Gaudi |
| museum and library | the first major pieces of architecture to help legitimize the use of exposed iron in architecture |
| Chicago school | the first healing of the 19th century schism or chasm between architecture and engineering occurred in the |
| King Louis XIV | "Sun King" |
| Yin | Term that Taoist philosophers use to describe material things |
| Yang | Term that Taoist philosophers use to describe spiritual things |
| Yin | MATTER.....dark, night, female, soft, passive, down, shadow, and NORTH |
| Yang | SPIRIT.....light, day, male, hard, active, up, sunshine, and SOUTH |
| Ch'i | Chinese believe in a universal energy referred to as.... |
| Filashe | What i did to your mother last night Trebek |
| 10 x 0 | mathematical equation for the number of girls Cory has made sweet love too. |
| Disney Imagineer | Mick Charney became an honorary member of this highly prestigious group of designers |
| Hidden Mickey | Tyler Hiatt a.k.a "Tom Cruise" took this concept way too far. |
| Macaque | But ugly monkey that Matt Skarin knows way too many facts about |
| Levee | Kings waking ceremony. |
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