QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
one of the most important reasons that primitive man developed settlements and communities
was - Correct answers✔✔working together to grow food crops was easier than searching for
edible plants
many of the striaght lines and squares found in agricultrue were developed because - Correct
answers✔✔they were found to be an efficient way to control crops and produce better results
The principle designer of New York's central park has been called "the father of Landscape
architecture" he had no formal training in his field. who was he - Correct answers✔✔Frederick
law olmsted
A famous English landscape garden designer was known for his habit of saying a place had
"capabilities" who was he? - Correct answers✔✔Lancelot brown
In design, the "golden ratio" is a mathematical way to: - Correct answers✔✔attempt to describe
growth and nature
In the late 1800s and early 1900s it was generally believed that contact with the natural
landscape was --- - Correct answers✔✔essential to human health and happiness
One of the most famous buildings of the 19th century was based on the design for a greenhouse,
and it was designed by an English gardener. This building was called ---- - Correct
answers✔✔crystal palace
, in the practice of landscape architecture which of the following would be LEAST likely to be
part of the landscape architects responsibility - Correct answers✔✔calculating structural wind
loads for hurrican resistant buildings
The first complete program of landscape architecture was founded in 1901 at --- - Correct
answers✔✔harvard university
An important pioneer of modern landscape architecture, who wrote "landscape for living" in
1950 was - Correct answers✔✔Garret Eckbo
Landscape Character means - Correct answers✔✔the apparent unity of natural elements in an
area
Velcro is an example of a product designed through the use of - Correct answers✔✔biomimicry
The taj mahal in india is an example of the design concept - Correct answers✔✔imposing mans
control or sense of order over the natural landscape
An important figure in Landscape Architecture in the Twentieth Century wrote that Landscape
Architects should bring all structures, activities and communities into harmonious relationship
with the "want-to-be" of the land ......into harmony with the living earth. Who was he? - Correct
answers✔✔John O simmonds
The oldest gardens of the Orient were the work of painters, poets and philosophers. Their
approach was to consider______________________________ - Correct answers✔✔the
relationship of man to earth