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Deborah K.Dietsch

Architecture For Dummies

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  • Olya Romanovahas quoted8 years ago
    A protected grouping of buildings is known as an historic district
  • Senpaihas quoted6 years ago
    With enough exposure to architecture, anyone can become an expert. The secret is to experience buildings — not through magazines, books, lectures, or photographs but by soaking up the real thing, the physicality of space.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    Urban architecture, on the other hand, is designed in relationship to context, or existing structures and streets that surround new buildings.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    Many architects use topography as a starting point for their designs.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    Symmetry reflects the bilateral form of the human body
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    Architects shape space by using solids, voids, scale, massing, proportion, rhythm, color, texture, and light.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    Winston Churchill once observed, people shape their buildings and afterwards their buildings shape them.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    Architecture is an important part of our lives, helping us shape the natural environment for human needs.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    architecture is dependent on structure and materials to create a visual language, each chapter explains the development of the construction technologies that made each style possible.
  • Ainna Sabrihas quoted7 years ago
    architecture through its essential attributes — function, structure, and beauty
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