A 1000 words paper, contents all needs from readings and the notes that I gave

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DES 201 Design, Cultural Traditions and the Environment spring 2016

department of design, cvpa, syracuse university

TEST 6; Due in class , 5/3, printed, same format as previous tests. You should consult the posted reading as well as the chapter on the Americas in the Textbook (Chapter 13 in the 5th edition).

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)?