Landscape Architecture Midterm Exam Questions and Answers
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PLA - Professional Landscape Architect
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the large water features on the UTD campus designed by PWP landscape architects. - Answer-pictorial only
the fountain at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas by Michel Desvigne and SmithGroup/JJR - Answer-pictorial and immersive
the "isms" are a valuable linguistic tool as shorthand for the und...
Landscape Architecture Midterm Exam
Questions and Answers
the large water features on the UTD campus designed by PWP landscape architects. -
Answer-pictorial only
the fountain at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas by Michel Desvigne and
SmithGroup/JJR - Answer-pictorial and immersive
the "isms" are a valuable linguistic tool as shorthand for the understanding and
communication of a design style - Answer-true
"personal strategies can be divided into two general types, both of which are highly
relevant to designers" select the two types below - Answer-perceptual strategies and
design strategies
public involvement and studying district character would be examples of which
approach below? - Answer-bottom up
John Dewey summarizes exerpiential aesthetics as the "enhancement" and
"intensification" of everyday experience - Answer-true
In order for a landscape to be aesthetically pleasing, it must be perceived to enhance
our chances for survival - Answer-habitat theory
A successful transitional space, whether a vestibule in a building or a transitional area in
a landscape - Answer-prospect-refuge theory
this encourages further exploration - Answer-complexity
this enables understanding of the environment - Answer-coherence
this helps an individual to get oriented - Answer-legibility
this holds forth the promise of new information - Answer-mystery
contribute to our long-term viability as a species, and respond to an innate human need
for contact with nature - Answer-poetics of the natural environmeny
are informed by cultural rules and environmental imperatives and are provided
guardrails in the design process by a knowledge of human behavior - Answer-personal
strategies
, part of a rigorous, user friendly, and evidence based design solution , particularly for
special populations - Answer-cultural rules
evolve from our innovators over time, are reflections by a culture of evidence based
design, and are inspirations for creativity - Answer-cultural rules
those aesthetic responses that are innate in us as human animals and are hardwired
into our brains - Answer-environmental psychology
those bases of behavior that are transmitted socially rather than genetically - Answer-
cultural rules
the development of an individual's experience, thinking and taste that evolves into a
personal design aesthetic - Answer-personal strategies
humanmade landscape corollaries that perform culturally while also providing
meaningful ecological and environmental services in a regionally appropriate way -
Answer-environmental imperatives
cultural rules stifle the creative impulses of many designers - Answer-false
"in an era of rapid environmental change, visual biases and aesthetic traditions are used
to slow landscape transformation" is this a positive or a negative result of cultural rules?
- Answer-positive
functionalism addresses the activities and functions for a physical site or for a building
with the additional benefit of a qualitative overlay that creates inspired designs and
moved culture forward - Answer-false
about when was the name "landscape architecture" coined - Answer-mid 19th century
A landscape architecture internship is required before taking the landscape architecture
registration exam - Answer-true
the knowledge, skills, and problem-solving processes of a landscape architect are
applicable in just about any facet of life - Answer-true
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
which of the elements below lead to a successful design by a landscape architect -
Answer-temporal
natural processes
aesthetics
physical
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