Theory of Architecture and Principles of Planning (TAPP) Pre-Board Exam

Flashcards on key vocabulary terms from the lecture notes.

Architecture

The Art and Science of Designing and Constructing a building

Point

A center of a field.

East and West

In tropical climates, regarded as the 'hot sides'

Art Nouveau

A movement of being independent to the tradition of antiquity after the Gothic style

Juan Arellano

Architectural territory of Escolta

Modulor

An anthropometric scale of proportions devised by Le Corbusier and based on the height of an English man with his arm raised.

Renaissance Architects

Architects who believe that their buildings had to belong to a higher order, returned to the Greek mathematical system of proportions.

Kevin Lynch

An early proponent of mental mapping and notable with his book, 'The Image of the City'.

Entasis

A slight convexity given to a column or tower, as to correct an optical illusion.

Regular size of a twin size mattress

38” x 75”

Red, Red-orange and yellow

Hues in harmony with each other

Menhir

A representation of two point

Renzo Piano

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Architectural Form

The point of contact between mass and space

Baroque

Architectural style of Manila Cathedral in Intramuros

Brutalism

Most of Leandro Locsin’s Architectural styles

Edge

Element of a city that a river represents

Greenbelt

A wide area of parks of undeveloped land surrounding a community

0.85m

Comfortable height of a kitchen counter for Filipinos

Neoclassicism

Style that mostly influences Philippine government structures

Baroque

Style that mostly influences Philippine churches

Luis Sulllivan

The principle of Functionalism is based on this Architect’s dictum

Increase of informal settlers

Effect of rapid increase of population in an urban area

Tall trees

Best way to lessen noise cause by traffic

Transportation

Also called the blood stream of a city

Freeway

An efficient & rapid transport system for automobiles to circulate across urban to urban areas

before the openings

Location of tree foliage in order to promote air motion into openings

Air enters through openings located in the positive pressure zone.

Air enters through openings located in the windward side means

Ventanillas

A small window located right under the barandilla. That allows air to come into the house through elaborate grillwork or wooded balustrades

not more than 5 meters

Maximum distance of hedges and shrubs away from a building to still be effective

Robert Venturi

The Architect-author of the much- acclaimed book, “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.”

Seoul

Megacity with the most efficient public transportation, which accounts for almost 80% of all journey

Ambassador Hotel

The First Skyscraper in the Philippines which is only 4 storey high.

Fernando Ocampo

Architect of the First Skyscraper in the Philippines which is only 4 storey high.

Hotel de Oriente

First Hotel in Asia and First to use elevator

William Parsons

Architect of the renovation of the First Hotel in Asia and First to use elevator

Juan Manosa

Recipient of National Artist award in Architecture for his belief that there is such a thing as Philippine Architecture, adopting architecture relative of Philippine tradition and culture.

Walter Gropius

A School of design established in Germany called 'Bauhaus' was founded by?

Dimensional transformation

St. Pierre Church, Firminy was designed by Le Corbusier is an example of this type of transformation

Cluster Form

Type of additive transformation occurred in Habbitat 67, Montereal

Subtractive transformation

Form transformation in the figure shown above?

Nakagin tower

The building in the illustration of form transformation

Ideal Theater by Pablo Antonio

Example of Art deco

A

Defines 'space within a space'

B

Defines 'space linked by a common space'

Repetition

Space organization or articulation emphasized by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela in the City of Arts and Sciences

Symmetry

The balanced distribution and arrangement of equivalent forms and spaces on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane or about a center axis?

Urban sprawl

A 20th century problem emanating from rapid urbanization of areas surrounding a city

Egyptian Civilization

Civilization with no need for defensive walls, no zoning, dependence on Nile river, and fascination with after life.

Neighborhood

A geographic area which residents conveniently share the common services and facilities needed in the vicinity of their dwellings

Master Plan

Primary development of any community

Poblacion

“Laws of the indies” town is also known in Spanish as?

Unity

A variable of urban decoration where the environment is to have an understandable simple pattern of signs and clues.

