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History of Building/Construction Exam 1with verified solutions
Client, Architect and Builders - correct answer ✔✔In the creation of architecture, the fundamental triad
is
Mount Angel Abbey Library - correct answer ✔✔What is this building?
Minnesota State Capital - correct answer ✔✔What is this building?
Louis I. Kahn - correct answer ✔✔What modern, American architect strikingly achieved psychological
function on an abstract level in the Jonus Salk Institute for Biological Studies?
Crown Hall - correct answer ✔✔What is the name of this building?
Social and Circulatory - correct answer ✔✔What function did Charles Garnier understand when he
design the Paris Opera House?
Utility, Firmness and Beauty - correct answer ✔✔What are the three basic elements of architecture that
Vitruvius stated were essential?
Leaning Tower of Pisa - correct answer ✔✔What is the name of this building?
Different allowable soil bearing pressures under the tower - correct answer ✔✔What caused the Tower
of Pisa to lean?
Shapero Hall of Pharmacy, Detroit - correct answer ✔✔What is the name of this building and where is it
located?
, oldest architecture - correct answer ✔✔Alonquian longhouse and wigwam dwelling types are examples
of?
Corinthian Column - correct answer ✔✔What order is this column?
Adobe - correct answer ✔✔______________ is made by mixing clay with water and perhaps grass and
straw to form blocks that are dried or baked
a =1 & b = 1.61804 (vice-versa)
proportional relationship believed to be perfect - correct answer ✔✔The Golden Mean is
Modulor
Unite d'Habitation - correct answer ✔✔Architect, Le Corbusier developed a design based on the
Fibonacci series, he called it _______ What is an example for this type of design?
Edgar Kaufmann Residence - correct answer ✔✔What is this building?
Ornament - correct answer ✔✔What does this building express?
figure-to-ground relationship - correct answer ✔✔What does this image represent?
Mud brick walls on dry stone foundations - correct answer ✔✔Archaeologists found 9000 year old ruins
indicating Mesopotamians were builders. What were the houses built of?
8 meters - correct answer ✔✔Mesopotamian city walls were ____ meters tall
False - correct answer ✔✔Mesopotamian city buildings had many windows. True or False?
Wood beams with woven reeds covered in dried mud with tar on it - correct answer ✔✔What was the
roof structure made of in Mesopotamian buildings?
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