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CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS
2. VISUAL ELEMENTS
PART 1 OF 2
3. RELATIONAL ELEMENTS
4. PRACTICAL ELEMENTS
CONTENTS
B. FORM AND STRUCTURE
1. FORM AND CONCEPTUAL ELEMENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
2. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF FORMS
A. DEFINITIONS
3. REPETITION OF FORMS
B. THE DIFFERENCE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
C. CLASSIFICATION OF STRUCTURE
C. DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ARCHITECTURE
1. THE GRID
D. ARCHITECTURAL TERMS 1
2. SIMILARITY OF FORMS
3. SIMILARITY VS. GRADATION
II. NEEDS OF MAN
4. CONTRAST OF VISUAL AND RELATIONAL
A. MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
ELEMENTS
B. FOUR FUNADAMENTAL DESIRES OF MAN
5. FORM AND SPACE
6. DESIGN AND FORM
III. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS
A. DESIGN PROCESS
VI. ARCHITECTURE: FORM SPACE AND ORDER
B. DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
A. PRIMARY ELEMENTS OF FORM
C. ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAM
B. FORM
C. FORM AND SPACE: THE UNITY OF OPPOSITES
IV. ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE
D. ORGANIZATION OF FORM AND SPACE
A. HORIZONTAL PLAN
E. CIRCULATION
B. VISIBLE-STRUCTURE ELEMENTS
F. PROPORTION AND SCALE
1. STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
2. PROTECTIVE ELEMENTS
3. CIRCULATORY ELEMENTS
4. DECORATIVE ELEMENTS
A. MOULDINGS
B. ORNAMENTS
CLASSIFICATION
APPROACH
C. ELEMENTS IN ORGANIZING DECORATIVE FORMS
D. EXPRESSIVE LINE SYMBOLS
ENGINEERING
Engineering is functional
Engineering is structurally sound
Engineering is economical
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
The ordering of the physical environment by means of architecture,
engineering construction, landscape architecture, urban design and city
planning.
HORIZONTAL PLAN
Nature of the Plan
a. The plan in an architectural composition is the graphic projection
of the volume of the building.
b. It is the pattern, dictated on the requirement of the building of
which the elements of the elevation and the section emerges.
V.