Mid-Term Exam

A  None of these

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

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

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

A  The micro climate cooling effect of water as a material. So visitors could touch the water, creating a personal influence to the piece.

B  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.

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  None of these

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

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

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

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

A  Baroque and Renaissance

B  The City Beautiful and Beaux Arts

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  Public interest and environmental justice in landscape architecture.

B  None of these

C  Academic research on green infrastructure.

D  Landscape for play for inner city families.

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  None of these

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

A  None of these

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

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

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

A  Domestic residences

B  For spiritual ceremonies

C  All of these

D  Rites and political meetings

A  Ephemeral or organic materials

B  Quarried local Travertine

C  Manufactured plastics

D  Concrete with exposed rebar

A  A welcoming civic front yard

B  A flexible and accommodating event venue

C  All of these

D  A model for sustainability and resilience

A  All of these

B  To be interpreted

C  To be connected

D  To live with dignity 

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 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.

B  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.

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  None of these

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.

A  The Ward

B  The Camp

C  The District

D  The Village

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

B  Designs utilizing artificial plants for low maintenance. 

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  Designed gardens based on Modern Art

C  Always used imported landscape materials

D  Disliked straight lines

A  Japanese Architecture

B  All of these

C  Harmony between man and nature

D  Organic philosophy

A  A blurred distinction between interior and exterior terrain.

B  Structures built around a central chimney.

C  All of these.

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

A  The Theodore Payne Foundation, Urban Ecology in cities

B  The Theodore Payne Foundation, California Native Plants

C  Urban Ecology in cities, California Native Plants

D  None of these

A  Ansel Adams

B  John Muir

C  Aldo Leopold

D  Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  To build every landscape detail with Corten Steel. 

A  Rockefeller Center

B  Radio City Music Hall

C  Chrysler Building

D  All of these

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 structure of the house is externalized.

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

D  None of these

A  Greene and Greene

B  The Olmsted Brothers

C  Eckbo and Kiley

D  Rose and Rose

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  Creating a series of terraced garden rooms and vistas.
A careful selection of plants, materials and ornament; defining each room’s character and use.

C  None of these

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

A  The informal and naturalistic look to her gardens.

B  Utilizing the concept of drifts of planting. 

C  A painterly approach to garden planting.

D  All of these.

A  Central Park, New York City

B  The World’s Fair, New York 

C  The Mall, Washington, D.C.

D  The Great White City, Chicago 

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

B  None of these

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

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

D  Create a Democratic institution by virtue of mixing classes.

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

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

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

D  An urban plaza surrounded by homes of indigenous people.

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

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

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

D  None of these

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

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

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

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

A  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.

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.
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.

D  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.

A  Air

B  Light

C  Concrete

D  Wood

A  Building

B  Collage

C  Writing

D  Drawing

A  None of these

B  By building sculpture in the landscape.

C  Through Choreography and Dance.

D  Through painting the Northern California landscape.

A  Arranged in a cross pattern in the desert.

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

C  Pierced with small holes representing stars of four constellations. 

D  All of these