CarlaB's+Glossary

Teacher's check on Nov.28th, 2009! Comment: Just 10 words in 10 weeks??? And, what about your sentences????

ARCHITECTURE : Architecture is both the process and the product of designing and constructing spaces that reflect and functional, aesthetic and environmental considerations. Architecture requires the use of materials, technology, textures, light, and shadow. As a process, architecture also includes the pragmatic elements of design, such as planning, cost and construction. EXAMPLE:  A walk through Rome is to visit the best architecture of past centuries



Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source, license d and modular design mean that people can develop additional functionality. EXAMPLE: Writing Profiles and Expectations to later upload them to Moodle.
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Recording is a process of capturing data or translating information to a format stored on a storage medium often referred to as a record. EXAMPLE: Recording is necessary to listen to without you is present. **E-zine**: An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers (those investing time or money in its production) and the readership. EXAMPLE: The task is to review an e-zine from my computer.



**BUILDING:** Structural height in technical usage is the height to the highest architectural detail on building from street-level. Depending on how they are classified, spires and masts may or may not be included in this height. Spires and masts used as antennas are not generally included. EXAMPLE:  The woman who works with my mom lives in a 6 storey building.

A summary or recap is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the original (much longer) subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event. The target is to help the audience get the gist in a short period of time. EXAMPLE: In the classes yesterday they sent a summary of a very long text.
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**DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH:** A descriptive paragraph has sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture (description) of a person, a place, a thing, an event, or an idea. Description is commonly used in novels, short stories, and essays. EXAMPLE: We need to do a descriptive paragraph of that bed so that others know it is.

**BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM):** BIM is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. Typically it uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction. EXAMPLE:



CAD is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. CAD often involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engieenering drawing, the output of CAD often must convey also symbolic information such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions.CAD may be used to design curves and figures in two dimensional ("2D") space; or curves, surfaces, or solids in three dimensional ("3D") objects. EXAMPLE:
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It is a fictional virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world. EXAMPLE:
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SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE: ** Sustainable architecture is a general term that describes environmentally-conscious design techniques in the field of architecture. Sustainable architecture is framed by the larger discussion of sustainability and the pressing economic and political issues of our world. EXAMPLE:



Deconstructivism in architecture, also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s. It is characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate some of the elements of architecture, such as structure and envelope. EXAMPLE:
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 **DRAWING TABLE:**  Is a kind of multipurpose desk which can be used for any kind of drawing, writing or impromptu sketching on a large sheet of paper or for reading a large format book or other oversized document or for drafting precise technical illustrations. EXAMPLE:



BRICK: A brick is a block of ceramic used to construct. Bricks are used to construct buildings and pavement. It is made of concrete, clay or adobe. There are some bricks resistant to fire (it is used to contruct fireplaces and ovens. Bricks are used in buildings or pavement, but mostly are used to build walls or partitions.



CONCRETE: Concrete is a very strong and with a low cost construction material composed of cement, sand, water and other aggregates. It is used to fill streets, to construct rustic tables for external areas and other things, to construct bridges and domes. Cement with water gives the property of firmness to the concret. Concrete is used more than any other man-made material in the world. This material were used for the first time in 1840, so it is a very recient construction material.



WOOD: Wood is a very good and natural construction material. It is used to decorate and to construct houses and roller coasters; to decorate walls, floors and much more. There are different tecnhiques to work with wood and different techniques to give new properties to it.



URBAN PLANNING: Urban planning is a professional study related with the organization of the cities. You can develope process in colaboration with architects, engineer and more professional people. Urban planning is related with citizen's feelings. An urban planner is dedicated to make better the social life and social spaces.



CONSTRUCTION: In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed by the project manager and supervised by the construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect.



CITY: A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement, particularly a large urban settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.



DESIGN: Design is the planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system. It can be used both as a noun and as a verb and, in a broader way, it means applied arts and engineering. As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component with intention. As a noun, "a design" is used for either the final (solution) plan (e.g. proposal, drawing, model, description) or the result of implementing that plan in the form of the final product of a design process.