Landscape Architecture Exam Questions with Latest Update
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PLA - Professional Landscape Architect
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PLA - Professional Landscape Architect
Olmstead had a key role in the establishment of the system of US national Parks. Which park below was one of the two first? - Answer-Yosemite
Many landscape architects consider themselves to be true research-based scientists. - Answer-False
How is landscape architecture different than Art? - ...
Landscape Architecture Exam Questions
with Latest Update
Olmstead had a key role in the establishment of the system of US national Parks. Which
park below was one of the two first? - Answer-Yosemite
Many landscape architects consider themselves to be true research-based scientists. -
Answer-False
How is landscape architecture different than Art? - Answer--Unlike art, it must
incorporate such practical matters as user safety zoning and regulatory criteria and
functional design standards
-It is a profession rather than a calling
-is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms
suitable for human use.
-People must dwell in landscapes
The knowledge, skills, and problem-solving processes of a landscape architect are
applicable in just about any facet of life. - Answer-True
Select all that apply.
Which of the elements below lead to a successful design by a landscape architect? -
Answer-temporal
aesthetics
natural processes
Physical
Design strategies: plans and designs that will be sustainable places where people live,
work, and recreate now and into the future - Answer-landscape architecture land ethic
uses scientific- based knowledge to inform planning and design solutions - Answer-
landscape architecture like engineering
water scarcity, loss of biodiversity, sea level rise - Answer-global issues addressed by
landscape architects
While the design of Central Park was steeped in the naturalistic and Romantic tradition
of Capability Brown and other early English landscape architects, the park was seen by
Olmsted as a means of providing relief from the crowded tenements of New York by
providing healthy passive, outdoor recreation spaces framed in a naturalistic setting. -
Answer-True
Unlike an architecture or engineering degree, a landscape architect can earn a license
without an accredited professional degree> Ture or False? - Answer-False
, Select all items below that pertain to successful academic preparation for landscape
architects: - Answer-implementation (technical) courses
design courses
courses in the arts
courses in natural science
travel
reading
The preservation of a nation's historical and cultural heritage - Answer-Public practice or
service
the MLA is the terminal degree required for this arena of practice - Answer-Academic
Working at the National Trust for Public Lands - Answer-non traditional practice
The redesign of street corridors to enhance pedestrian use and safety, as well as
establishing attractive and vibrant places for shoppers, workers, and visitors in sections
of cities, and the design of plazas, establishing inviting and highly useable public spaces
in new developments. - Answer-Private practitioners
Which of the conditions below determine if you can legally call yourself a landscape
architect. Select all that apply. - Answer-passing the landscape architecture review
exam
completing a paid intenship
graduating from an accredited program
A landscape architecture internship is required before taking the landscape architecture
registration exam. - Answer-True
Which of the typologies below is the BEST example of the aesthetic and functional skill
that landscape architects use to devise solution for modification of terrain? - Answer-golf
courses
About when was the name "landscape architecture" coined? - Answer-mid 19th century
Cultural rules stifle the creative impulses of many designers. - Answer-False
The large water features on the University of Texas at Dallas campus designed by PWP
landscape architects. - Answer-pictorial only
The fountain at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas Texas by Michel Desvigne and
Smith Group/JJR - Answer-Pictorial and immersive
Public involvement and studying district character would be examples of which
approach below? - Answer-Bottom up
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