LBST 1105 Final Exam Study Guide
Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental purposes of the fireplace, according to Heschong
aesthetic device
A unique feature of the main staircase that leads to the "piano noble" or primary level in the Maison de Verre is
all of the above
The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by German Architect Mies Van der Rohe for the 1929 World Exposition, is
an "exhibition" itself
Lisa Heschong argues that....
As with all our other senses, there seems to be a simple pleasure that comes from using our thermal sense.
The two walls of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial are angled in such a way as to visually connect the
Lincoln memorial with the Washington monument
For Heschong, reference to the "four poster bed" depicts
a micro-climate and cozy retreat, a snug enclave where one was assured of finding warmth and comfort
For author Alain de Botton, "beauty" -once the central task of the architect- is today
a private imperative at the whim of the interests of individual designers and their preferences
Historically speaking, the porch swing on a american southern porch was
a thermal necessity, the most effective way to get a bit of cooling ventilation to relieve the heat
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 apparent virtues or good intentions of "Plan Voisin", proposed by Le Corbusier in 1925 for the city of Paris was
addressing overcrowding, disease, urban flight, and lack of green space
The characteristics and qualities of "coherence" in architecture are best described by the following terms
clarity, resolve, coinciding vocabularies
Alain de Botton is hyper-critical of "Plan Voisin" because, for him, Le Corbusier
forgot about the basic, fundamental relationship between architecture and human nature
Critics of the Ionic Villa in Regents Park, London (1990) by architects Q Terry and R Erith, identified the following problems of the building "except"
form reflects historicism
The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Mies Van der Rohe for the 1929 Wrold Exposition is comprised of
marble walls, chrome-plated steel columns and a flat roof
According to Alain de Botton, our domestic fittings, from door handles, to faucets, to our furniture, are
memorials to our identity
Heschong's concern with the air conditioner is its lack of
mythical or metaphysical quality
One of the revealing characteristics found in the plans of the Maison der Verre is
the excessive number of doors and door types, and stairs and stair types throughout the three story house
The horizontal quality of the Robie House is reinforced by
the expansive eaves, continuous window sills and thin mortar joints of the brick work
In "The Architecture of Happiness", what does Alain de Botton effectively mean by the title of Ch. 6, "the promise off a field"?
the future places we build will not be qualitatively inferior to the land it replaces
The Salginatobel Bridge, designed by Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart in 1930, falls into a subcategory of "beauty" referred to as
"elegance", in carrying out its act of resistance with grace and economy and strength
The concept of "coherence" in architecture was best understood by Alain de Botton when he read the essay
"The Tall Office Artistically Considered" by Louis Sullivan
The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven by architect Louis Kahn demonstrates the architectural virtue of
"balance", with its metallic exterior and concrete and wood interior
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 social ideals of a society.
The Radcliffe Ice Walls at Harvard University, designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh in 1988, is best described as
Environmental land art
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
What is architect and author Lisa Heschong referring to by the title of Ch. 2 - "delight"?
Thermal Liveliness
Employing methods of abstraction, Maya Lin, a 20-year old, 3rd year undergraduate Yale student, won the commission to design the
Vietnam Veteran's Memorial: the desire to remember unites our reasons for building
The "concept" for Villa Savoye, a weekend retreat in Poissy, France, designed by architect Le Corbusier, is
a "machine to live in"- where function rules, protecting against heat, cold, rain, thieves, and the inquisitive
One of the primary symbolic ideas Maya Lin had for the design of the Vietnam Veteran's memorial is
a "wound that is closed and healing"
The overall design intention, visually speaking, of the campus of UNCC represents
a comfortable homogeneity of coinciding styles
Visually speaking, the "Back Bay" of Boston represents
a comfortable homogeneity of coinciding styles
For Alain de Botton, the "house" is a psychological sanctuary and
a guardian of our identity, helping us remember who we are
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
Like the house in north London described by Alain de Botton, the English cottage of 1925 by J Bastacnshury visually represents
an identity crisis, an uncomfortable patchwork of contrasting styles
Public baths in Ancient Rome, such as the Baths of Caracalla were
an integral part of everyday life and signified public health and cleanliness
Heschong describes the southern italian bakery on a winters day
as a social condenser, a place to meet and gossip, for the ovens made it the warmest place in town
Karen Terry's house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, designed by architect David Wright, is an example of a house
attuned to the sun and earth, with an air temperature flux as great as 20 degrees per day
Why does Alain de Botton ask us to give special attention to the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us?
