Arch 100 Final Exam-QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE
Who proposed a neighborhood of manufactured "Wichita houses" that could be shipped in
a mailing tube?
Buckminster Fuller
Viennese Architect, Otto Wagner, divided building methods into two basic types.
One was where stones sit on top of other stones, called " ------- "
The other was thin panels on a structural frame, called " ---------"
1. Renaissance Construction
2. Modern construction
Gottfried Semper explored a link between:
Technologies and objects connected to culture and place
What realization did Philip Johnson make while living in his 'Glass House'?
He hated sleeping in a glass box
According to Laugier, the classical elements used in a building's design should always:
Perform a structural role
At the Cathedral of Milan, Italian builders adopted some gothic features like spiky-spires
and pinnacles. However, they did not use flying buttresses. Why?
It's a hotter climate, so they wanted the building cooler, not brighter
, According to Vitruvius, the details on a Doric temple:
Were a memory (or echo) of the first wooden temples
The phenomenology of Martin Heidegger suggests that 'good' architecture should:
Consider human subjectivity and experience
Constructing a building ENTIRELY out of cut stone makes it hardest to:
Create large interior spaces
Most ancient architecture was made from permanent materials, like stone and marble.
False
According to Carlo Lodoli, the classical vocabulary demonstrates the correct way to
express a building material through design.
False
Traditional Chinese wood construction methods (PARTIALLY WRONG)
1. Were designed to support heavy roofs
2. Were passed down by oral tradition among ancient builders
3. Remained tight in high humidity
FOR SURE: used elaborate carpentry and bracketing
Which of the following are typical of Gothic cathedrals' stone "skeletons"?
1. structural bays
2. ribbed vaults
3. flying buttresses
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE
Who proposed a neighborhood of manufactured "Wichita houses" that could be shipped in
a mailing tube?
Buckminster Fuller
Viennese Architect, Otto Wagner, divided building methods into two basic types.
One was where stones sit on top of other stones, called " ------- "
The other was thin panels on a structural frame, called " ---------"
1. Renaissance Construction
2. Modern construction
Gottfried Semper explored a link between:
Technologies and objects connected to culture and place
What realization did Philip Johnson make while living in his 'Glass House'?
He hated sleeping in a glass box
According to Laugier, the classical elements used in a building's design should always:
Perform a structural role
At the Cathedral of Milan, Italian builders adopted some gothic features like spiky-spires
and pinnacles. However, they did not use flying buttresses. Why?
It's a hotter climate, so they wanted the building cooler, not brighter
, According to Vitruvius, the details on a Doric temple:
Were a memory (or echo) of the first wooden temples
The phenomenology of Martin Heidegger suggests that 'good' architecture should:
Consider human subjectivity and experience
Constructing a building ENTIRELY out of cut stone makes it hardest to:
Create large interior spaces
Most ancient architecture was made from permanent materials, like stone and marble.
False
According to Carlo Lodoli, the classical vocabulary demonstrates the correct way to
express a building material through design.
False
Traditional Chinese wood construction methods (PARTIALLY WRONG)
1. Were designed to support heavy roofs
2. Were passed down by oral tradition among ancient builders
3. Remained tight in high humidity
FOR SURE: used elaborate carpentry and bracketing
Which of the following are typical of Gothic cathedrals' stone "skeletons"?
1. structural bays
2. ribbed vaults
3. flying buttresses
