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A GUIDE FOR UNDERSTANDING ARCHITECTURE |
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Aesthetic: Artistic, relating to or dealing
with the beautiful, especially in art, a feelingful. response. |
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Aesthetics: A branch of philosophy that deals with
the nature of the beautiful and judgment of beauty. |
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Sensory Elements: |
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We perceive information about works of art through
our senses. By carefully examining a work of art, we learn to organize
our sensory perceptions by identifring them as elements of art. Architects
use sensory elements in the preliminary design of a building. Beginning
with lines and shapes, the architect draws an inception of how a building
will look after it is constructed. |
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Sensory Elements include: Line Shape Color Texture Light and Dark Space |