Landscape Architecture 371 Exam 1 Iowa State 2024/2025 with correct answers
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Why were small buildings or temples, sometimes called "follies," placed in English Landscape Gardens by their owners? correct answers-They demonstrated an owner's wealth because they were buildings without a functional purpose.
-They helped create scenes that looked like landscape paintings by Cla...
Why were small buildings or temples, sometimes called "follies," placed in English Landscape Gardens by
their owners? correct answers-They demonstrated an owner's wealth because they were buildings
without a functional purpose.
-They helped create scenes that looked like landscape paintings by Claude Lorraine and similar artists.
-The building referenced classical cultures that the English people and culture admired.
-As visual focal points, they helped move people through the garden.
Who designed Stourhead? correct answersHenry Hoare
What is an allegory? correct answersA narrative with a meaning associated with it.
Kent was a painter before he became a landscape gardener. correct answersTrue
What are the principle's of Capability Brown's landscape design? correct answers-Don't add
buildings/follies
-No gardens... if you've got 'em, hide 'em
-No plowing (or agricultural fields)
-Use sinuous form in your landscape
-No fences (or edges)
-Use a ha-ha (instead of a fence)
-Sweep the lawn... right up to the house
-Contour the land
-Manipulate the shoreline... irregular shape in plan
-Plant, plant, plant (in clumps)
, Norman Newton thinks that Capability Brown's design is not perfect, but concludes that some parts are
better. What does he think are the better parts of Brown's redesign? correct answers-The creation of
large, continuous and sinuous lakes.
-Remodeling the land to create pictorial composition of pastoral scenery.
Was Rousham a new design by Kent? correct answersNo, William Kent redesigned Rousham.
Capability Brown believed a landscape designer could improve the work of nature. correct answersTrue.
Brown's ultimate goal is "the best we can do is to improve nature."
What are the three graces? correct answersPainting, poetry, gardening
What is Alexander Pope famous for saying? correct answersAll gardening is landscape painting.
What is beautiful? correct answersSmooth, regular, delicate, harmonious.
What is sublime? correct answersMakes you feel awed, thrilled, and maybe even overwhelmed. This
cannot be man-made!
What did Rousseau believe about humans? correct answers-Humans are inherently (born) good; this is
our natural state.
-Humans become corrupted by the institutions of society.
-Nature is a source of virtue, and by being close to nature, we are more likely to be virtuous.
Did English landscape gardens (English picturesque landscapes) have Chinese elements? correct
answersYes, these were called Kew Gardens.
Repton diverged from his predecessor, Brown, by... correct answersMaking landscapes that were useful
to people.
Which is most like a sublime landscape? correct answersA range of mountains (like the Rocky
Mountains).
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