LBST 1105 CHRIS JARRETT UNCC
Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental purposes of the fireplace, according to Heschong:
aesthetic device
The d House in Brittany, France, designed by lode architecture, is an example of contemporary architecture that consists of
an elevated rustic wood box above (private spaces) and an open modern space below (public spaces) with contemporary fireplace
Why does Alan de Botton ask us to give special attention to the kinds of wals, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us?
Because, at the end of the day, they are the causes of both our happiness and misery
The design of Maison de Verre of 1931, designed by Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet and Louis Dalbet, was a collaboration between a
Interior designer, architect and metal worker
The contemporary mobile home represents which type of thermal strategy
Migration
What do the St. Louis Arch by architect Eero Sarrinen and the Salginatobel Bridgeby civil engineer Robert Maillart, have in common?
a quality of grace, economy and strength, in both form and material integrity
Polished metal sculptures "Cloud Gate" and "56 Leonard" by Indian-born artist Anish Kapoor represents
a refined example of two of de Botton's architectural virtues:eleganceandbalance
With regards to culture and climate, the Great Stone Hindu Temple in Southern India is an example of
a thermal place and a sacred place
The long history of architectural design can be described as
a trajectory of moving from constraints to no constraints; from visual laws controlled by the nobility to no visual laws
The cover image of Alan de Botton's book 'The Architecture of Happiness includes
a whimsical miniature plastic horse in front of a fuscia-painted wall designed by Luis Barragon
The "visual" characteristics and qualities of "coherence" in architecture are best described by the following terms:
clarity, resolve, coinciding vocabularies
According to Alain de Botton in Ch.4 , our domestic fittings, from door handles, to faucets, to our furniture, are
memorials to our identity
The large-scale, mid-20thc. urban housing project in North St. Louisdesignedby architect Minoru Yamasaki was
modeled onrules ofabstraction as aformalaesthetic approach
Heschong's concern with the air conditioner is its lack of
mythical or metaphysical quality
The horizontal quality of the Robie House is reinforced by
the expansive eaves, continuous window sills and thin mortar joints of the brick work
The Barcelona Pavilion is comprised of
marble walls, chrome-plated steel columns and a flat roof
the visual concept of the Desert Nomad House, designed by Rick Joy of Tucson, Arizona is composed of
3 buildings, each having a large glass plate window with a different orientation that views the landscape beyond
The site strategy of the Catalina House, designed by architect Rick Joy in the Sonoran Desert, is
3 forms, arranged like a wagon train around a fragile complex of saguaro cactuses, mesquite trees and burrowing fauna
According to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, the "essence of great architecture" was understood to reside in what was
Functionally unnecessary, meaning that function had no real role in defining quality or significance
The exterior of the Robie House by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908-1910 in Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago, is made of
Roman brick and limestone
The "pumpkin wall" in the neighborhood of Elizabeth in Charlotte
Signifies the cultural value of fire, ritual and community in the 21st century
What did Le Corbusier mean by, "We know longer have the money to erect historical souvenirs" in his book Toward a New Architecture?
That opulent, ornate and heroic buildings were no longer relevant to the needs of the industrial age
Employing methods of abstraction, one of the primary symbolic ideas Maya Lin had for the design of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial is
a "cut in the earth's surface"
The Barcelona Pavilion is all but the following
a "functionalist" retreat
The "concept" for Villa Savoye, a weekend retreat in Poissy, a suburb of Paris, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier, is
a "machine to live in"- where function rules, protecting against heat, cold, rain thieves and the inquisitive
According to author Lisa Heschong, the great, large public baths of ancient Rome are an example of
a "thermal place" that developed into an expression of the social ideals of a society
The overall design intention, visually speaking, of the campus of UNC Charlotte represents
a comfortable homogeneity of coinciding styles
For Alan de Botton, the "house" is a psychological sanctuary and
a guardian of our identity, helping us remember who we are
Alain de Botton's"visual criticism" of C20 Shepherd's Bush, a modern residential tower complex in London,is
a lack of variation(from bottom to top) of its windows or difference in size based on its cardinal orientation
Public baths in Ancient Rome, such as the Baths of Caracalla (AD 212-216), were
an integral part of everyday life and signified public health and cleanliness
An 'architectural education" today has moved from a "traditional, linear" model to
an intertwined, integrated model
Heschong describes the southern Italian bakery on a winter's day
as a "social condenser," a place to meet and gossip, for the ovens made it the warmest place in town
Lisa Heschong argues that
as with all our other senses, there seems to be a simple pleasure that comes from using our thermal sense
For Alain de Botton, why should it matter what our environment has to say to us?
