Design history homework

 Be sure to use the attachment reading to answer these questions

Here is the link to another source: 

https://archive.org/stream/arthistory_201403/0205744206_Art%201#page/n184/mode/1up

Be sure use the Chapter 12

Note: There are many inter-connections between the design forms, materials, concepts, etc. we covered in class, and many ways you could restate, in your own words, how they all weave together. Use the questions below to suggest the full range of these connections – but don’t let the particular order of “shape” of these questions get in the way of organizing the material in the way that you can do it best. For example, if you wanted to answer both of the questions below in one essay, organized differently perhaps, you could certainly do so. However it seems to make the most sense to you to organize all of what you learned. And do check out the reading, it will help.

1. Compare the cities of Teotihuacan and Tikal in terms of

            a) the natural environment in which each is situated, and its impact on morphology, composition/layout,                 and materiality of architectural forms and the city over all;

            b) the ways in which these two societies’ key beliefs and intentions about life and the universe are                                    represented or involved in design forms or their organization in each case (remember the link to                      

                symbolism and/or conceptual representation in each);

            c) any general stylistic or morphological differences in architectural form or detail and what might                                       explain (or correlate with) these differences;

            d) the purposes for which the most prominent and important structures, the temple-pyramids, were made;

2. What is the key material we identified (and which you were shown samples of in class) for each culture; what

    was it used for; and give an example of its practical (economic, technological, etc.) value to the society? What    

    does the way they used (and shaped) these materials – in each case – say about the two societies and their  

    beliefs, way of life or signature design forms/stylistic identity? Can you relate the products they made with these   

    materials to key forms seen in art, architecture, architectural detail or ornament, or writing forms? Can you relate  

    them to the two symbolic forms we covered in the last class (butterfly and scroll)?