Forms

Question 1

Architecture

Answer 1

give us insight into the nature of our own culture because it is so bound up with the life of a culture as a whole

Question 2

Persia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt

Answer 2

places where their architecture is characterized by surface decoration unrelated to the structural function of the bearing members

Question 3

Egypt

Answer 3

The place where the column was shaped as a decorative element first and as a structural member second

Question 4

Crete

Answer 4

The place where the columns were separated elements which tapered
downwards

Question 5

Greece

Answer 5

The place where the column was more deliberately expressed as an active element
in the load bearing system

Question 6

Rome

Answer 6

The place where the arc and vault enormously enlarged the scope of the building and allowed much more expansive spaces

Question 7

Arc and Vault

Answer 7

This type of construction became a dominant theme in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic architecture

Question 8

Gothic Architecture

Answer 8

An architecture where the creative expression was inspired by the art
of transferring forces

Question 9

Renaissance

Answer 9

Form of architecture where the ultimate goal was a harmonious composition of
the geometrical shapes in the façade

Question 10

Renaissance

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The period where there was a tendency to express forces by means of building forms

Question 11

Baroque

Answer 11

The architecture where space
expressed movement in excessive undulating forms

Question 12

Modernism

Answer 12

the first style that did not permit eclecticism

Question 13

Form

Answer 13

the primary identifying characteristic of a volume, it is determined by the shape and interrelationships of the planes that describe the boundaries of a volume

Question 14

Shape

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The principal identifying characteristic of form

Question 15

Shape

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results from the specific configuration of a form’s surface and edges.

Question 16

Size

Answer 16

the real dimensions of form, its length, width, and depth

Question 17

Color

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the hue, intensity, and total value of form’s surface

Question 18

Color

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the attribute that most clearly distinguishes a form from its environment

Question 19

Color

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It also affects the visual weight of a
form

Question 20

Texture

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the surface characteristics of a form

Question 21

Texture

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affects both tactile and light-reflective qualities of a form’s surfaces

Question 22

Position

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a form’s location relative to the environment or visual field

Question 23

Orientation

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a form’s position relative to the ground plane, the compass points, or to the person viewing the form

Question 24

Visual Inertia

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the degree of concentration and stability of a form

Question 25

Visual Inertia

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depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative to the ground plane and our line of sight

Question 26

Conditions that affect the properties of forms

Answer 26

perspective, distance, lighting, visual surrounding

Question 27

Properties of Form

Answer 27

Shape, size, color, texture, position, orientation, visual inertia

Question 28

Shape

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a plane’s primary identifying characteristic

Question 29

Shape

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It refer to the edge of a plane or the silhouette of a volume

Question 30

Shape

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It is the primary means by which we recognize and identify the form of the object

Question 31

Circle

Answer 31

A plane curve every point of which is equidistant from a fixed point within the curve

Question 32

Triangle

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A plane figure bounded by three sides and having three angles

Question 33

Square

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A plane figure having four equal sides and four right angle

Question 34

Circle

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s a centralized, introverted figure that is normally stable and self-centering in its environment.

Question 35

Triangle

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signifies stability

Question 36

Square

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represents the pure and the rational

Question 37

Surface

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refers to any figure having only two dimensions, such as a flat plane

Question 38

Surface

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allude to a curved two dimensional locus of points defining the boundary of a three dimensional solid.

Question 39

Classes of curved surface

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Cylindrical, transitional, ruled, rotational, paraboloids, hyperbolic

Question 40

Cylindrical Surfaces

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are generated by sliding a straight line along a plane curve, or vice versa

Question 41

Translational Surfaces

Answer 41

are generated by sliding a plane curve along a straight line or over another plane curve.

Question 42

Ruled Surfaces

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are generated by the motion of a straight line

Question 43

Rotational Surfaces

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are generated by rotating a plane curve about an axis

Question 44

Paraboloids

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are surfaces all of whose intersections by planes are either parabolas and ellipses or parabolas and hyperbolas

Question 45

Parabolas

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are plane curves generated by a moving point that remains equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point not on the line

Question 46

Hyperbolas

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are plane curves formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane that cuts both halves of the cone

Question 47

Hyperbolic Paraboloids

Answer 47

are surfaces generated by sliding a parabola with downward curvature along a parabola with upward curvature, or by sliding a straight line segment with its ends on two skew lines.

Question 48

Sphere

Answer 48

A solid generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter, whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center.