because place communicates; where we are has everything to do with how we feel and who we aspire to be
Maison der Verre or "Glass House" by Pierre Chareau is located
between a paved, semi-public courtyard and a private lush garden
What is the similarity between Central Park in New York and Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte?
both are great urban rooms but at very different scales
for de Botton , access "to our authentic, creative and spontaneous self" is determined, to a humbling extent,
by the places we happen to be in, by the color of the bricks, height of the ceilings and layout of the streets
According to Alan de Botton for over 1,000 discontinuous years in the history of the West, a "beautiful building" was synonymous with a
classical building, with its symmetrical order, white stone columns and large portico
All of the following are visual attributes of theKanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan, architect Junya Ishigami, "except"
clear sense of order and rules that govern the design
The Royal Crescent in Bath, England, designed by architect John Wood the Younger in 1767-1774, is
composed of one great curvilinear building, forming the edge of a great urban room
Dehumidifying the air
controlling the thermal environment
Placing an image of a classical revival house in Halifax, North Carolina side by side with the contemporary house in Santa Monica, California
depicts different architectural histories and aesthetic sensibilities of different regions and cultures
Author Alain de Botton points out that there are fundamentally two choices or directions facing those who disturb or alter the land:
desecration or inspiration
The Radcliffe Ice Walls at Harvard University, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh in 1988, is best described as
environmental land art
In reference to Ch. 3 Alan de Botton argues that
even something as diminutive as light switches or font styles, we may detect "we developed personalities"
The Catalina House, is predominantly built out of
exposed rammed earth walls
The primary architectural characteristic of Maison de Verre is the use of
glass block as a screen or modern view between the exterior and interior of the home
In Ch. 4 on "Sacredness," a solar house, Heschong argues, is ultimately about
growing more aware that the sun renews us in an almost religious and spiritual way
"Self-knowledge," the 5th virtue of architecture presented by Alain de Botton, is best described as
having enough humility to interrogate oneself about ones desires
Which of the following is not one of the eight design principles of the Prairie Style created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright:
high ceilings and a decentralized fireplace
For Alainde Botton ,in the "deepest cultural sense," whether at the scale of a city, house or desk, we "build"
in response to a desire to remember, to keep a record of what matters to us
Alain de Botton points out in Ch.5 that the difference between historical and contemporary works of architecture is
in the past, there were laws governing beauty, and today, there are no laws governing beauty
Alain de Botton favors the Gugulun House in Versam, Switzerland (southeast of Zurich) by architect Peter Zumthor because
it shows us how we might straddle eras and countries, holding on to our own regions while drawing on the modern
According to Alain de Botton,
just as a single word can change the whole sense of a poem, so too, can a curved brick lintel change the impression of a house
In most Mediterranean countries, according to Heschong, the custom of an evening promenade, or paseo, developed because
of the "pleasant natural coolness" of the shaded public streets and squares in the summer's evening
Like that of a Victorian Parlor or living room circa 1840-1900, Lisa Heschong argues that
one can have a thermal sense or feeling of a room by the materials employed in the furnishings
What does the reference to the plough represent in Ch.6 in "The Architecture of Happiness"?
