History II - Modern Landscapes » Spring 2023 » Mid-Term Exam

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Question #1
Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” have which of the following designed characteristics?
A.   All of these
B.   Pierced with small holes representing stars of four constellations. 
C.   Align with the sunrise and sunset on summer and winter solstices.
D.   Arranged in a cross pattern in the desert.
Question #2
How did Lawrence Halprin’s wife Anna influence his designs and work? 
A.   By building sculpture in the landscape.
B.   Through Choreography and Dance.
C.   None of these
D.   Through painting the Northern California landscape.
Question #3
Maya Lin's process of design initially begins with what creative act?
A.   Drawing
B.   Collage
C.   Building
D.   Writing
Question #4
James Turrell designs with what dominant medium in his artwork?
A.   Air
B.   Concrete
C.   Light
D.   Wood
Question #5
Which statement is true on how immigration was related to building and establishing urban parks in the American 19th century?
A.   Immigrants had very little to do with building cities and urban parks in 19th century America. They lived in slums, squatted on and lived off the land. 20,000 workers - Yankee engineers, Irish laborers, German gardeners, and native-born stonecutters - reshaped the site's topography to create urban park pastoral landscapes.
B.   None of these
C.   Central Park was conceived as the antidote—the one-stop shop to solve all the problems New Yorkers blamed on immigrants. 20,000 workers - Yankee engineers, Irish laborers, German gardeners, and native-born stonecutters - reshaped the site's topography to create urban park pastoral landscapes.
D.   Central Park was conceived as the antidote—the one-stop shop to solve all the problems New Yorkers blamed on immigrants. Immigrants had very little to do with building cities and urban parks in 19th century America. They lived in slums, squatted on and lived off the land.
Question #6
What is the definition of bi-lateral symmetry in landscape design?
A.   Designing both sides differently on either side of a central axis.
B.   Creating a focal point at the end of a central axis.
C.   Creating a mirror image on either side along a central axis.
D.   Creating informal curved paths with an element of surprise at the terminus. 
Question #7
The Colonnades along each side of the lawn at the University of Virginia designed by Thomas Jefferson, served which following design purpose(s)?
A.   None of these
B.   Designed to keep students from getting on to the lawn Used for sheltered circulation and a porch.
C.   Unifying architectural elements. Designed to keep students from getting on to the lawn
D.   Unifying architectural elements. Used for sheltered circulation and a porch.
Question #8
Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito, former home of Ancestral Puebloans, manifests the following physical characteristics? 
A.   A large 'D'-Shaped building with 800 circular, underground shelters and common-use kivas.
B.   An urban plaza surrounded by homes of indigenous people.
C.   A series of stacked pueblo structures located in Taos, New Mexico.
D.   A high-rise commune located in the high desert southwest, New Mexico.
Question #9
What were Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s main design idea(s) when designing the Greensward Plan for Central Park competition?
A.   To separate vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
B.   Create a Democratic institution by virtue of mixing classes.
C.   All of these.
D.   The park was to be a unified work of landscape art.
Question #10
Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace in Boston became a valued park system for which of the following reasons?
A.   It serves as a backyard for city residents. It connects people to nature.
B.   It serves as a backyard for city residents. It contains a series of separate park spaces – one for each neighborhood.
C.   None of these
D.   It contains a series of separate park spaces – one for each neighborhood. It connects people to nature.
Question #11
What place was designed to test the design principles of the City Beautiful Movement?
A.   The World's Fair, New York 
B.   Central Park, New York City
C.   The Great White City, Chicago 
D.   The Mall, Washington, D.C.
Question #12
Gertrude Jekyll’s Cottage Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Style were characterized by:
A.   A painterly approach to garden planting.
B.   All of these.
C.   Utilizing the concept of drifts of planting. 
D.   The informal and naturalistic look to her gardens.
Question #13
What were the main design principle(s) that Beatrix Farrand used in designing Dumbarton Oaks?
A.   Designing a series of graded flat sites, each containing an arbor and public lawn. A careful selection of plants, materials and ornament; defining each room's character and use.
