Landscape Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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PLA - Professional Landscape Architect
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PLA - Professional Landscape Architect
The Modernist garden's architectural and artistic context - Answer-1. 1920's and 30's
2. Frank Lloyd Write and the Destruction of the Box
3. Modern Architecture (Bauhaus)
4. Modern Painting (impressionism to cubism and abstract expressionism)
FLW Influence - Answer-1.FLW created flowing spac...
Landscape Final Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
The Modernist garden's architectural and artistic context - Answer-1. 1920's and 30's
2. Frank Lloyd Write and the Destruction of the Box
3. Modern Architecture (Bauhaus)
4. Modern Painting (impressionism to cubism and abstract expressionism)
FLW Influence - Answer-1.FLW created flowing spaces and now the structure of a
building doesn't have to be at a corner. Destroying the Box and liberating the plan
2. changes the connection between indoors and outdoors. Now there are entire glass
walls and the ability to move freely through space
Bauhaus Influence - Answer-1. not based on the past
2. Latest in technology and materials
3. truth in what is happening now: form follows function
a. use should generate the form
4. landscape architects now challenge what he garden should be
Modernist Painting Influence - Answer-Impressionism to cubism to abstract
expressionism
Paris Exposition of 1925 - Answer-1. the first modern gardens were shown here:
Concrete Trees by Joel Moartel (1925)
2. Garden of Water and Light by Gabriel Guevrekian --> painting connection, pure
geometry. bright colors and textures. Looks like Kandinsky
Garden of Water and Light by Guevrekian (1925) - Answer-1. modernist garden
2. paris exposition
3. pure geometry
4. bright colors/ textures
5. looks like a Kandinsky Painting
Concrete Trees by Jan and Joel Martel (1925) - Answer-1. cubist modernist garden
2. paris art exhibition
Cubist Garden at Villa Noailles by Guevrekian (1927) - Answer-1. Modernist Garden
2.. No horticultural interest
3. composition of repetition
4. not necessarily occupiable
5. not a landscape architect, he is an artist
Fletcher Steele - Answer-1. transitional figure between the country place era and the
modern garden
, 2. attended Harvard
3. plays with modern landscape architecture and argues for it
4. innovative materials
5. Naumkeag Blue Stairs
a. country place estate but plays with modern ideas
Naumkeag Blue Stairs - Answer-1. 1926-1950
2. Country Place Estate, but plays with modern ideas
3. new materials (tubular steel)
4. blue steps with white birch trees
Roberto Burle Marx - Answer-1. Brazilian Landscape architect
2. approached landscape like a painter would
3. multi-use spaces
4. intersted in color and texture
5. bold patterns with plants
6. ringing nature back into the city
7. aerial views of work, pavement design
8. Copacabana Beach Boardwalk
Copacabana Beach - Answer-1. 1970
2. Portuguese Style
3. Paving in a painterly way
Christopher Tunnard - Answer-1. Book: Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1938)
2. modern architect like Le Corbusier but has a problem with the big green lawn
3. We need to teach architects about landscape
a. Barcelona is a good example of what we need to be doing because it defines space
outside with inner and outer continuous walls or planes
b. Japanese Gardens
Characteristics of the modernist garden and difference to early professional country
place era projects - Answer-1. characteristics of the modernist garden:
a. Post WW2 new idea about recreation with an emerging middle class and overall
access to cheaper materials
2. Early Professional Country Place Era projects:
a. wealthy landscape influenced by a rediscovery of Italian Renaissance Landscape.
they were over the top
Tommy Church Book - Answer-1. Gardens are for People (1955)
2. outside landscape can be a place for living. indoor spaces moving outside as places
for eating/lounging
3. California Style
4. designed single house residents
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