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ARC 308 Lecture & Book Exam Questions Complete Answers Current Update (A+ Pass) 3 reasons we teach arch - Answers - 1. familiarize w/ phenomena of architecture 2. increase your awareness of environment around you 3. Become an activist Definition of Architecture - Answers - the physical emb...

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ARC 308 Lecture & Book Exam
Questions Complete Answers Current
Update (A+ Pass)
3 reasons we teach arch - Answers -✔✔ 1. familiarize w/ phenomena of architecture
2. increase your awareness of environment around you
3. Become an activist

Definition of Architecture - Answers -✔✔ the physical embodiment of who we are as
individuals and who we are collectively as a culture

physical embodiment - Answers -✔✔ decorating your room pink vs black - gives
impression

can shape who you are - Answers -✔✔ living in pleasant little town vs in busy NYC

Winston Churchill Quote & why - Answers -✔✔ We shape our buildings, thereafter our
buildings shape us

London destroyed after the war, ask parliament to invest in reconstruction =
fundamental for future

impact of architecture is - Answers -✔✔ subliminal, unconscious

Engleman's book incognito says brain activity is ____% unconscious ____% conscious
- Answers -✔✔ 90% 10%
like driving a car and w architecture

T/F hospital room affects how fast a person will recover & class rooms affect how kids
learn - Answers -✔✔ true

learn 20% more

b/c - Answers -✔✔ light helps body produce serotonin ^ neuro transmitters

story of friend & depression

arc is used in - Answers -✔✔ books, drama, film, music, politics

Arc used in books - Answers -✔✔ Harry Potter, Kite Runner
is a subtext of literature
used to describe characters

,arc used in film - Answers -✔✔ Wizard of Oz: contrast, wizard
Gone w the wind: shows who scarlet becomes
Star Wars: arc = special effects, telling plot by physical environment

used in music - Answers -✔✔ i.e Jazz, sound from character of the french quarter

used in politics - Answers -✔✔ Rome: church as the center > becomes holy city
Louix XIV: wanted to become preeminent monarch > Versailles

Bishops Palace - Answers -✔✔ becaome a collection of things around the world, like
Galveston was a collection of things and people

=cosmopolitan amalgamation

reflect ambition of the city

Foam House - Answers -✔✔ rep 60s counterculture, organic, ephemeral
ditching the last culture
alternative lifestyle
new material

The Parthenon - Answers -✔✔ rep sophisticated culture, and everyday life
the culture is what makes it interesting not just the building

St. Peters Basilica - Answers -✔✔ rep renaissance culture, concentration of power
(money, political, etc)

San Antonio Library - Answers -✔✔ ~~~

arc is the ultimate ______ equation - Answers -✔✔ indeterminate: is not just one
solution, can have many different dog houses

determinate (x=12)

what helps find solution to indeterminate problem - Answers -✔✔ values, principals and
prejudices

four things that shape values - Answers -✔✔ 1. people have personalities that incline in
a direction (quiet v outgoing)
2. collective experiences you have (i.e. where live)
3. people are shaped by the time they live in (ideas that exist then)
4. we decide to believe in certain things & exercise own judgement (i.e. political view)

Hugo Hearing - Answers -✔✔ not compelling?, but passionate; active w/ der Ring

, HH believed culture depends - Answers -✔✔ on individuals w/ in that culture ; believe
in democracy and individual expression

also believed _____ is mans great teacher - Answers -✔✔ nature

5 architectural values of Hugo Haering - Answers -✔✔ 1. design is intuitive, emotional
& spiritual practice
2. Beauty is relative not universal
3. Each building should be unique (look @ circumstance)
4. Function is the most important part/driver of design (=fundamental)
5. Expression is 2nd most important (should reinforce/complement the function)

Mis van der Rohe - Answers -✔✔ also in der Ring, friends w HH, man of few words, tall

MvdR believed society depends on its ______, and you can't just rely on _____ -
Answers -✔✔ institutions; the individual

also believed ____ is mans great teacher - Answers -✔✔ collective knowledge (so was
well read)

5 architectural values of Mis - Answers -✔✔ 1. design is a rational process; need logic,
reason, analysis
2. Beauty is universal; an ugly dog is ugly
3. Some arch characteristics can be broadly applied/repeat
"cant make new arc every monday morning"; buildings are not unique
4. Arch should express the spirit of its age; can't go back
5. Building, structure, and construction are the primary inspiration for design

Albert Speer - Answers -✔✔ Hitler's architect then head of munitions > convicted of
war crimes, wealthy fam, good education

belived that society depends on ____ - Answers -✔✔ its leaders

also believes ____ is the great determiner of human destiny and ______ - Answers -
✔✔ fate; you're not in control

5 architectural values of Albert Speer - Answers -✔✔ 1. arch/design is a means to
communicate ideas
2. Building types should have diff arch character/expression depending on role in
soc.(industrial vs public )
3. Wonder, awe and drama are the most important part of architecture (=goal)
4. Arch is a ticket to immortal greatness (like greek roman buildings)
5. Arch is a tool for greatness (egotistical view) ?? diff in tape

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