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architecture

vr.tr.architecture · ACT.ACT

Let an agent handle architecture as a discipline, profession and body of works, with styles, practitioners, regulation and heritage.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle architecture as a discipline, profession and body of works, with styles, practitioners, regulation and heritage.

The art and practice of designing buildings and other structures, and the built results considered as works of design, including vernacular traditions and styles.

What it is for: Shaping built environments for use, safety, meaning and beauty.

It can be design buildings and spaces; practise it, as a registered architect where required; study and teach it; protect it, as heritage.

Distinguishing features

A discipline and profession as well as its products

Protected title in many countries

Includes vernacular building without architects

Building services engineering is a related discipline

What it looks like

Buildings and spaces; drawings, models and plans; styles visible in form, materials and ornament.

How it is recognised

Style features such as roof forms, proportions and ornament

Vernacular types such as minka or gassho-zukuri farmhouses

Architects credits on drawings and plaques

Related models

produces - buildings as works

building

is practised by - profession

architect

is regulated by - rules

building and planning law

is confused with - a metaphorical use

software architecture

In practice

Families and kinds

by style: classical, gothic, modernist and many more

vernacular architecture

landscape and interior architecture

sustainable and passive design

Standards and regulation

Architects registration law, such as the EU Professional Qualifications Directive

Building codes and planning law

UNESCO World Heritage Convention

Failure modes and hazards

Unsafe designs

Loss of heritage

Inaccessible design

Also called

lavatoriumminkaKabuto-zukuriTamugimata multilayered housegyokagasshō-zukuribuilding services engineeringBuilding Services Technologyanti-rollback deviceResidential frame engineeringrock-cut architecturerock-cut architecture in Indiafunerary architectureKibitsu-zukurihyper-density structurevisionary architectureopen-source architecturetransport civil engineeringnaval architectureCarpenter's JoyMāori architecturenaval architecture and marine engineeringBionic architecturearchitectural heritage and conservationarchitectural computer sciencearchitectural geometryupstream-downstream axisneo-Mudéjararchitecture of the Earthprehistoric architectureIslamic architecturesacred architecturecolonial architectureDutch colonial architectureMoroccan architecturecolonial architecture of Latin AmericaInternational Gothic art in EuropeIndo-Islamic architectureIslamic architecture of North MacedoniaReligious Islamic architecture

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.architecture-act

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Style and type What kind of architecture.

Style and type place a work.

Style

Period and movement.

Style

The style.

  1. Which style or movement does this work belong to? definition
  2. Which features show it? definition

Typology

Building type.

Typology

The building type.

  1. What building type is it? definition
  2. Is it a vernacular type? definition
Practice Architects and design.

Practice is regulated and credited.

Architect

Designer and firm.

Credit

Who designed it.

  1. Who designed it, and when? provenance
  2. Is the architect registered? provenance

Design process

Brief to completion.

Process

Stages of design.

  1. What were the brief and design stages? definition
  2. Which approvals were needed? boundary
Performance How well it works.

Architecture is judged by use as well as form.

Function

Use and accessibility.

Function

How it serves users.

  1. How well does it serve its users, including disabled people? measurement
  2. What post-occupancy evaluation exists? provenance

Sustainability

Energy and materials.

Sustainability

Environmental performance.

  1. What are its energy and carbon performance? measurement
  2. Which certifications does it have? provenance
Heritage Protection of works.

Significant architecture is protected.

Status

Listing.

Heritage status

Protection status.

  1. Is this work protected, at which level? provenance
  2. What changes need consent? boundary

Conservation

Repair and change.

Conservation

Conservation approach.

  1. How should it be repaired? action
  2. Which charters guide conservation? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should styles be separate entries?
  • How should vernacular types be linked to regions?
  • How should architects and works be linked?
Draft as JSON