ARC 308 Test 3 Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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ARC 308
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ARC 308
In their chapter on "The Order of Rooms" the authors of The Place of Houses
discuss the Brick county house by Mies van der Rohe which we also looked at in
class in the early part of the semester. Which of the following best describes
their observations?
It has no discrete rooms, only a sing...
ARC 308 Test 3 Questions and
Correct Answers the Latest Update
In their chapter on "The Order of Rooms" the authors of The Place of Houses
discuss the Brick county house by Mies van der Rohe which we also looked at in
class in the early part of the semester. Which of the following best describes
their observations?
✓ It has no discrete rooms, only a single space which slips and slides through the house
and eve, by an outward extension of the walls, to the outside
In the chapter titled "Ours" in The Place of Houses the authors describe some
of their works as "aedicular houses" by which they mean:
✓ houses based on a four poster form with roof added, which symbolizes a spiritual
center
At the beginning of their chapter on the Sea Ranch the authors of The Place of
Houses discuss the Sea Ranch Condominiums which we also looked at in class.
Which of the following is NOT consistent with their observations?
✓ The image of the building was developed by carefully coordinated consensus with the
developers and other designers like Lawrence Halprin and Joseph Esherich who
together established a set of design guidelines based on a mutually agreed upon
"style" before any actual design occurred
Which of the following is NOT a description of the town of Santa Barbara as
✓ The town still has an apparent coherence that owes nearly everything to the
deliberate imposition of an English Tudor style on its main streets and public
buildings when they were rebuilt after the earthquake of 1955
Which of the following is NOT a description of the condominiums at Sea Ranch
as observed by the authors of The Place of Houses?
✓ The condominium building was the initial attempt, in the larger development, to
assert individual privacy over a community
✓
✓ or
✓
✓ All of the dwellings are identical both for economy and to contribute an egalitarian
sense to the community
In the "Epilogue" chapter of The Place of Houses there is a thorough description
of the Moore/Andersson compound here in Austin (one of several of Charles
Moore's own homes illustrated in the book). Which of the following is NOT an
observation made there?
✓ It is a crisp, clean modern statement that demonstrates Moore's less-is-more
aesthetic (sometimes dubbed "Less is Moore")
In the chapter titled "Four More Houses" near the end of The Place of Houses
there is an extensive description of Charles Moore's own house in Austin. Which
of the following is an observation made about it?
✓ Though the plan of the compound is organized internally by an ellipse that joins the
two houses and the office around a lap pool, the ellipse is barely discernable outside
Moore's own house
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