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When becoming an architecture what are the 3 E's? - correct answer
✔✔education, experience and examination
Significance of architecture - correct answer ✔✔A journey through the philosophy
and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our
identities and our places.
De Botton argues that the causes of both our happiness and our misery is... -
correct answer ✔✔the quality of our built environment and other things.
Architecture is too often described as - correct answer ✔✔frivolous
Maison de Verre, Pierre Chareau, 1931, Paris, France - correct answer ✔✔House
for Doctors, Reflects the magical promise of 20th century, referred to as a lyrical
machine, tool for physical and psychological healing. Hygiene and precision.
Robert Rubin owns the house
Vierzehnheiligen Pilgrimage Church, Banz, Germany 1772 - correct answer
✔✔(Baroque Period, 1600-1750)
How do you define beauty? - correct answer ✔✔An unanswerable question.
, The creation of beauty, once viewed as the central task of the architect, has
quietly evaporated from serious professional discussion and retreated to a private
imperative.
>Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie, 1751-72 - correct answer ✔✔For much of history,
beauty was defined.
>UVA, Charlottesville, VA 1819 - correct answer ✔✔Thomas Jefferson, architect ---
Public education and opening up to the country
>World Trade Center, NY 2011 - correct answer ✔✔Skidmore OWings and Meril,
Architects
- "Copy as best as you can" (prior to this project), now its about pluralism.
>Columbia University, Manhattan, NY 1893-1913 - correct answer ✔✔-Beaux-Arts
architecture, the adoption of classical greek and roman stylistic vocabulary.
>Classical Style Buildings - correct answer ✔✔-Greeks gave birth to Classical Style,
the Romans copied and developed it.
>Classical Style furnishings - correct answer ✔✔The classical sensibility, was
applied to interiors, chairs, ceilings, beds and baths.
Manhattan Municipal Building, 1915 - correct answer ✔✔A beautiful high rise
building was synonymous with a Classical building.