one of the early devices that began to reshape the environment as it once existed
The five "virtues" of building outlined by Alain de Botton in "The Architecture of Happiness," are
order, balance, elegance, coherence, and self-knowledge
Lisa Heschong's primary thesis of Chapter 3: "Affection" in her book, Thermal Delight in Architecture, is
people's customs in a particular culture are often suited or well-integrated to the local climate or thermal need
Passive solar design homes may include all of the following "except"
photovoltaic panels
According to Heschong, what are the two reasons for having "thermal extremes" next two each other:
physiological and aesthetic
A unique feature of the main staircase that leads to the "piano noble" or primary level of Maison der Verre is
pivoting and sliding metal screen, use of industrial rubber, stair treads can be lifted to be cleaned
The Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland, designed by architect Peter Zumthor in 1996,
presents a series of hot and cold pools to move in an out of to stimulate ones thermal senses
use of all of our extremely sophisticated environmentalcontrol systems is directed to
produce standard comfort zones
Thermal energy strategies (5)
reduced exposure/change in surface area and exposure migration change in rate of activity reflection and retention
The design concept of the National 9/11 Memorial by Architect Michael Arad is
reflecting absence
Lisa Heschong draws our attention to the "creativity" of the billowing white robes worn in Arab cultures because they present an example of
reflecting away the sun's radiation while helping to fan air past the body, increasing evaporative cooling
Heschong argues that the association of "thermal comfort" with people and place are reinforced through
ritual-through using a place at a set time, in a specific manner... for example the way Southerners historically used their porches
The Stone House in Tavole, Italy, completed in 1985, designed by Herzog de Meuron Architects, weaves two aesthetic strands:
rustic coherence and rational geometry
Architect Louis Kahn demonstrates the architectural virtue of "balance" in all of the following waysin the Yale Center for British Art "except"
soft curvilinear brick-faced exterior and orthogonal white-plasterinterior
"Architectural Parlante" refers to
speaking architecture or architecture that explains its own identity
What does de Botton mean when he writes "we suffer from a carnival of architecture?"
that every architect has a theory of his own
Whether the Japanese fan or the fan depicted by British artist Marie Stillman in her self-portrait, Heschong argues
that social customs, even from the minute scale of the gesture, often involve a thermal aspect
Near the end of Ch. 5, what does Alain de Botton mean by "design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know?"
that the 'mechanisms behind our reflexes'prevent us from acknowledging and seeing the complexity and mystery of life
What does Alain de Botton mean by "our love of order is not without limit"?
that the identical, relentless repetition of visual elementsexemplified in the modern glass skyscraper is oppressive
What does de Botton mean by the phrase "buildings speak?"
that the visual expression, language, form, and material of architecture speaks of topics that can be readily discerned
What does Alain de Botton mean by "beauty is the child of the coherent relationship between parts"?
that the visual resulting attribute of coherence in the midst of visual variation is a virtue
What does author and architect Lisa Heschong mean by the title "Necessity" (Ch.1) in her book "Thermal Delight in Architecture"?
that thermal comfort is as basic a physiological need as food but that it's not simply a matter of keeping warm or cool
What did American architect Louis Sullivan mean by "many new tall buildings are in danger of stylistic incoherence"?
that unabashed visual homogeneity will render the built environment meaningless
In reference to "Plan Voisin" by Le Corbusier, what does de Botton mean by "bad architecture is as much a failure of psychology as of design"?
that understandingthe deepest aspects of human natureis central to making good places
What does Alain de Botton mean when he writes,"we need a home in the psychological sense to compensate for our vulnerability"?
that we need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances
The walls of the "Garden of Islam" emphasize the difference between
the "cool" garden within and the "hot" desert without
In "The Architecture of Happiness", Alain de Botton argues that
the causes of both our happiness and our misery is directly correlated with the quality of our built environment
in "the architecture of happiness," one of the primary arguments author Alan de Botton makes in Ch. 3 is
the communicative power of all objects
The primary idea of Ch. 4, "Sacredness," in Thermal Delight in Architecture is
the cultural significance of the hearth and the ritual customs associated with getting warm or cool
Castle Ward, erected in 1767 in Northern Ireland for Lord Bangor and Lady Bligh, is an example of
the dilemma in what style shall we build, with its classical from facade and its gothic back
In reference to Ch. 1, according to Vitruvius - roman architect,engineer and author of De Architectura,
the discovery of fire originally gave rise to "deliberative assembly, as well as environmental purpose or function
In "The Architecture of Happiness," what does Alain de Botton effectively mean by the title of Ch. 6, "the promise of a field"?
