EXAM JAV 152 SAMPLE
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Final Exam JAV152 13 April 2021 Total points: 100
Answer 5 out of 7 questions. Each question is worth 20 points.
Each answer should be between 250 and 400 words.
If you are referencing a course reading please mention it in the text as (last name, page number
). You do not have to make footnotes.
You will get a zero on any answer which contains copied text (including from your own lecture responses and/or assignments). 1. In “Mapping a Di
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erent Archipelago” (LEC 16 BARBER ET AL), Philip Goad writes in relation to Australian architecture and climate: “As a general rule, adjustment took two paths: either a battle against or a negotiated path with climate and environment.” This description does apply to architecture elsewhere as well. Using examples from the course, describe these two forms of adjustment in architecture since 1945.
2. Detroit’s population started to decline in the 1950s, Copenhagen’s population in the 1970s. Compare and contrast how both cities have evolved since then.
3. Describe Frank Lloyd’s Wright’s Taliesin West in environmentalist terms.
4.Compare and contrast the planning of the new cities of Chandigarh and Brasilia, addressing their architecture, urban planning, and political symbolism.
5. Land art is often destructive but it can also raise awareness of the values of the natural environment. Using examples from the course, evaluate the environmental significance of this art movement.
6. Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid (LEC 6 BRENNER SCHMID) use the term “planetary urbanization” to describe the present way in which humans inhabit the world. Using examples from the course, explain how this concept of planetary urbanization helps to understand cities and city planning.
7. If you were to make a book called Neo-Avantgardes in Architecture
, and you could put one image on the cover, what would you select? Explain why.
Explain why = give reasons/arguments
Describe = recount the main facts
Evaluate = formulate arguments pro and contra
Compare and contrast = examine similarities and di
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