Unit 2 Exam

exam for intro to design unit 2

Profession

Profession

Expert in a particular field who's status is achieved through education, self-imposed standards, and professional gate-keeping organizations.

Landscape Architecture

The combo. Of art and environmental sciences. The design of outdoor public areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, and/or aesthetic outcomes.

Landscape gardening

1.About aesthetics and form 2. For the wealthy 3. 1800s 4. Garden of Versailles

Landscape Architecture History

1. 1828

Gilbert Laing Meason

3. Expanded to placement of buildings to site

4. Buildings and structures + landscape

Fredrick Law Olmsted

1. Father of landscape architecture

2. 1863

3. Central Park, New York

4. First professional Landscape Architect

5. Designed for people not just the wealthy

Landscape Arch. National Professional Society

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

1899

Date Landscape architecture national professional society was established

Architecture

The Art and Science of the design and construction of buildings and structures that primarily provide shelter. Has To do with the planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, environmental, and aesthetic considerations.

History of Architecture

In the beginning, Architecture was the result of the basic needs of

Shelter & Worship Cultural Development and societal status Knowledge and sophistication ....

Virtruvius

1. First recorded architect

2. De Architectura

3. Roman

4. 1 AD

5. Good Architecture = Durability, utility, and beauty

Ecole des Beaux Arts

1. Academic Education of architects began — 1795

2. Emphasis on classical orders and historical tradition to become expert.

1857

Date when Architecture became a National Professional Society

Illinois

First state to require a license of architects

Name of Architecture Professional Society

American institute of Architects (AIA)

Interior Design

A multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. These solutions are functional, enhance the quality of life, and culture of the occupants and are aesthetically attractive. Designs are created in response to and coordinated with the building shell and acknowledge the physical location and social...

History of Interior Design

Interior decoration roots + increase in complex systems in architecture + higher expectations of expertise & performance as it relates to human behavior

Candace Wheeler

1. 1877

2. Founder of Society of Decorative Art

Elsie de Wolfe

1. 1905

2. FIRST PROFESSIONAL INTERIOR DECORATOR

3. Focused mostly on the residential

Dorothy Draper

1. First COMMERCIAL interior decorator

2. Focused mostly on hotels

3. 1922

1950s

Date when Interior design became a National Professional Society

Name of interior Design professional society

American Society of Interior Design (AID)

1972

National Council for Interior Design Qualifications date

5 similarities of disciplines

1. Design

2. Built Environment

3. People

4. System Knowledge

5. Visual Communication

Built Environment

A human made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity

What affects built environment

Material, spatial, and cultural factors

How built environment affects people

1. Health

2. Safety

3. Welfare

System Knowledge

Each profession shares a particular set of system knowledge as it relates to the design of the built environment.

System knowledges the 3 professions share

1. Programming

2. Circulation

Programming

How people use, interact with and what they do in the built environment

Circulation

How people move through, to, and around the built environment. Move from program to program: Event to event.

Visual Communication

Each profession relies on visual communication to express their ideas and search for solutions.

Diagram

A simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or working

Orthographic Drawings

1. Conventional system of drawing to represent the design and construction of the built environment.

2. A means of representing three dimensional objects and space in two dimensions.

Types of orthographic drawings

1. Plan

2. Elevation

3. Section

4. Perspective

Plan

A drawing, to scale, that reveals the horizontal relationships between rooms, spaces, and other physical features at one level of a structure

Elevation

View of a building or space seen from one side... A flat representation of a facade or an interior space

Section

A drawing, to scale, that is a vertical cut through and object, building, or space

Perspective

A representation of how a space is perceived by the eye, as one would occupy and experience it ... It allows one to communicate how it would feel to OCCUPY the space

Model

A scaled physical representation of a structure, space, or landscape

Key aspects of discipline

1. Scale

2. Type of Built Environment

3. System Specific Knowledge

Scale

Relative size

Landscape Arch. system knowledge

Environmental Sciences: Habitat, land, soils, ecology, water, vegetation

Architecture system knowledge

Integrating/ managing building tectonics: Structure, mechanical, electrical, material

Interior system knowledge

Interconnection between people and their environment: Spatial standards, intangible and tangible properties of materials, human behavior

Interdisciplinary

Combining or involving two or more academic disciplines of study