because, at the end of the day, they are the causes of both our happiness and misery
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
According to Alain de Botton, buildings are not simply visual objects without any connection to concepts, but rather
buildings speak - on topics that can readily be discerned
The design of Maison de Verre in 1931, located on the left bank of Paris, France, and designed by Pierre Chareau with Bernard Bijvoet and Louis Dalbet, was a collaboration between a
carpenter, architect, and steel fabricator
According to Alain de Botton, for over 1000 discontinuous years in history of the west, a "beautiful building" was synonymous with
classical building, with its symmetrical order, white stone columns and large portico
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
When designing the contemporary Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan, architect Junya Ishigami wanted to
create a building where it isn't clear if there are any rules at all
The publication of encyclopedie by Dennis Diderot
defines "beauty"
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
In reference to Ch. 3, Alain de Botton, argues that
even something as diminutive as light switches or front styles, we may well detect "well developed personalities"
The Catalina House, designed by architect Rick Joy in the Sonoran Desert, is predominantly built out of
exposed rammed earth walls
According to Alain de Botton, described as the end of Ch 5, "to design" means
forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know
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 primary architectural characteristic of Maison de Verre is the use of
glass block as a screen or modern veil 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 or 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 decentralized fireplace
For Alain de 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
Which of the following is not one of the architectural features of Villa Savoye, designed by architect Le Corbusier, completed in 1931
load bearing structural walls
In most Mediterranean countries, according to Heschong, the custom of an evening promenade, or paseo, developed becuse
of the pleasent natural coolness of the shaded public streets and squares in the summers 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
For Alain de Botton, the large undifferentiated glass skyscrapers of the 20th century makes clear that
our love for "order" is not without limit
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 to each other:
physiological and aesthetic
The Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland, designed by architect Peter Zumthor in 1996,
presents a series of hot and cool pools to move in and out of to stimulate ones thermal senses
The design concept of the National 9/11 memorial of architect Michael Arad is
reflecting absence
Lisa Heschong draws our attention to 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
which of the following is "not" one of the thermal strategies outlined by author Lisa Heschong in Ch. 1, Necessity:
refraction
Heschong argues 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 Tavone, Italy, completed in 1985, designed by Herzog de Meuron architects weaves two aesthetic strands
rustic coherence and rational geometry
"Architectural Parlante" refers to
speaking architecture or architecture that explains its own identity
What does Alain de Botton mean by "buildings are choirs rather than soloists?
that buildings have the capacity to account for beautiful consonance as well as dissension and discord
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
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
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 a basic and physiological need as food but that it's not simply a matter of keeping warm or cool
The walls of the "gardens of Islam" emphasize the difference between...
the "cool" garden within the "hot"desert without
The significance of the Naugatuck High School in Bridgewater, NJ by architects McKim, Mead and White is
the adaptation of a building designed in the tradition of a classical Greek Temple on a sloping site
For Lisa Heschong, the empty tea pot appears to have a sense of warmth about itself illustrates the idea that
the association between an object and our thermal well being may be semiconcious and unconcious
Based on the title of his book, Alain de Botton also argues that
the cause of both our happiness and our misery is directly correlated with the quality and character of our built environment
Alain de Botton argues that
the causes of both our happiness and our misery is directly correlated with the quality of our built environment
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
In reference to Ch. 1, according to Vitruvius - roman architect, engineer and author of De Architectura
the discovery of fire originally gave rise to the "coming together of men, to deliberative assembly"
What is meant by, "challenge facing ordinary home-builders today is no different from that which faced the architects of Chartres?"
the human desire to feel good about the spaces we inhabit
In "The Architecture of Happiness," one of the primary arguments author Alain de Botton makes is
the indelible connection between our identity (who we are) and place (where we are)
In "The Architecture of Happiness," the primary argument by author Alain de Botton in Ch 1, "significance of architecture", is
the indelible connection between our identity (who we are) and place (where we are)
Andrea Palladio's "The Four Books of Architecture" (1570) represents
the most influential attempt to systematically unpack the secrets of successful buildings
The question, "in what style shall we build?" the title of Ch 2 In the Architecture of Happiness- refers to
the proliferation of architectural styles in the "confused age" reflecting the private judgement of architects run amok
Alain de Botton's stark comparison of the Westminster branch of McDonald's and the Westminster Cathedral signifies
the role of "place" and its capability to invoke concepts of very differing natures
The mid 19th century streets of Paris, such as Rue de Rivoli or Rue de Castiglione, are characterized by
the spectacle of precision and an impression of beauty tied to the qualities of regularity and uniformity
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"
Prairie style buildings, a distinctively American architecture developed by Frank Lloyd Wright, echoed
the wide, flat, treeless expanse of the Great Plains
In writing about the value of the "presence and character" of architecture, Alain de Botton describe all of the following except,
the winding serpentine walls in the Piazza San Marco in Florence conveys, "fluidity and strength"
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 a thermal pleasure from the breeze passing across the body created from the fans above
The value of "abstraction" in art, including architecture, is its ability
to be open to a range of thoughts, interpretations, and emotions
From a psychology perspective, Author Alain de Botton argues that we need "home"
to compensate for our vulnerability
The choice of using polished black granite for the finished surface of the Vietnam 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 Alain 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 large ideas can be communicated in chunks of stone, wood, strings, or plaster, as well as in words
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
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
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
