ARC 308 Final Exam Questions
Complete Solutions Current
Update (A+ Pass)
Reasons to learn architecture - Answers -✔✔ Familiarize
Increase Awareness
Become advocate
Effects in Architectural Value - Answers -✔✔ Personality
Experiences
Time Period
Judgement/Intention
Things Architecture Provide - Answers -✔✔ Shelter
Climate control
Usefulness
Beauty
Meaning
Hugo Haering's Global Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Maximize value of each individual
2. Nature is man's great teacher
Hugo Haering's Architectural Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Design is intuitive, inspired by
nature and music
2. Beauty is relative
3. Every building is unique
4. Function is primary determinant of architecture
5. Expression related to function
6. Believed buildings should fit like second skin
7. Function first, then form will follow
Mies Van Der Rohe's global values - Answers -✔✔ 1. society depends on institutions,
business is very important
2. Collective thought and past knowledge of mankind is our teacher
Mies Van Der Rohe's Architectural Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Design is a rational
process; order, specific
2. Beauty is universal (standard)
3. Architecture should be an expression of its time
4. Construction and materials are primary; structure is a determinant
5. Buildings aren't unique to one another, all based of one another
6. Less is more
,Albert Speer's Global Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Society depends on its charismatic,
visionary leaders
2. Fate is a determinant
Albert Speer's Architectural Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Design is a tool for
communicating ideas
2. Each building type has its own rules and criteria
3. Richness, wonder and drama = good architecture
4. Immortal
5. Classical times are teachers
Vitruvian Triad - Answers -✔✔ Delight (form)
Firmness (physical considerations)
Commodity (human factors)
you get delight from firmness and make it a commodity
Elements of Form - Answers -✔✔ Balance
Proportion
Symmetry
Scale
Shape
Space
Texture
Light
Color
Rhythm
Line
Material
BP, SSSS, TLC, RLM
Reasons for using geometry/numbers - Answers -✔✔ mysticism
prestige
structural sense
iconic
intellectual puzzles
Ways Architecture Impacts Environment - Answers -✔✔ energy consumption
land consumption
resource consumption
waste
toxicity
Messages architecture portrays through form - Answers -✔✔ order
complexity
, technique
Areas of Planning - Answers -✔✔ transportation
infrastructure
land use
social service
environmental
Flaws of city planning - Answers -✔✔ impervious cover
inefficient drainage system
subsidence
Forces of structure - Answers -✔✔ tension
compression
bending
shearing
Materials - Answers -✔✔ wood
steel
brick
stone
concrete
reinforced concrete
Stages of Construction - Answers -✔✔ site work
foundation
erect structural system
enclosure
partitions
systems
finishes
Ways to respond to the sun - Answers -✔✔ massing
fenestration
solar shading
Reasons to designate space - Answers -✔✔ practicality
embedding cultural norms
claiming space
efficiency+convenience
placement of machines
Aspects of humanism - Answers -✔✔ interests+values
dignity+worth of mankind
self-realization
Complete Solutions Current
Update (A+ Pass)
Reasons to learn architecture - Answers -✔✔ Familiarize
Increase Awareness
Become advocate
Effects in Architectural Value - Answers -✔✔ Personality
Experiences
Time Period
Judgement/Intention
Things Architecture Provide - Answers -✔✔ Shelter
Climate control
Usefulness
Beauty
Meaning
Hugo Haering's Global Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Maximize value of each individual
2. Nature is man's great teacher
Hugo Haering's Architectural Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Design is intuitive, inspired by
nature and music
2. Beauty is relative
3. Every building is unique
4. Function is primary determinant of architecture
5. Expression related to function
6. Believed buildings should fit like second skin
7. Function first, then form will follow
Mies Van Der Rohe's global values - Answers -✔✔ 1. society depends on institutions,
business is very important
2. Collective thought and past knowledge of mankind is our teacher
Mies Van Der Rohe's Architectural Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Design is a rational
process; order, specific
2. Beauty is universal (standard)
3. Architecture should be an expression of its time
4. Construction and materials are primary; structure is a determinant
5. Buildings aren't unique to one another, all based of one another
6. Less is more
,Albert Speer's Global Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Society depends on its charismatic,
visionary leaders
2. Fate is a determinant
Albert Speer's Architectural Values - Answers -✔✔ 1. Design is a tool for
communicating ideas
2. Each building type has its own rules and criteria
3. Richness, wonder and drama = good architecture
4. Immortal
5. Classical times are teachers
Vitruvian Triad - Answers -✔✔ Delight (form)
Firmness (physical considerations)
Commodity (human factors)
you get delight from firmness and make it a commodity
Elements of Form - Answers -✔✔ Balance
Proportion
Symmetry
Scale
Shape
Space
Texture
Light
Color
Rhythm
Line
Material
BP, SSSS, TLC, RLM
Reasons for using geometry/numbers - Answers -✔✔ mysticism
prestige
structural sense
iconic
intellectual puzzles
Ways Architecture Impacts Environment - Answers -✔✔ energy consumption
land consumption
resource consumption
waste
toxicity
Messages architecture portrays through form - Answers -✔✔ order
complexity
, technique
Areas of Planning - Answers -✔✔ transportation
infrastructure
land use
social service
environmental
Flaws of city planning - Answers -✔✔ impervious cover
inefficient drainage system
subsidence
Forces of structure - Answers -✔✔ tension
compression
bending
shearing
Materials - Answers -✔✔ wood
steel
brick
stone
concrete
reinforced concrete
Stages of Construction - Answers -✔✔ site work
foundation
erect structural system
enclosure
partitions
systems
finishes
Ways to respond to the sun - Answers -✔✔ massing
fenestration
solar shading
Reasons to designate space - Answers -✔✔ practicality
embedding cultural norms
claiming space
efficiency+convenience
placement of machines
Aspects of humanism - Answers -✔✔ interests+values
dignity+worth of mankind
self-realization
