ARC 308 Test #1 Multiple Choice Questions And Answers
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ARC 308 Test #1 Multiple Choice Questions And Answers
In the lecture on "Sensual/Visual Form" we discussed the different motives for creating beauty in the buildings we looked at. Which of the following best matches motive and building for some of these examples? - Answer-Answer: The motive for ...
In the lecture on "Sensual/Visual Form" we discussed the different motives for creating
beauty in the buildings we looked at. Which of the following best matches motive and
building for some of these examples? - Answer-Answer: The motive for the Taj Mahal
was "grief"- the mourning for a beloved wife who died young. The motive for the Sydney
Opera House was "Nationalism"- the expression of pride in a place and culture.
/.Which of the following clearly have forms based in Nature/Biology/Organisms (even
though they may not have been shown in the lecture on that topic)? - Answer-Answer:
Foam House, Chapel at Ronchamps, "Dipoli" student union
/.The U.S. Pavilion at EXPO in Montreal was noted in the lecture on
Numbers/Mathematics/Geometry as an example of: - Answer-Answer: Geometry used
to accomplish significant structure efficiencies in an innovative way OR its spherical
form made up of many linear pieces assembles in polygonal modules achieves notable
structural feats using pure geometries.
/.We looked at several buildings in this segment on Form by Le Corbusier. Which of the
following is NOT an accurate reflection of comments made on his work in class? -
Answer-Answer: Le Corbusier's dormitory at Bryn Mawr College is a good example of
an intellectual expression of order w three square volumes interlocked at their corners.
(Was designed by Louis I. Kahn)
/.Which of the following best describes sources of form for St. Ignatius Chapter as
described in the last lecture of this segment? - Answer-Answer: Its combination of
rectilinear and fluid forms indicate origins of form both in mathematics/geometry and
nature/biology/organisms.
/.In the chapter on "Rhythm in Architecture" Rasmussen used, as one of his examples,
the Glass Show Frank Lloyd Wright designed in San Francisco (which has some
elements in common with the Guggenheim Museum by Wright that we looked at in
class). Which of the following best describes him observations? - Answer-Answer: The
space is more geometric than rhythmic. Though composed of rounded and curving
forms all related to each other, there is no natural rhythm flowing through them.
/.In his chapter on "Daylight on Architecture" Rasmussen refers to the light quality in the
Chapel at Ronchamps by Le Corbusier which was also shown in class. Which of the
following describes the light quality of that buildings interior? - Answer-Answer: Daylight
is introduced in numerous interesting ways creating an overall effect of shadowed,
dimness through indirect lighting. For example, a very thick wall pierced by many
openings of unequal sizes casts reflected light into the dim-lit room
, /.In his chapter on "Contrasting Effects of Solids and Cavities" Rasmussen discussed
two architects whose work we looked at in class- Borromini, whose work is Baroque,
and Frank Lloyd Wright, whose work is modern. What is the point he makes in
comparing Frank Lloyd Wright's work to that of Borromini and other Baroque architects?
- Answer-Answer: Many of Wright's buildings have Baroque traits. He works with
contrasting forms, curves which change from concave to convex, and interpenetrating
architectural volumes
/.In class we discussed the villas of Andrew Palladio- especially the Villa Rotunda.
Rasmussen makes a number of references to Palladio's work but devotes several
pages in particular to his Villa Foscari of which Rasmussen observes: - Answer-Similar
characteristics as those noted in class- well proportioned rooms which all relate to each
other and to the whole in an integral way.
/.In his chapter of "hearing Architecture" Rasmussen observes which of the following
about the relationship between the church design and church music? - Answer-Answer:
every large church interior has its own voice, its special possibilities, which can produce
and accommodate different types of music.
/.Both in class and in Rasmussen's book Experiencing Architecture, the chapel at
Ronchamps was noted as: - Answer-Answer: an example of skillful, emotional, and
dramatic use of light.
/.The golden section was discussed both in the chapter on "scale and proportion" in
Experiencing Architecture and in the lecture on "visual/sensual form". Which of the
following best represents a conclusion that can be drawn from those sources? -
Answer-Answer: the golden section was used in the Renaissance by architects like
leonardo da vinci and in modern times by architects like le corbusier.
/.In the lecture on "numbers/mathematics/geometry" five motives were described for
employing pure geometrics in buildings. Which of the following does not describe a
motive noted in that lecture? - Answer-Motives of natural emulation as in Antonio
Gaudi's airports
(Buildings that were listed: Buckminister Fuller's geodesic dome, Gunnar Asplund's
library, Peter Eisenman's houses"
/.In the lecture on "systems and order" the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth was noted
as the building that - Answer-Used a "system" consisted of tube of space created by
vaults
/.In the third class of the six on FORM, which of the following was noted as an
explanation for what we mean when we refer to "the architecture of a movie plot" "the
architecture of a political campaign" or "the architecture of a certain corporate
structure"? - Answer-Architecture is a discipline which inherently requires underlying
structure and orders. These are references to underlying systems or strategies in other
disciplines
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