Architecture final exam questions and
answers graded A+ updated
That the patch of dandelions will be the living room of number 24. - correct answer ✔✔What
does the reference to the plough signify in Ch. 6 in "The Architecture of Happiness" by author
Alain de Botton?
The scale of earthly transformation of architecture, and that what we choose to build can lead
to desecration or inspiration. - correct answer ✔✔The images of iron ore excavation and the
construction of the empire state building illustrates what idea by de Botton?
as a wound. - correct answer ✔✔How does de Botton characterize suburban development
patterns over the last 100 years?
nothing... for de Botton, they both represent human error writ large. - correct answer ✔✔What
is the difference between the social housing in St. Louis and the residential high-rise in Hong
Kong?
the belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better. - correct
answer ✔✔The Royal Crescent in Bath, England (1767-1774) by Architect John Wood the
Younger, represents
remembering - correct answer ✔✔6. At the Gold Medal awards ceremony, Faye Jones says:
Architecture is invention, is innovation but it is also
We're about to put this building in the wrong place. - correct answer ✔✔What did Faye Jones
say when the builder was getting ready to start construction on site of the Thorncrown Chapel?
, that certain buildings can have an impact quite out of proportion to their size and cost - correct
answer ✔✔For de Botton, Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, AR, designed by Architect Faye
Jones in 1980, demonstrates
enables us to turn surreal dreams into inhabitable space, to turn fiction into fact. - correct
answer ✔✔For Dutch Architect Bjarke Ingels, architecture must become worldcraft, the craft of
making our world, where our knowledge and technology doesn't limit us, but rather
a sacred trust in human imagination - correct answer ✔✔What is required by de Botton's
notion of 'the promise of a field'?
a building has been designed by a different team of architects. - correct answer ✔✔For Alain de
Botton, "visual incoherence" means
an uncomfortable collision of contrasting styles. - correct answer ✔✔For de Botton, the design
of the Royal Ontario Museum Extension by Architect Daniel Libeskind would represent
Back Bay Boston - correct answer ✔✔Which city appears to be designed by the same team of
architects, depicting a comfortable homogeneity of coinciding styles?
brick, subdivided windows, limestone lintels, and white classical columns - correct answer
✔✔Which of the following visual characteristics or features reinforce de Botton's concept of
"comfortable homogeneity" on the campus of UNC Charlotte?
conflicted confusion - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is not a characteristic of "visual
coherence"?
a soaring thing without a single dissenting line. - correct answer ✔✔Architect Louis Sullivan
proudly claimed the tall building, such as the Woolworth Building by architect Cass Gilbert in
New York of 1913, should be
answers graded A+ updated
That the patch of dandelions will be the living room of number 24. - correct answer ✔✔What
does the reference to the plough signify in Ch. 6 in "The Architecture of Happiness" by author
Alain de Botton?
The scale of earthly transformation of architecture, and that what we choose to build can lead
to desecration or inspiration. - correct answer ✔✔The images of iron ore excavation and the
construction of the empire state building illustrates what idea by de Botton?
as a wound. - correct answer ✔✔How does de Botton characterize suburban development
patterns over the last 100 years?
nothing... for de Botton, they both represent human error writ large. - correct answer ✔✔What
is the difference between the social housing in St. Louis and the residential high-rise in Hong
Kong?
the belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better. - correct
answer ✔✔The Royal Crescent in Bath, England (1767-1774) by Architect John Wood the
Younger, represents
remembering - correct answer ✔✔6. At the Gold Medal awards ceremony, Faye Jones says:
Architecture is invention, is innovation but it is also
We're about to put this building in the wrong place. - correct answer ✔✔What did Faye Jones
say when the builder was getting ready to start construction on site of the Thorncrown Chapel?
, that certain buildings can have an impact quite out of proportion to their size and cost - correct
answer ✔✔For de Botton, Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, AR, designed by Architect Faye
Jones in 1980, demonstrates
enables us to turn surreal dreams into inhabitable space, to turn fiction into fact. - correct
answer ✔✔For Dutch Architect Bjarke Ingels, architecture must become worldcraft, the craft of
making our world, where our knowledge and technology doesn't limit us, but rather
a sacred trust in human imagination - correct answer ✔✔What is required by de Botton's
notion of 'the promise of a field'?
a building has been designed by a different team of architects. - correct answer ✔✔For Alain de
Botton, "visual incoherence" means
an uncomfortable collision of contrasting styles. - correct answer ✔✔For de Botton, the design
of the Royal Ontario Museum Extension by Architect Daniel Libeskind would represent
Back Bay Boston - correct answer ✔✔Which city appears to be designed by the same team of
architects, depicting a comfortable homogeneity of coinciding styles?
brick, subdivided windows, limestone lintels, and white classical columns - correct answer
✔✔Which of the following visual characteristics or features reinforce de Botton's concept of
"comfortable homogeneity" on the campus of UNC Charlotte?
conflicted confusion - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is not a characteristic of "visual
coherence"?
a soaring thing without a single dissenting line. - correct answer ✔✔Architect Louis Sullivan
proudly claimed the tall building, such as the Woolworth Building by architect Cass Gilbert in
New York of 1913, should be
