Selected Bibliography Architecture - Form Space and Order | Page 12

I N T RODUC T I ON

…& Orders
Physical

Form and Space
• solids and voids
• interior and exterior

Systems and organizations of
• space
• structure
• enclosure
• machines

Perceptual Sensory perception and recognition of the physical
elements by experiencing them sequentially in time

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approach and departure
entry and egress
movement through the order of spaces
functioning of and activities within spaces
qualities of light, color, texture, view, and sound

Conceptual Comprehension of the ordered or disordered
relationships among a building’s elements and systems,
and responding to the meanings they evoke

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images
patterns
signs
symbols

• context

SPACE

FORM

FUNCTION

TECHNICS*

* Technics refers to the theory, principles, or study of an art or a process.

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