You have been provided with six (6) topics. Four (4) of these will form the basis for final exam questions; you will get to choose to write on three of the four questions on the final examination; you can discard whichever one (1) of the four questions provided on the exam that you don’t like.
The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, May 19thth. The exam questions will be posted at 12:00 a.m. and you will have an entire day (24 hours) to respond and submit your answers; the exam is open book/open notes.
It is recommended that you prepare answers to all six of these topics in outline form in advance of the exam, though your responses during the exam will be in narrative form (complete sentences). The outlines will help you organize your thoughts for the exam. Your answers need to incorporate information available in your textbook, assigned readings on Blackboard, the documentary film on Pruitt-Igoe, and class lectures.
You will need to support your answer by citing specific works, selected only from those either listed in your course outline from Weeks 9-14 and/or the subject of the documentary film; credit may not be given for works cited that are not listed on either the course outline or not the subject of the documentary film. You will be asked to support your answer to each question with a discussion of three (3) works.
You will need to Identify each work with the following information: name of the building/site; architect/landscape architect, if known; location of the building/site, date of the building/site. Make sure your spelling is accurate, since points will be removed for misspelled names and places. Also your essay should include appropriate terminology, if given in course lecture or textbook.
Do not discuss the same work of architecture or urban design in more than one question. Also don’t support an answer with more than one work by the same architect or landscape architect in the same question.
1) Changing attitudes about architectural modernism, with three architectural works with one example each from 1920s-1930s, 1950s, and 1960s-90s.
2) Ideas about nature/the environment as expressed in architecture
3) Architecture emblematic of community
4) The influence of developments in transportation on architecture
5) The different approaches/ideas manifest in three works of residential architecture
6) Ideas of health as expressed in architecture