4 books of Architecture

Influential book in architecture history that contains the author’s design celebrating the purity and simplicity of classical architecture

The living platform is elevated on stilts

A bahay kubo adaptation of passive cooling

Juxtaposition

The state or position of being placed close together or side by side to permit comparison or contrast

Color

A phenomenon of light and visual perception that may be described in terms of an individual’s perception of hue, saturation and tonal value

Scale

The size or proportion of a building or space, or an article of furniture, relative to the structural or functional dimensions of the human body

De Architectura

Written by the Roman architect and dedicated to his patron, the Emperor Ceasar Augustus as a guide for building projects.

Joseph Stirling

Not a Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Hierarchy

The Articulation of the importance or significance of a form or space by its size, or placement relative to the other forms and spaces of the organization

Organic Architecture

A philosophy of architecture that emerge in early 20th century, asserting that a building should have a structure and plan that fulfills its functional requirements, harmonize with its natural environmental, and form an intellectually lucid, integrated whole.

Luis Barragan

A Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

Mile high tower

Mies van der Rohe first envisioned the all-glass skyscraper in 1920. A 38 storey of black steel and glass. A structure that could not be built that time.

Philip Johnson

Architect who designed the interior of The Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants.

Clustered

A Collection of forms grouped together by proximity or the sharing of a common visual trait.

Radial

Spatial organization that has a central space from which linear organizations of space extend in a radial manner.

Idelfonso P. Santos

Pioneered the profession landscape architecture in the Philippines that’s why he was known for being the Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture.

Bliss

A 40 hectare land housing program by the government with the objective of diverting part of Manila’s population to new satellite communities.

Hot air or gas tends to rise

Stack effect or Chimney effect

The Laws of the Indies

Pronounced by King Philip which Influenced the Spanish Town Planning

Human Development

Not a factor that influence a settlement pattern

Territory

A delimited space that a person or a group of persons uses and defends as an exclusive preserve

Inside lot

Lot type not ideal or least desirable for a public school

accessible from the airport

Most desirable site location for a boutique hotel

Genius loci

The spirit of the place

branch

City shape that develops its from transformation spines or natural valleys.

Grid

Most practical street layout

Town

Not an element of a Greek city

Campidoglio

One of Michael Angelo’s finest works seen at a distance as a whole composition, notable by its Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurellus as a centerpiece.

Passive cooling

A building design approach that focuses on heat gain control and heat dissipation in a building in order to improve the indoor Thermal comfort with low or no energy consumption.

Bioclimatic Chart

A tool use to identify the passive cooling strategy appropriate for the building site.

Calado

A Latticework panels that framed the translucent capiz shells used to completely shut windows at night or during a storm

Transportation map

Indicates data on circulation system within the area

Red-violet and Blue-violet

Colors will harmonize and contrast (Split Complimentary) Yellow

Green

Color will aid Red to stand-out or will dilute its intensity.

Concentric Zone Theory

Theory that gave the explanation of distribution of social groups within urban areas.

Multiple Nuclei Theory

Theory that considers the dependency of people in automobiles as residents are not concentrated in a single CBD rather with manufacturing also and other industries.

Letchworth, United Kingdom

First Garden City is located at

Megacity

A merging of two or more metropolis with a population of 10 million or more, a 20th century phenomenon

Urbanization

The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.

City Beautiful Movement

Movement that believed that such beautification could promote a harmonious social order that would increase the quality of life.

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano

Architects of Centre Pompidou

Victor Horta

One of the founders of Art Nouveau in 1890s

Tensile structure

Inspired by some of the First man-made shelter, the term usually used to refer to the construction of roofs using a membrane held in place on steel cables. Frei Otto first demonstrated this in German Pavilion, Expo ’67.

Winslow house

The “First Prairie House” designed by FLW.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Did not work under Peter Behrens

Alvar Aalto

Dictum: “Architecture is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.”

Richard Neutra

Dictum: “Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality” and he coined the term “Biorealism”

Tomas Mapua

First registered architect of the Philippines.