Nikolaus Pevsner---Architectural historian who identified three related components of modern architecture: An honest use of materials, An appreciation of new construction technologies, The spirit of youth.
An honest use of materials---modern architects demand that architectural form should be with an ideological, indeed moral stance, and think decorators a sort of petty criminals.
An appreciation of new construction technologies---A desire for the serialized production of building components and a concomitant reduction of architectural form to a point where programmatic needs are efficiently and objectively satisfied with no decorative or symbolic remainder. But the emphasis on materials and technology also tended to produce buildings and perceptions of buildings that were "thingified" which is signifying an intense facture, an absence of finish or refinement, and a separation of compositional units.
The spirit of youth---an air of freshness and gaiety, the vitality of health-giving forms, and the spirit of collectivity and community.
Aesthetic materialism----House building materials produce aesthetic pleasure. The buildings is an assemblage of colors, textures, even smells and temperatures, and these are producing a play of sensuous energies in the viewer, a deep pleasure taken in the unadorned fact of the building and its context.
Organic Architecture----A philosophy of architecture which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world through design approaches so sympathetic and well integrated with its site that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings become part of a unified, interrelated composition.
Plastic---The elements such as function, mass, surface, time, space, light, colour, material for architecture.
Horticulture----The art and science of the cultivation of plants. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the fields of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic engineering, plant biochemistry, and plant physiology.
Processing----An open source project initiated by Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry, both formerly of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is "a programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities", which aims to teach the basics of computer programming in a visual context, and to serve as the foundation for electronic sketchbooks. One of the stated aims of Processing is to act as a tool to get non-programmers started with programming, through the instant gratification of visual feedback. The language builds on the graphical capabilities of the Java programming language, simplifying features and creating a few new ones.
Subtract---to take out some images, objects, or other elements from the original pieces to be better.
Design is Design is Design---Any art forms such as paintings, architectures, and photography live in the same principle. Each can break into same elements.
Physiological Response to Color---When we are in a room painted in red, we feel excited and get warmer. On the other hand, when we are in the blue room, we get cooler.
Jazz Age---- The period from 1918-1929, from the end of World War I to the rise of the Great Depression. The age takes its name from jazz music, which became very popular among many segments of society. In this period, many minoriry started to get independen from old accustomed treatment. Women left the house for seeking jobs. Gay and Lesbian people started coming out.
Idiosyncrasy---A peculiar point of view in your art pieces. Good design always have a voice. The term can also be applied to symbols. Idiosyncratic symbols mean one thing for a particular person, as a blade could mean war, but to someone else, it could symbolize a surgery. By the same principle, linguists state that words are not only arbitrary, but also largely idiosyncratic signs.
