Building Elements
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
Turet
Known for its regional focus on the marine habitats of Northern California, it was the first to exhibit a living kelp forest when it opened in October 1984. Its biologists have pioneered the animal husbandry of jellyfish and it was the first to successfully care for and display a great white shark.
Monterey Bay Aquarium
______(born 17 November 1955) is a Stirling Prize-winning British architect,[2] and principal of ALA.
Amanda Levete
______-a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho, who co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won.
Parasite
A low wall projecting from the edge of a platform, terrace, or roof.
Parapet
______is a 48-story futurist skyscraper and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline
Transamerica Pyramid
_____is the art world’s favorite architect. But her work is nothing if not subtle—rather than the splashy icons we have come to expect from the starchitects long chosen to design art galleries and museums, Selldorf prefers to craft what she modestly calls “functional” settings for art. Rooted in an understated modernist aesthetic, with an updated material palate and innovative geometries, Selldorf ’s exhibition spaces have remade the white cube for the twenty-first century. Small wonder, then, that she is frequently sought out to design the homes of high-profile art collectors, or that she has now designed major museums and galleries for over two decades, from the Neue Galerie and the Swiss Institute to David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth.
Annabelle Selldorf
The silent film is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction movie, being among the first feature-length movies of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €19,000,000 in 2020.
Metropolis (1927 film)
_____is a round, stylized flower design, used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity, appearing in Mesopotamia and used to decorate the funeral stele in Ancient Greece.
Rosette
_______was such a departure from existing residential architecture because of what it did not have; there is no conventional living room, dining room or bedrooms in the house. The residence was meant to be a cooperative live/work space for two young families. The concrete walls and sliding glass panels made novel use of industrial materials, while the open floor plan integrated the external environment into the residence, setting a precedent for California architecture in particular.
Schindler House
____is known for her "concern with material innovation and conceptual clarity. Her projects include the A.R.T. New York theater, the canopy at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Pembroke Hall at Brown University, exhibit design at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and numerous residential projects in the United States, Taiwan, China, and Austria.
Toshiko Mori
The film is set in a luxury tower block during the 1970s. Featuring a wealth of modern conveniences, the building allows its residents to become gradually uninterested in the outside world. The infrastructure begins to fail and tensions between residents become apparent, and the building soon descends into chaos.
High Rise
Wood ______, a thin facing layer of wood · Masonry ______, a thin facing layer of brick · Stone ______, a thin facing layer of stone ·
Veneer
________is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco along with the Legion of Honor.
De Young Museum
She became the first woman to design a federal building when commissioned as architect for the Oklahoma City Federal Building, which replaced the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Ross Barney's other projects include the JRC Synagogue (LEED Platinum), James I Swenson Civil Engineering Building, (LEED Gold) the CTA Morgan Street Station, and the Chicago Riverwalk.
Carol Ross Barney
_____ a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.It is the first installment in The _____ film series. Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano, it depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, the ____, which intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source.
The Matrix
______is a type of window that uses moveable pieces of glass that are separated by thin metal strips known as muntins. Sashes were frequently used in Victorian and Georgian architecture.
Sash
________is a historic beachfront hotel in the city of _______, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is the second largest wooden structure in the United States (after the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon) and was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Hotel del Coronado
______is a registered architect in Germany and was appointed as a member of the BDA (Association of German Architects) in 2016, she has taught architectural design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and also at Tsinghua University. She received a number of international awards and fellowships, i.e. the Fulbright Grant for Mutual Understanding, the Sidney Katz Award for talented graduate students of Architecture and the DAAD Graduate Scholarship for study and work in China. She is a juror for the Architizer A+ Awards and a member of the Advisory Board of XJTLU (Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University).
BINKE LENHARDT
______ is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced the film with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.-
Inception