B.   None of these
C.   Creating a series of terraced garden rooms and vistas. A careful selection of plants, materials and ornament; defining each room's character and use.
D.   Creating a series of terraced garden rooms and vistas. Designing a series of graded flat sites, each containing an arbor and public lawn.
Question #14
What architect team popularized the Arts and Crafts Style in Southern California?
A.   Eckbo and Kiley
B.   Rose and Rose
C.   The Olmsted Brothers
D.   Greene and Greene
Question #15
What are the key characteristic(s) of the “Craftsman Style” in Arts and Crafts Architecture?
A.   The whole building was entirely built of wood. The structure of the house is externalized.
B.   The visual importance of the aesthetic nature of joints. The whole building was entirely built of wood.
C.   The visual importance of the aesthetic nature of joints. The structure of the house is externalized.
D.   None of these
Question #16
Which building(s) in New York City reflect the Art Deco Style?
A.   Chrysler Building
B.   All of these
C.   Rockefeller Center
D.   Radio City Music Hall
Question #17
Landscape architect Andrea Cochran is known for promoting what main aspect in her work?
A.   To build every landscape detail with Corten Steel. 
B.   To solely work alone, never with architects or teams.
C.   To forge new relationships with the site's surroundings.
D.   To avoid detail and craft in her landscape project work. 
Question #18
What idea(s) did Aldo Leopold write about in the Sand County Almanac? 
A.   The desert ecoregion as places containing layered sand dunes and oasis environments.
B.   The Land Ethic in enlarging boundaries of the natural community, to include aspects of the land, collectively.
C.   Suburban sprawl development of communities on rural or abandoned sites.
D.   The layering of design aspects to determine the best places for design interventions on sites.
Question #19
Which photographer documented “Wild America” as a naturalist/activist and published writings and photographs as a member of the Sierra Club?
A.   Aldo Leopold
B.   John Muir
C.   Ansel Adams
D.   Henry David Thoreau
Question #20
What was Theodore Payne’s most noteworthy accomplishment and interest?
A.   The Theodore Payne Foundation, California Native Plants
B.   The Theodore Payne Foundation, Urban Ecology in cities
C.   None of these
D.   Urban Ecology in cities, California Native Plants
Question #21
What are the design principle(s) characterized by the Prairie School in their Architecture?
A.   Low, horizontal lines to blend with the flat landscape.
B.   All of these.
C.   Structures built around a central chimney.
D.   A blurred distinction between interior and exterior terrain.
Question #22
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater design was inspired by which design influence(s)?
A.   All of these
B.   Harmony between man and nature
C.   Japanese Architecture
D.   Organic philosophy
Question #23
What physical attribute(s) characterized Jens Jensen’s work?
A.   Used Tropical plants in every project
B.   Disliked straight lines
C.   Designed gardens based on Modern Art
D.   Always used imported landscape materials
Question #24
What was a key principle for Piet Oudolf’s planting design philosophy? 
A.   Garden designs for people of specific socio-economic groups. 
B.   Plants chosen as much for their structure as flower color.
C.   Designs utilizing artificial plants for low maintenance. 
D.   Formal rows of plants in his garden designs.
Question #25
What basic design unit was used to organize James Oglethorpe’s plan for Savannah Georgia?
A.   The Village
B.   The District
C.   The Camp
D.   The Ward
Question #26
What is the legal definition of Eminent Domain?
A.   None of these
B.   A federal law that provides funding for low income housing in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
C.   The power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use.
D.   Part of the 5th Amendment, which provides for no compensation to private land owners when the government seizes their property.
Question #27
Emma Marris describes in her book "Rambunctious Garden" what thought(s) on nature and current ecosystems?
A.   Marris believes that the modern conservation movement is in need of a paradigm shift. She rejects the implicit idea of purity that lies at the foundation of the wilderness ethic. Marris believes that pristine and untouched wilderness exists in our own backyrads and everywhere in the 21st Century.
B.   None of these
C.   Marris believes that the modern conservation movement is in need of a paradigm shift. She rejects the implicit idea of purity that lies at the foundation of the wilderness ethic. Marris argues that there are now no ecosystems on Earth that have not been affected by us in some way.
