TOA - MIDTERM EXAM REVIEWER
TOA - MIDTERM EXAM REVIEWER
TOA - MIDTERM EXAM REVIEWER
BILATERAL SYMMETRY
2. CONTRAST Refers to the balanced arrangement
Opposition or juxtaposition of of similar or equivalent elements on
dissimilar elements in a work of art opposite sides of a median axis so
to intensify each element’s that only one plane can divide the
properties and produce a more whole into essentially identical
dynamic expressiveness. halves.
MIDTERMS: THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1 REVIEWER
RADIAL SYMMETRY
4 TYPES OF RHYTHM
The balanced arrangement of
1. SLOW AND FAST RHYTHM
similar, radiating elements such
2. COMPLICATING RHYTHM
that the composition can be divided
3. TERMINATING RHYTHM
into similar halves by passing a
4. ACCENTING RHYTHM
plane at any angle around a
center point or along a central
axis.
REPETITION
4. HIERARCHY
The act or process of repeating
The articulation of the importance formal elements or motifs in a
or significance of a form or space by design.
its size, shape, or placement The simplest form of repetition is a
relative to the other forms and linear pattern of redundant
spaces of the organization. elements. They may be grouped
according to:
3 TYPES OF HIERARCHY
size;
HIERARCHY BY SIZE shape; or
detail characteristics.
A form or space may dominate an
architectural composition by being
significantly different in size from PROPORTIONING SYSTEMS
all the other elements in the
GOLDEN SECTION
composition.
can be defined as the ratio between
HIERARCHY BY SHAPE
two sections of a line, or the two
A form or space can be made dimensions of a plane figure, in
visually dominant and thus which the lesser of the two is to the
important by clearly greater as the greater is to the sum
differentiating its shape from of both.
that of the other elements in the Ex. Parthenon and Tempietto, St.
composition Pietro
2. CYLINDER
FORM
Revolution of rectangle about
the point of contact between mass
one of its side.
and space.
3. CONE
PROPERTIES OF FORM
Revolution of a right triangle
1. SHAPE
about one of its sides.
2. SIZE
The cone is a highly stable form
3. TEXTURE
when resting on its circular base
4. COLOR
5. POSITION 4. PYRAMID
6. ORIENTATION
polyhedron having a polygonal
7. VISUAL INERTIA
base and triangular faces
meeting at a common point or
vertex.
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CLUSTERED
SPATIAL TENSION A centralized organization has a
Relies on close proximity of the strong geometric basis for the
forms or their sharing of a common ordering of its forms, a clustered
visual trait, such as shape, color, or organization groups its forms
material. according to functional
requirements of size, shape, or
EDGE-TO-EDGE CONTACT proximity.
OVERHEAD PLANE
U-HAPED PLANES
L-SHAPED PLANES
An L-shaped configuration of
vertical planes generates a field of
space from its corner outward
along a diagonal axis.