Mid-Term Exam

A  To create works of art for joy and beauty. To create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes

B  To create works of art for joy and beauty. To place fabric on the land to measure wind velocity

C  None of these

D  To place fabric on the land to measure wind velocity. To create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes

A  None of these

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  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.

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.

A  There was an increased supply of timber to build an additional estate on the grounds.

B  The creation of tree shade and a decrease in the heat island effect on the property.

C  The establishment of the first forestry education program in the United States.

D  Increased income for the Vanderbilt’s as a result of the increase in timber production.

A  The City Beautiful and Beaux Arts

B  Baroque and Renaissance

C  Modernism and Post-Modernism

D  Conceptualism and Minimalism

A  Sustainable campus design

B  Colonial American values

C  Agrarian Democracy

D  Planning for inclusive social interaction

A  Landscape for play for inner city families.

B  None of these

C  Public interest and environmental justice in landscape architecture.

D  Academic research on green infrastructure.

A  The work essentially consists of what is not there, what has been displaced, yet it is still a sculpture.

B  None of these

C  Double Negative is a series of glass mirrors in the desert reflecting a mirror image of the piece.

D  The land art piece Double Negative communicates a negative idea toward art in the landscape.

A  None of these

B  The ha-ha wall was a wall constructed with brightly colored and reflective materials.

C  Ha-ha walls were constructed as whimsical structures to make users smile.

D  Ha-ha walls were used to separate the working farm from the pleasure grounds and keep farm animals contained, without a vertical, visual obstruction.

A  Domestic residences

B  All of these

C  For spiritual ceremonies

D  Rites and political meetings

A  Concrete with exposed rebar

B  Manufactured plastics

C  Ephemeral or organic materials

D  Quarried local Travertine

A  A model for sustainability and resilience

B  All of these

C  A flexible and accommodating event venue

D  A welcoming civic front yard

A  To live with dignity 

B  To be connected

C  To be interpreted

D  All of these

A  Repton designed landscapes to be composed like landscape paintings with a foreground, a middle ground and a background.

B  Repton was a formal designer, celebrating structure over the whimsical.

C  Repton embraced a systematic approach by designing resilient landscapes.

D  Repton concentrated on synthetic materials in every detail as a foundation of the work.

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 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.

D  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.

A  A federal law that provides funding for low income housing in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

B  None of these

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.

A  The Camp

B  The District

C  The Village

D  The Ward

A  Designs utilizing artificial plants for low maintenance. 

B  Plants chosen as much for their structure as flower color.

C  Formal rows of plants in his garden designs.

D  Garden designs for people of specific socio-economic groups. 

A  Used Tropical plants in every project

B  Disliked straight lines

C  Designed gardens based on Modern Art

D  Always used imported landscape materials

A  Organic philosophy

B  All of these

C  Japanese Architecture

D  Harmony between man and nature

A  Structures built around a central chimney.

B  All of these.

C  Low, horizontal lines to blend with the flat landscape.

D  A blurred distinction between interior and exterior terrain.

A  Urban Ecology in cities, California Native Plants

B  The Theodore Payne Foundation, California Native Plants

C  None of these

D  The Theodore Payne Foundation, Urban Ecology in cities

A  Aldo Leopold

B  John Muir

C  Henry David Thoreau

D  Ansel Adams

A  Suburban sprawl development of communities on rural or abandoned sites.

B  The desert ecoregion as places containing layered sand dunes and oasis environments.

C  The Land Ethic in enlarging boundaries of the natural community, to include aspects of the land, collectively.

D  The layering of design aspects to determine the best places for design interventions on sites.

A  To solely work alone, never with architects or teams.

B  To avoid detail and craft in her landscape project work. 

C  To build every landscape detail with Corten Steel. 

D  To forge new relationships with the site’s surroundings.

A  Rockefeller Center

B  Chrysler Building

C  All of these

D  Radio City Music Hall

A  None of these

B  The visual importance of the aesthetic nature of joints.
The structure of the house is externalized.

C  The whole building was entirely built of wood.
The structure of the house is externalized.

D  The visual importance of the aesthetic nature of joints.
The whole building was entirely built of wood.

A  The Olmsted Brothers

B  Rose and Rose

C  Greene and Greene

D  Eckbo and Kiley

A  Creating a series of terraced garden rooms and vistas.
Designing a series of graded flat sites, each containing an arbor and public lawn.

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  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.

A  All of these.

B  A painterly approach to garden planting.

C  Utilizing the concept of drifts of planting. 

D  The informal and naturalistic look to her gardens.

A  The Mall, Washington, D.C.

B  The World’s Fair, New York 

C  The Great White City, Chicago 

D  Central Park, New York City

A  None of these

B  It serves as a backyard for city residents.
It contains a series of separate park spaces – one for each neighborhood.

C  It serves as a backyard for city residents.
It connects people to nature.

D  It contains a series of separate park spaces – one for each neighborhood.
It connects people to nature.

A  All of these.

B  To separate vehicular and pedestrian circulation.

C  Create a Democratic institution by virtue of mixing classes.

D  The park was to be a unified work of landscape art.

A  A series of stacked pueblo structures located in Taos, New Mexico.

B  An urban plaza surrounded by homes of indigenous people.

C  A high-rise commune located in the high desert southwest, New Mexico.

D  A large ‘D’-Shaped building with 800 circular, underground shelters and common-use kivas.

A  None of these

B  Unifying architectural elements.
Used for sheltered circulation and a porch.

C  Unifying architectural elements.
Designed to keep students from getting on to the lawn

D  Designed to keep students from getting on to the lawn
Used for sheltered circulation and a porch.

A  Designing both sides differently on either side of a central axis.

B  Creating a mirror image on either side along a central axis.

C  Creating informal curved paths with an element of surprise at the terminus. 

D  Creating a focal point at the end of a central axis.

A  None of these

B  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.

C  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.

D  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.

A  Wood

B  Concrete

C  Air

D  Light

A  Collage

B  Drawing

C  Writing

D  Building

A  By building sculpture in the landscape.

B  Through Choreography and Dance.

C  Through painting the Northern California landscape.

D  None of these

A  All of these

B  Arranged in a cross pattern in the desert.

C  Align with the sunrise and sunset on summer and winter solstices.

D  Pierced with small holes representing stars of four constellations.