Vocabulary Practice

1. Translate into English:

• строительный подрядчик

• чувство пространства

• оказывать огромное влияние на что-либо

• использовать какой-либо термин

• чертежник

• разрушительное землетрясение

• высокий уровень подземных вод

• финансовая поддержка

• возобновить производство

• гражданское строительство

• неплодородная подпочва

• пробиваться сквозь пол

• фондовая биржа

• сравнять с землей

• крыша с низкими скатами

• задумывать

• уходить далеко в прошлое

• придерживаться какого-либо стиля

• подробно писать о чем-либо

проделывать дыру в чем-либ

о

2. Translate into Russian:

• to establish an American form of architecture

• ripe for challenges

• “space within as reality”

• “blending of a house with its natural surroundings”

• a successful rendition of the architect’s efforts

• to a pace setter for industrial and office design

• by way of one’s own contribution to it

• to dissolve in glass

• with unmarred consistency

• ‘of the root’

• ‘to the root’

• to leave off

• continuity and flow of space

• to vie with somebody or something

• to be totally in charge

• architectonicness

• Japanese prints

• by hook or crook

• solar design

• experiential but harmonious

• first and foremost

• iconoclast

nonconformis

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3. Translate the sentences into Russian paying attention to the underlined words:

1. It had no sense of unity at all nor any sense of space as should belong to a free man among a free people in a free country.

2. It’s a part of its environment and it graces its environment rather than disgraces it.

3. Wright directed that a pipe organ be installed on the ground floor for half-hour concerts by an employee each morning and afternoon, a precursor to the lunch-hour concerts given in building corridors or courtyards, for office workers today.

4. Eventually, hundreds of promising young architects were to work with Wright in Wisconsin and at Taliesin West, his winter studio in Arizona which he built in 1938.

5. Your golden moment is all of the time – when you’re in service, when you’re in action and when you’re doing things. This is a kind of learning by doing; and by doing you’ll soon get into a way of being.

6. His plan for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, designed during World War II when Wright was already in his seventies, so confounded the City building department and challenged its codes that it was not completed until 1959, the year of Wright’s death.

7. We can sit and talk architecture, you know, until kingdom come, but until you have the experiences you had when you went into the Robie House on the south side of Chicago, something happens to you.

8. He did not believe everybody should go through the same piece of machinery. That if you’re Japanese you should have the essence of being Japanese.

‘Responsible architecture’ is a term used to describe a recent trend in architecture aimed at constructing buildings from cheap materials that bring no harm to nature. Read the following text, answer the question put at the end and do the tasks below it.