Architecture and Environmental Design

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Chapter Fourteen: Architecture and Environmental Design CHAPTER OVERVIEW This Chapter Will: ▪ discuss the functional and aesthetic nature of architecture and environmental design ▪ describe basic structural systems of architecture ▪ survey architectural achievements in history ▪ describe the symbolic features of architecture and the aims of the architects who created them CHAPTER OBJECTIVES The Student Will: ▪ identify the functional and aesthetic nature of architecture and environmental design ▪ gain an understanding of the basic structural systems of architecture ▪ survey architectural achievements in history and relate them to their derivative cultures ▪ gain an understanding of symbolic features in architecture and the aesthetic concerns of well-known architects CHAPTER OUTLINE ▪ Architecture An Art and a Science ▪ Style, Materials, and Methods Wood, Stone, and Brick Post and Beam Round Arch, Vault, and Dome Pointed Arch and Vault ▪ New Materials, New Techniques Truss and Balloon Frame Construction Cast Iron Steel and Reinforced Concrete ▪ Other Innovations Designing with Nature Environmental Design Focus Biography: A Sensitive Modernist: Tadao Ando (architect) Biography: Radical Innovator: Frank Lloyd Wright Essay: Where We Live VOCABULARY architecture post and beam post and lintel colonnade arch vault dome keystone minaret pendentives gothic arch buttress flying buttress balloon frame construction

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