the future places we build will not be qualitatively inferior to the land it replaces
What does Barbara Hepworths "Two Segments and a Sphere" and Mies Van Der Rohe's "Barcelona Pavilion" have in common?
the incorporation of a "plinth"
The primary argument by author Alain de Botton in Ch.1 "Significant of Architecture," is
the indelible connection between our identity (who we are) and place (where we are)
The failure of Pruitt-Igoe Housing in St. Louis signaled all of the following except
the risein population and in-town affordable housing
One of the most significant architectural details in the small but highly celebrated Thorncrown Chapel is
the steel connector at the intersection of the diagonal framing
Eastgate Center in Zimbabwe, Africa, an office and shopping complex designed by Mike Pearce in 1996, is based on
the structure of a termite mound, with its ability to "regulate temperature" and "self cool"
One of the most beautiful, poetic qualities of the Catalina House is
the way daylight softly illuminates the raw, natural, and unadorned walls
Prairie style buildings, a distinctively American architecture developed by Frank Lloyd Wright, echoed
the wide, flat, treeless expanse of the Great Plains
The gradual ramp leading up to the opening in the wall on the "solarium" level of Villa Savoye in Poissy, a suburb of Paris, France, enabled
the young, wheel chair-bound child of the owners to access, view and reflect upon the beauty of the French countryside
Lisa Heschong points out that in a typical front or back porch on a hot, humid day in the South,
there's thermal pleasure from the breeze passing across the body created from the fans above
What is architect and author Lisa Heschong referring to by the title of Ch. 2-"delight"?
thermal liveliness
The value of "abstraction" in art, including architecture, is its ability
to be open to a range of thoughts, interpretations and emotions
The choice of using polished black granite for the finished surface of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial was
to create a highly reflective surface, so that the living and the dead would appear together on the wall
According to Lisa Heschong, the use of our sophisticated, contemporary "environmental control systems" in buildings is directed to one end:
to produce "standard"comfort zones
According to Lisa Heschong, our tendency as a culture in modern day America has been
to remove thermal conditions as a determinant of behavior,keeping our living conditions "thermally uniform"
For Alan de Botton the "task of architecture- ultimately- is
to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential
For Alain de Botton, the gift of the most talented sculptors has been
to teach us that that large ideas can be communicated in chunks of stone, wood, strings or plaster, as well as in words
The Jenga Towerin New York (2017) by architects Herzog & deMeuron is characterized by all of the following "except"
transparent glass skyscraper with identical qualities at the top of the building as the bottom
Alain de Botton presents the Royal Crescent in Bath, England, as a demonstration of
turning a banal, ordinary patch of ground into a place of inspiration and beauty
Visually speaking, Alain de Botton would consider a typical commercial street in Los Angeles as
uncomfortable patchwork of contrasting styles
The exterior walls of the Desert Nomad House designed by Rick Joy of Tucson, Arizona, is composed of
unfinished steel plate, resulting in a rusted, reddish surface that weathers over time
What did Le Corbusier mean by, "We must always remember that the fate of cities are decided in the Town Hall"?
unlike the times of Louis XIV, in a more collective, democratic era, planning decisions are made by governing councils
In Ch. 3, Alan de Botton argues that
what visual objects (from tables to buildings) "say to us: is as interesting to us as "how the perform" their material function
"Beauty" of passive solar design is
when the building itself serves as its own thermal (heating and cooling) system
Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, AR, designed by Architect Faye Jones in 1980, uses
wooden tensile members in an overhead cross-lattice system that speaks to the fragility of the site
One week following the Great Fire of London, architect Christopher Wren's 1666 plan of London
would have reshaped the city in the image of Paris or Rome
