MULTIPLE VIEWS-something having more than numerous points of views
When I think of multiple views, I tend to think of how almost everyone see's the world. We all choose how we see the world, and we generally see more then one perspective of a building or anything else really. In the drawing sense I think of this term, and drawing something to show it's differences in what the variation of angles can offer the human eye. If when you looked at something in general, if you fully could understand all the views that structure has. And really examining all it's details and time that went into this project. Well I think we could come closer to really appreciating it as a piece of artwork along with architecture instead of just another big building.
ARTIFACT-An object produced or shaped by human craft, especially a tool, weapon, or ornament of archaeological or historical interest
Artifact, this world makes me almost think of a treasure. Something when we find it generally is somewhat of a big deal. But I believe it can be something small that just has a great meaning to a person in particular. Artifacts though have a purpose and usually have a ton of time devoted purely to them, and they make up a lot of this world we live in, there found every single day I'm sure of that. Most of all, it's just a object that holds some sort of value, wheter it be to a single person or to a whole country it can make a big impact.
STORY-a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale
In Patricks class last week we learned about that buildings from centuries ago, hold a story within them. And I think almost everything in this whole world, has a story behind. It's all got some sort of history behind it. Whether it being a short story or an extremly long one, it doesn't matter it's a story. I think that is what draws me so much into photography, because every photo you capture has so much more value and history behind it. But we can put our own story into anything we design, we just have to make sure people know our story most importantly.
TRANSLATION-the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language
This term generally I think of it pretty concretely just as translating something into a language we can understand. But in relation to architecture I can see where this term applies because past buildings built way back might not have left their story for future generations to know. So sometimes we have to interpret or translate the history of this building to help us completly understand it. And we kind of touched on this term in Patricks class, because it has been done so much to find the story behind a structure. I'm sure for future use it will for sure be applied also and I actually don't think of translation as a negative thing.
CYCLES-an interval of time during which a characteristic, often regularly repeated event or sequence of events occurs
Repeating history as that quote goes by George Santayana says, "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And this is kind of what comes to mind when I think of the word cycles. Yesterday we talked about the designing experience and when it starts to become somewhat repetitive. All these terms kind of fall back on each other they, so that is why the story must by told. So we cannot repeat our design process, everytime I believe should be a new an innovative experience seperate from the past.
REFLECTION
I have now been in school at UNCG for a week now today, and I'd say the college life definitely is a change. But all the pressure I have on me now, from this and working; nonetheless I feel quite well. This class of all my others is difficult, just paying very close attention is very vital. But from all these prompts from week 1. I'd say all the terms are close together, especially story and translation and cycles. Because with one we have to do another and possibly could repeat our process thus becoming a cycle. The story must come across clearly and we have to determine it, no matter what it takes even if it involves being translated. If we don't know that structures architecture, we really don't know all the work that went into it. So this is pretty much summing it up for my first week in this class.
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