ARC 141: Architectural Theory Final Exam Questions
with Correct Answers
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Correct Answer-A book
written by Robert Venturi. He suggests that you shouldn't limit yourself
and you should combine materials.
Less is a bore Correct Answer-coined by Robert Venturi in reaction to
Mies van der Rohe's statement "less is more"; captured Venturi's
aesthetic - that architecture should be inspired by buildings of the past
and pair elements together in new ways
Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s
Correct Answer-Author: Leo Ou-fan Lee
Combination of Chinese and Western cultural architecture
Shanghai is known as the Paris of Asia; the Bund highlights historical,
geographic plurality and contradictory experiences
A Theory of Ecological Design Correct Answer-Ken Yeang - Need for
establishing the different properties of ecological design
Inclusive
Comprehensive
Open
Buildings are much like living organisms -using energy and materials
Producing output into environment
,7 Ways to Transform Studio Culture & Bring It into the 21st Century
Correct Answer-Lori Brown and Joseph Godlewski
Agency
Balance
Flexibility
Diversity
Interactivity
Interdiscplinarity
Sustainability
Black Bodies, White Cities: Le Corbusier in Harlem Correct Answer-Le
Corbusier visited Harlem in 1935
He linked Harlem's black identity and figures like Louis Armstrong to
ideas of being primitive (low, poor), which influenced modern ideas in a
complicated way.
Le Corbusier's Radiant City idea used geography and racial differences
to create specific borders for the city
Le Corbusier's modernism is dialectical and has racial tension
The Language of Postmodern Architecture Correct Answer-Author:
Charles Jencks (1977)
Argument took aim at the defunct Pruitt-Igoe housing Project in St.
Louis
"Modern Architecture" died in St Louis Missouri in the Infamous Pruitt
Igoe scheme
, Postmodernists underscored the shortcomings, failed promise of the
modern movement
Stylistic failure and poor design of modern architecture
An Architecture of Change Correct Answer-Jose L. S. Gamez and Susan
Rogers (2008)
advocated and argued that "voice from the margins" is calling for an
architecture of change
Advocates for participatory, community-based design
Creating helpful buildings doesn't mean the design has to be less
beautiful or creative.
Architecture can DO good by societal standards
Who has access to the Idea of Architecture?
My Architectural Philosophy? Correct Answer-(AA) Alejandro Aravena
TED Talk
3-s menace
Scale
Speed
Scarcity
Force of self construction, the force of common sense, and the force of
nature
with Correct Answers
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Correct Answer-A book
written by Robert Venturi. He suggests that you shouldn't limit yourself
and you should combine materials.
Less is a bore Correct Answer-coined by Robert Venturi in reaction to
Mies van der Rohe's statement "less is more"; captured Venturi's
aesthetic - that architecture should be inspired by buildings of the past
and pair elements together in new ways
Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s
Correct Answer-Author: Leo Ou-fan Lee
Combination of Chinese and Western cultural architecture
Shanghai is known as the Paris of Asia; the Bund highlights historical,
geographic plurality and contradictory experiences
A Theory of Ecological Design Correct Answer-Ken Yeang - Need for
establishing the different properties of ecological design
Inclusive
Comprehensive
Open
Buildings are much like living organisms -using energy and materials
Producing output into environment
,7 Ways to Transform Studio Culture & Bring It into the 21st Century
Correct Answer-Lori Brown and Joseph Godlewski
Agency
Balance
Flexibility
Diversity
Interactivity
Interdiscplinarity
Sustainability
Black Bodies, White Cities: Le Corbusier in Harlem Correct Answer-Le
Corbusier visited Harlem in 1935
He linked Harlem's black identity and figures like Louis Armstrong to
ideas of being primitive (low, poor), which influenced modern ideas in a
complicated way.
Le Corbusier's Radiant City idea used geography and racial differences
to create specific borders for the city
Le Corbusier's modernism is dialectical and has racial tension
The Language of Postmodern Architecture Correct Answer-Author:
Charles Jencks (1977)
Argument took aim at the defunct Pruitt-Igoe housing Project in St.
Louis
"Modern Architecture" died in St Louis Missouri in the Infamous Pruitt
Igoe scheme
, Postmodernists underscored the shortcomings, failed promise of the
modern movement
Stylistic failure and poor design of modern architecture
An Architecture of Change Correct Answer-Jose L. S. Gamez and Susan
Rogers (2008)
advocated and argued that "voice from the margins" is calling for an
architecture of change
Advocates for participatory, community-based design
Creating helpful buildings doesn't mean the design has to be less
beautiful or creative.
Architecture can DO good by societal standards
Who has access to the Idea of Architecture?
My Architectural Philosophy? Correct Answer-(AA) Alejandro Aravena
TED Talk
3-s menace
Scale
Speed
Scarcity
Force of self construction, the force of common sense, and the force of
nature
