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- •Архитектура строительство
- •Part I unit 1 civil engineering
- •II. Read and translate the text. Civil Engineering
- •III. A few explanations to the text
- •IV. Answer the questions
- •VI. By your own words try to explain:
- •VII. Give as many words as you can to the word engineering
- •V. Read the text and tell the group what is a home for you? What is home? (after Ernestine Schumann-Heink)
- •Unit 2 construction works
- •II. Without translating find information in the text to the following questions.
- •Construction Works
- •III. Find English equivalents in the text.
- •IV. Translate the sentences.
- •Unit 3 some building professions
- •I. Listen, read and remember.
- •II. Scan the text for about 10 minutes and find the sentences with words from I Some Building Professions
- •III. A few explanations to the text.
- •IV. Read and translate the text « Some Building Professions». Give equivalent English phrases to the following Russian ones.
- •VII. Complete the sentences according to the text:
- •VIII. Tell the class about common building professions unit 4 modern building materials
- •II. A few explanations to the text.
- •III. Read and translate the text. Modern Building Materials
- •IV. Add the missing parts of the sentences from the text.
- •V. Translate into English, and find sentences in the text with following word-combinations.
- •VI. Tell the group about any of the building materials.
- •VII. Discuss different building materials from the text finishing the following phrases:
- •IX. Answer following questions. Then read the text and check your meanings.
- •Modern Building Materials
- •X. Translate following phrases.
- •XI. Write out international words out from the text and translate them without a dictionary.
- •XII. Add the missing parts of the sentences from the text
- •XIII. Share your opinion.
- •Unit 5 silicate industry
- •Silicate Industry
- •Unit 6 asbestos
- •Asbestos
- •Vocabulary
- •II. Read and translate the text and complete the sentences.
- •II. Read the following text. Prepare several questions for discussion and discuss them in your group.
- •Unit 8 architecture: its forms and functions
- •IV. Read the text and answer the following questions.
- •Architecture: Its Forms and Functions
- •V. Talk about architecture
- •VI. Speak about architecture. Use the following words:
- •Unit 9 bioclimatic architecture
- •I. Read a few explanations to the text
- •III. Read and translate the text. What Is Meant by "Bioclimatic Architecture"
- •Unit 10 from the history of building
- •I. Read a few explanations to the text
- •III. Find in the text equivalent English phrases to the following Russian
- •From the History of Building
- •IV. Explain in English the meaning of the following words:
- •V. Translate the extract into Russian
- •VI. Make a report about the history of building ant tell it in class.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •Text 2 great sphinx
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the synonyms to the words in italics.
- •II. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the sentence.
- •Ancient greek architecture Warming-up
- •The athenian acropolis
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •II. Choose the right adjective.
- •III. Choose the right form of the verb.
- •Roman architecture Warming up
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the sentences.
- •Early christian and byzantine architecture Warming-up
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right word.
- •II. Choose the right sentence.
- •Vocabulary
- •Romanesque architecture
- •Lancet architecture Warming-up
- •Gothic cathedrals
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the sentences.
- •II. Choose the right sentence.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •Text 2 The Renaissance style in England
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right form of the adjective.
- •II. Choose the right sentences.
- •III. Circle a), b), or c) to complete the following sentences.
- •Text 2.
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the right verb.
- •Neoclassicism Warming-up
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Complete the following sentences.
- •The architecture of the turn of the centuries Warming up
- •Art nouveau
- •Vocabulary
- •I Choose the right sentence.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •III. Answer the following questions. Only one variant is correct from the three choices.
- •The architecture of the 20th century Warming-up
- •Charles edouard (jeanneret) le corbusier
- •Vocabulary
- •I. Choose the appropriate adjective.
- •II. Complete the following sentences.
