This document provides information about a guest speaker presentation on architecture. It includes: - Details on the guest speakers and their backgrounds in architecture. - Definitions of architecture and what architects do, including interpreting needs, engineering, creative design, drafting, and construction documents. - Skills needed to be an architect like math, computer, communication, and understanding impacts on the environment. - Aspects of design like proportion, scale, and examples like the Golden Ratio. - Requirements to become a registered architect which can take 9 years and includes a masters degree, internship, and exams.

1. Architecture
Wightman and Associates

2. Guest Speaker
• Mark Smith, MARC Andrews University, LEED GA, Licensed
Contractor
• Wightman and Associates, Architecture and Engineering, Benton
Harbor – Graduate Architect
• Nehil-Sivak Structural Engineers, Kalamazoo – Revit 3D Modeling and
Structural Construction Documents

3. What is Architecture?
• The art or science of building, specifically: the
art or practice of building structures and
especially habitable ones. – Merriam-Webster

4. Art
Santa Maria Del Fiore, Firenze Italy
1296-1436 BCE

5. Art and Science
Great Pyramid of Khufu, El Giza Egypt
2580-2560 BCE
Santa Maria Del Fiore, Firenze Italy
1296-1436 BCE

6. What do Architects do?
• Interpret people’s need into buildings
• Engineer
• Creative design and problem solving
• Draw
• Hand sketches
• Computer drafting
• 3D modeling and digital imagining
• Construction documents/contracts

7. What it takes to be an Architect
• Good math skills, you use algebra, calculus, physics
• Good computer skills – most drawing is done via computer
• Good reading, interpretation, writing and communication skills
• Appreciation and understanding of our planet and the effects humans
have on it.
• Dedication – it takes a lot of time and hard work to become an
architect.

8. Proportion
• Harmonious relation of parts to each other
or the whole. – Merriam-Webster

9. Proportion and Ratio

10. Golden Ratio
• 1:1.618…

11. Scale
• Proportion refers to mathematical
relationships among real dimensions.
• Scale refers to how we perceive the size of
things relative to other things.
• Generic scale – the size of a building element relative
to other forms in its context.
• Human scale – the size of a building element or space
relative to the dimensions and proportions of he
human body.

12. What it takes to be an Architect
• Masters in Architecture is
typically a 6 year program.
• 5600 Hours (3 years) of work for
a registered architect, spread
over six categories in order to
take the registration exams.
• Six – two hours courses with a
50% failure rate.
• Typically a minimum of 9 years
to become a registered
Architect—how long does it
take to be a doctor?
Registered Architect
Registration Testing
Internship
Masters Degree

13. Reward
Cool Stuff!

35. Building Trivia
Name, location…

36. Who am I?

37. Parthenon
Athens, Greece
447 BCE
Architects: Ictinus and
Callicrates

38. Who am I?

39. Eiffel Tower
Paris, France
1887 - 1889
Architect: Gustave Eiffel

40. Who am I?

41. Collosseo
Roma, Italy
66 - 70 CE
Emperors: Vespasian, Titus

42. Who am I?

43. Fallingwater
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
1935 - 1938
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

44. Who am I?

45. Palace of
Westminster (Big
Ben)
London, England
1840 - 1870
Architects: Charles Barry and
Augustus Pugin

46. Who am I?

47. Sydney Opera
House
Sydney, Australia
1959 - 1973
Architect: Utzon

48. Who am I?

49. Pantheon
Roma, Italy
118 - 128 CE
Architect: Apollodorus of
Damascus

50. Who am I?

51. Notre Dame de
Paris
Paris, France
1163 - 1250
Architects: de Sully, others

52. Who am I?

53. Empire State
Building
New York City, USA
1930 - 1931
Architects: Shreve, Lamb, and
Harmon

54. Who am I?

55. San Pietro
Roma, Italy
1506 - 1626
Architects: Bramante, Bernini,
Michelangelo, Maderno, and
more

56. Who am I?

57. Taj Mahal
Agra, India
1632 - 1653
Architects: Lahouri, Isa

58. Who am I?

59. Basilica
Hagia Sophia
Istanbul, Turkey
532 - 537
Architects: Isidore of Milletus
and Anthemius of Tralles

60. Who am I?

61. Angkor Wat
Cambodia
12th Century
King: Suryavarman II

62. Who am I?

63. Louvre
Paris, France
12th Century - 1988
Architects: Several

64. Who am I?

65. Piazza dei
Miracoli
Pisa, Italy

66. Campanile of
Pisa
Pisa, Italy
1173 - 1319
Architect: Pisano, Deotisalvi