D.   Marris believes that pristine and untouched wilderness exists in our own backyrads and everywhere in the 21st Century. Marris argues that there are now no ecosystems on Earth that have not been affected by us in some way.
Question #28
Humphry Repton applied picturesque theory to the practice of landscape design.  How did Repton compose his landscapes?
A.   Repton designed landscapes to be composed like landscape paintings with a foreground, a middle ground and a background.
B.   Repton concentrated on synthetic materials in every detail as a foundation of the work.
C.   Repton embraced a systematic approach by designing resilient landscapes.
D.   Repton was a formal designer, celebrating structure over the whimsical.
Question #29
What were the main/basic proposition(s) Kofi Boone outlined in his piece Black Landscapes Matter?
A.   To live with dignity 
B.   All of these
C.   To be connected
D.   To be interpreted
Question #30
In Sasaki Associates’ redesign of the Boston City Hall Plaza, what were the design objectives?
A.   All of these
B.   A flexible and accommodating event venue
C.   A welcoming civic front yard
D.   A model for sustainability and resilience
Question #31
What types of materials does Andy Goldsworthy use in his art?
A.   Manufactured plastics
B.   Concrete with exposed rebar
C.   Ephemeral or organic materials
D.   Quarried local Travertine
Question #32
The Ancestral Puebloans built circular underground rooms called Kivas for what purposes?
A.   Rites and political meetings
B.   For spiritual ceremonies
C.   Domestic residences
D.   All of these
Question #33
What was a purpose of the ha-ha wall in landscape architecture design?
A.   The ha-ha wall was a wall constructed with brightly colored and reflective materials.
B.   Ha-ha walls were used to separate the working farm from the pleasure grounds and keep farm animals contained, without a vertical, visual obstruction.
C.   Ha-ha walls were constructed as whimsical structures to make users smile.
D.   None of these
Question #34
What was the main design idea behind Michael Heizer's work Double Negative?
A.   The work essentially consists of what is not there, what has been displaced, yet it is still a sculpture.
B.   Double Negative is a series of glass mirrors in the desert reflecting a mirror image of the piece.
C.   The land art piece Double Negative communicates a negative idea toward art in the landscape.
D.   None of these
Question #35
Kofe Boone, a professor at NC State University, has spent much of his professional career focusing on what subject?
A.   Landscape for play for inner city families.
B.   Academic research on green infrastructure.
C.   None of these
D.   Public interest and environmental justice in landscape architecture.
Question #36
What was Thomas Jefferson’s overall philosophy when designing the University of Virginia?
A.   Sustainable campus design
B.   Agrarian Democracy
C.   Planning for inclusive social interaction
D.   Colonial American values
Question #37
Land Art was an outgrowth of which architectural movement(s)?
A.   Modernism and Post-Modernism
B.   Conceptualism and Minimalism
C.   Baroque and Renaissance
D.   The City Beautiful and Beaux Arts
Question #38
What was a value-added outcome that resulted from Fredrick Law Olmsted’s choice to replant a commercial timber forest at the Biltmore Estate?
A.   The creation of tree shade and a decrease in the heat island effect on the property.
B.   Increased income for the Vanderbilt’s as a result of the increase in timber production.
C.   The establishment of the first forestry education program in the United States.
D.   There was an increased supply of timber to build an additional estate on the grounds.
Question #39
Why did Maya Lin choose water to use as a material in her design for the Civil Rights Memorial?
A.   She got her inspiration from a passage in Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech. The micro climate cooling effect of water as a material.
B.   The micro climate cooling effect of water as a material. So visitors could touch the water, creating a personal influence to the piece.
C.   None of these
D.   She got her inspiration from a passage in Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech. So visitors could touch the water, creating a personal influence to the piece.
Question #40
What was the purpose(s) of Christo and Jeanne Claude’s land art?
A.   None of these
B.   To create works of art for joy and beauty. To create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes
C.   To create works of art for joy and beauty. To place fabric on the land to measure wind velocity
D.   To place fabric on the land to measure wind velocity. To create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes

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