- •British architecture Buildings: first impressions
- •British architecture
- •Richard Rogers
- •Part III Amsterdam
- •Budapest
- •Helsinki
- •Wien Vienna
- •Оглавление
Unit 8 architecture: its forms and functions
I. Let's talk about architecture.
1. What famous Russian/English architectors do you know?
2. Among Seven Wonders of the World there were some famous buildings and constructions. Do you know them?
3. What famous architectural complexes in Russia do you know?
4. What do you think about your city/town architecture?
II. Read few explanations to the text
1... .a building cannot be considered as a work of architecture. —здание не может считаться архитектурным произведением.
2... .in the first century В. С. (before Christ) —.. .в первом веке до нашей эры (до рождества Христова).
3. No true architect could think of any of them... — Ни один настоящий архитектор не смог бы думать только об одном из них...
4. It needs some unique type of imagination... — Она (архитектура) требует своеобразного видения...
III. Read the vocabulary to the text.
Entail[xn’tail] |
вызывать |
Evolve[I’volv] |
развиваться |
Incoherent [inkqu’hiqrqnt] |
непоследовательный, несвязный |
Inherent[in’ hiqrqnt] |
присущий, неотъемлемый |
Heritage [‘heritiG] |
наследство |
Requite [rik’wait] |
вознаграждение |
Triple[tripl] |
тройной; утраивать |
IV. Read the text and answer the following questions.
1. What is architecture?
2. What is the oldest book to set forth the principles of construction?
3. How should mankind deal with the heritage of the past?
4. What three basic factors in architecture were listed nearly two thousand years ago?
5. Why architecture is a difficult art?
6. What can we say about any truly great building?
7. What integration must an architect achieve?
Architecture: Its Forms and Functions
Architecture is the art or science of planning, building and structures. Without consideration of structural principles, materials, social and economic requirements a building cannot take form. But without aesthetical quality inherent in its form *a building cannot be considered as a work of architecture as well.
From the very beginning of construction in human history lots of architectural skills, systems and theories have been evolved for the construction of the buildings, which have housed nations and generations of people in any kind of their activity. Writings on architecture are almost as old as writing itself. Books on the theory of architecture, on the art of buildings, and on the aesthetical view of buildings exist in great number. The oldest book, which sets forth the principles, upon which buildings should be designed and which aim is to guide the architect, is the work of Markus Vitruvius Pollio written *in the first century B. C.
Architecture is an art. Its nowadays expression should be creative and consequently new. The heritage of the past cannot be ignored, but it must be expressed in modern terms. There exists an evident paradox in the coexistence of change and survival in every period of human civilization. This paradox of change and repetition is clearly illustrated in any architectural style.
Architecture is also the style or manner of building in a particular country or period of history. There are widely known examples of Gothic architecture all round the globe. During many centuries mankind admires the architecture of ancient Greece or Roman Empire as well.
Nearly two thousand years ago the Roman architect Vitruvius listed three basic factors in architecture. They are convenience, strength and beauty. These three factors have been present and are always interrelated in the best constructions till the 21st century. *No true architect could think of any of them without almost automatically considering the other two as well. Thus, architectural design entails not only the necessity to study various solutions for convenience, structure, and appearance as three separate processes. Architectural design also includes the necessity to keep in mind the constant interaction of these factors. It's impossible for an architect first plan a building from the point of view of convenience, and then make the design of a strong construction around his plan to shelter it. Then, as a final touch, try to adjust and decorate the whole to make it pretty. Any design evolving from such kind of work will produce only a confused, incoherent, and unsatisfactory building. When speaking about any truly great building we cannot but say that every element in it has a triple implication or significance.
This triple nature of architectural design is one of the reasons why architecture is a difficult art. *It needs some unique type of imagination as well as long years of training and experience to make a designer capable of getting requite in the light of these three factors—use, construction, and aesthetic effect—simultaneously. The designer must have a good knowledge as of engineering so of building materials. This knowledge will enable him to create economically strong and practical construction. The designer, in addition, must possess the creative imagination, which will enable him to integrate the plan and the construction into the harmonious whole. The architect's feeling of satisfaction in achieving such integration is one of his/her (their) greatest rewards.