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Building Construction Systems test 1questions well answered to pass
_______________________________ govern these seven issues:
1.What can be built where and next to what -"building uses."
2. The footprint -the buildable area.
3. Setbacks from streets, lot line and other buildings.
4. Parking requirements.
5. FAR -how large it may be; percentage of the lot.
6. Height -how tall.
7. Types of construction -building materials.
a. zoning map
b. zoning ordinances - correct answer ✔✔b
Construction and construing are intrinsically linked
T/F - correct answer ✔✔true
The joint is the place where both ____________________________ of architecture takes place.... -
Marco Franscari - correct answer ✔✔Construction and constructing
the latin root of the word "art" is
a. the beam
b. the joint
c. the beauty - correct answer ✔✔b
,"Art is the place where ____________ and _______________ of architecture takes place."
a. building and meaning
b. structure and form
c. beauty and danger - correct answer ✔✔a
We design and build with __________________ to give meaning.
a. Intention
b. Delight
c. Firmness - correct answer ✔✔a
Utilitas = functionality = ____________
a. delight
b. commodity
c.firmness - correct answer ✔✔b
Firmitas = strength = _____________
a. delight
b. commodity
c.firmness - correct answer ✔✔c
venustas = beauty = _____________
a. delight
b. commodity
c.firmness - correct answer ✔✔a
Who wrote the Ten books on Architecture?
,a. Marcus Vitruvius
b. Mies Van Der Rohe
c. Philip Johnson
d. Frank Lloyd Wright - correct answer ✔✔a
Architecture is the joining of
a. metaphor, tectonics, and materials
b. simplicity, assembly, and wisdom
c. commodity, firmness, and delight - correct answer ✔✔c
As the circumstances of the work change, our interests expand.
T/F - correct answer ✔✔true
We seek to explore the full richness and diversity of architectural practice, understanding it as a critical
cultural act that engages our most fundamental desires and aspirations.
T/F - correct answer ✔✔true
PatkauArchitects, Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia,1988sustainability:
We embrace singular definitions of architecture: as art, as technology, as social service, as environmental
agent, as political statement.
T/F - correct answer ✔✔False; We refuse singular definitions of architecture: as art, as technology, as
social service, as environmental agent, as political statement.
PatkauArchitects, Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia,1988sustainability:
We embrace all these definitions, together, as part of the rich, complex and vital discipline that we
believe architecture to be.
, T/F - correct answer ✔✔true
PatkauArchitects, Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia,1988sustainability:
Patkau Architects relied on ___________________ to make a connection to the community i.e. fish
section
a. tectonics
b. metaphor
c. engineered wood construction - correct answer ✔✔b
PatkauArchitects, Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia,1988sustainability:
Patkau Architects relied on: ___________________
meaning derived from the boat references
a. tectonics
b. culture
c. engineered wood construction - correct answer ✔✔a
PatkauArchitects, Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia,1988sustainability:
Patkau Architects relied on: heavy timber construction, which is common to the Salish Nation, translated
to _____________________.
a. tectonics
b. metaphor
c. engineered wood construction - correct answer ✔✔c
PatkauArchitects, Seabird Island School, Agassiz, British Columbia,1988sustainability:
Patkau Architects relied on:
he use of the building as a ____________, as well as, for educational purposes. Gym and kitchen are
used by community, connected to outdoor space.
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